"Suffocation" from water magic with Chaos Innoculation

Lvl 95 Monk with CI, was walking along collecting stuff left over from a breach, ran into a group of basic mobs, one of which was the water shaman that sends slowing / damaging water magic. He sent the big hoop water thing at me which slows you down followed by the ball thing that damages.

Died immediately as I was trying to dodge roll, watched replay, had 9k shield (buffed by grim reaper) and 1 life, and it just said "You died", 1 life went to zero.

In the replay it is clear I still have 9k shield, happy to send the replay - not sure how to attach it in the forum.

Just wandering if it's a feature or a bug, should this water magic be able to punch through the shield and suffocate when you are playing with 1 life.

Great game guys, keep up amazing work!

This isn't actually a bug. That drowning orb doesn't deal damage, it just kills you automatically if you stand in it for like three seconds, and that's how it's intended to work. There's no counter to this for any build other than not being in the orb.