Item stats confusion

So, while I’ve found that I really like the game, specially as a D2 fan, I feel this game makes a poor job of properly conveying item stats. It has happened before, where I switch, say, an old weapon for a new one with what seems like better stats and the same augments and w/e yet my DPS takes a 1k hit.

More recently, I’ve found that switching the Death’s Life Seal for the Harvest Blade Seal makes me lose about 200 HP… and I have no clue why.

Perhaps anyone could enlighten me about what I’m missing? And perhaps add in anything else that I should keep in mind? This is the only gripe I have with this game tbh

Well first thing I can think of is to check every other equip slot. Death Lifes Seal increases your spirit and you are only at 222 from what I can see, maybe some other slot becomes unequiped because you no longer fulfill the required amount of spirit.

On a sidenote 90% of the time if you loose a stat that is not on the item its something like this

you lose 1k dps by replacing with a seemingly better item because probably the attack speeds differ. Hence why DPS. If you wanna see if you hit harder on HIT check your 2nd tab. DPS is a combination between attack speed and damage per hit.

EDIT: For example after i upgraded my weapons i took a 7k dps loss but now I do about double damage on hit,not to say twice the crit damages i was doing before

Now the reason you’re losing 200hp are you sure that by switching the 2 rings you don’t meet the requirements for another item which gave you those 200hp?

Okay, it the spirit loss was causing me to unequip my amulet, thanks for your help, I just figured that if I lost the requirements for an item, they would get unequipped. That’s what I get for playing at 7 am!

Thanks to you both. I’ll now try to pay more attention to my stat reqs.