My Armour Is Taking Away Health... Is That Supposed To Happen?

So I'm a level 45 assassin and I just got the legendary item "Winter's Essence" a pair of chain leggings.

So after resetting my skills to fit that of the requirements for that item I finally got to wear my 3rd legendary item. All I need is boots now.

But there's a problem. I noticed that I had lost health, then I saw it ticking down. I looked at my leggings in my inventory and found that it had -64 life regeneration on it. Is that normal? Because I'm currently losing like half a heart every what, 5-10 seconds? I don't wanna have to constantly be drinking all my potions...

I'm fine with armour limiting things like speed, max health etc... but actively DRAINING your health? That seems a little bit unfair. So is there a problem here or is that item just really bad?

 

well the items other ids are actually really really good, so it just there for balancing. what i usually do when i used to use it was swap it out for another similar leggings item and then switch back to winter's essence whenever im about to fight or smth

 

Many items have negative identifications for various forms of balancing. Also, don't reset your skill points just for a legendary. Stick with a build, and go with that, or else at the end of the game, you won't be able to do shit, and you'll be wondering why. And by "not do shit" I mean, you won't be able to kill bosses in endgame, you won't be able to kill basic mobs in an efficient enough time for grinding, and you'll kind of be giving yourself virtually 0 benefits. Just some advice, you don't have to follow it however, just a suggestion.

 

Well there's a problem there, I'm level 45... I have a lot of gear already, how do you just SWITCH to a build like that? Unless by that you mean go with your own build, which I could try. But I'd rather take a pre-existing build someone has made. I've taken a look at some but they're all geared towards ~ level 100 or so. Nothing on my level.

 

just try to find items with positive health regen to conter the negative from the leggings

 

What @Stupid Steelpid said, but my personal preference for builds is wait till your a higher level than 45 to start worrying about builds. Many people would disagree with me but I say don’t worry about it (and save your Blue Mask)

 

Ah ok, that makes sense.

But I don't have a Blue Mask... It's Winter's Essence

 

Can you send a picture of your Winter's essence?

 

Here it is. It's got a lot on it, but that negative health regen makes it almost impossible to wear constantly.

https://imgur.com/UPrkTSa

 

I know its not a Blue Mask, just a recommendation. Just if you want to wear the Winter’s Essence be sure to find those boots that you want that have a faster health regen than your negative health regen on the Essence. Or switch the helmet and/or cheatplate.

 

You can stack up a bunch of items with +Health Regen in order to counteract Winter's Essence. -64 HPR cannot be countered with one item, but get items with a lot of +HPR and +HPR% to try to mitigate it, and if your HPR is at least -10 it should not be a problem.

(also rip, max spell damage but absolutely crap health regen. If not for that, that would be godly)