Actually, I'd argue that in almost every case 1vs1 damroll is better than HP except in the case where you need time to land maledictions. 200hp is nice though because it gives you some staying power - but for 1vs1 if you take the same character and give them chilling or soul on almost every build chilling will net them more kills 1vs1.

It's not about +30% hp or +20% dam roll. It's about what types of fights you get into and what the usual problem is wherein you die or don't land the kill. I find it's very rare that you die within 200 hp of someone else and even in that case, you've hit someone *so many times* that 8 damroll clearly would've paid off over that amount of time. Your goal as a warrior is almost always to nudge the fight to where you will win in melee and then lag hopefully getting the person low enough to kill them in the lag or with a parting blow.

But since soul is defensive, it's great for when you *don't* want to fight and you're just trying like hell to land a stun or something or conversely you have heavy damage reduction that makes that 200hp feel like 600hp.