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Question About Life Steal and Life drinker Enchantment
voltomey
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Is this enchantment and the life steal stat added up together. Well what i am trying to ask is i have 10% life steal atm will adding a perfect Lifedrinker enchantment make it 18.8% life steal or is it a separate heal altogether
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Play smarter. They give us stealth, CC, escape powers and etc. for a reason.
Guess you won't be able to play like a Tank with Super DPS any longer.
Sadly, I believe this will affect GF's far more negatively than it will help them to be needed.
Sure, they will be more necessary in group game, as long as there is a competent DC there to keep the heals rolling. However, for the solo PvE GF, this will suck.
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TRs have a significantlly higher base deflect severity - 75% vs. 50% for everybody else.
So I'll pump deflect up as a first try, to mitigate as many hits taken as possible...
...also Cloak of Lathander / Seldarine suddenly look somewhat attractive.
Single-player oriented material, such as dailies and stuff, are still fairly easy to play -- at least in preview. The only real impact this would have is the multiplayer content such as dungeons or skirmishes, and as far as this thing goes, its a good change. A significant rise in the difficulty -- especially difficulty in regards to survival, makes party variation and team play all the more important.
Yes, in a sense its a change that is obviously directed towards restoring the (so-called) RPG trinity values of old, but I've never agreed to this weird 'modern trend' of treating it as some sort of evil to be avoided. The old 'trinity' method of 'heals, deals, and meatshields' is in essence a tried, tested, and solid method of portraying different roles and specializations within a RPG and it lies at the very foundation of the spirit of D&D itself.
Rather, this so-called 'modern-trend' of 'multi-role classes', is IMO simply another name given to the (in classic TRPG-jargon) munchkin builds which don't need any cooperation, don't need any help from others, and simply becomes the mary-sue of the story arc. At least in terms of PvE, you gotta admit that up to now, there isn't any real need for cooperation or team play at all.
I've often mentioned this, but in essence the PvE endgame we have is nothing but 5 people fighting individually, which just happen to be on the same map. There's no role diversion, there's no need for real cooperation, no consideration over which buffs can help out the team, etc etc.. in many cases you don't even need support builds at all (which essentially makes obsolete every class/any player who've built a real 'team build' and makes them totally useless).
The negative impact this would have, is ultimately, people will now need to "find tanks and heals first", like most of us who've been playing MMOGs have been used to for the past decade. The positive impact this would have, is that PvE could actucally become more fun, and diverse builds/classes/roles might finally be appreciated.
Of course, it still remains to be seen, but I consider it a step in the right direction.
I checked the enchant on preview and it seems to be different in mod 6
apparently now it adds extra damage 5% wd for lesses and life steal chance (1% for lesser)
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again, crits won't give health unless lifesteal procs at the same time in mod 6, unless lifesteal always procs on crit, which I haven't noticed
If and when you got high crit, and high lifesteal from gear, crits with vorpal will give you more HP than the lifedrinker itself.
If either rather sucks - e.g. because you have to up ArPen with your offense slots, or a class where gear with these options is rare, lifedrinker is an OK option. In the all-too-common "endgame BiS" logic this is often overlooked. Also, vorp is ofc better for those classes where 100% crit chance skills do exist (CW, TR).
But with the upcoming statistical distributon, it's by no means certain that that crit from stealth really gives you health leech. So Lifedrinker might become an attractive option. as it'll flatten and elevate the inbound health curve. Also the effect of the Level 73 hits is something that might kindle interest in a more reliable and constant health replenishment.
Or, to word it the other way 'round: Lifedrinker is OK, even nice for certain intermediate chars. For BiS "25k" GS where all stats are at min-max optimum and often quite a bit into the DimRet zone, its effect - with a constant leech percentage as we have it now - is outperformed by Vorpal. We will have to do the math again, though, when the final true numbers for Mod 6 are known, but probably this will stay the same.