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pointsman
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So I was just goofing around and I thought, hey, since I have all of these Drake seals anyway, why not buy a bunch of jewelry that will give me Life Steal and see how that goes?
So I got:
3x Minor Grand Berserker Ring of Cleaving (2 for me, 1 for kitty)
1x Minor Grand Priest Belt of Burning Light
2x Demonweb Wrap, from AH (has more LS than Drake seal jewelry and didn't have defense stats) - again 1 for me, 1 for kitty
1x Blessed Belt of Restoration, for kitty, because I needed some power and recovery along with the Life Steal after changing all the jewelry out
I didn't mess with the other enchantments on my main pieces, just the jewelry. Those have 1x Rank 7 Dark in offense, 1x Rank 7 Azure in offense, and 1x Rank 7 Azure in defense.
And I enchanted the jewelry with some relatively modest Rank 5 Dark's (mainly) just to try it all out. I managed to get LS up to about 1100, which corresponded to 8.5% damage converted into healing. The tradeoff is that my Critical Strike and Defense went down as I had to enchant Darks to keep the ArPen up, when otherwise I would have been freer to enchant Azures. Even still, my Critical Chance is still right at about 30%. Also my power went down by a little bit.
So I found that while wandering around Sharandar, I didn't have to use any potions at all. Normally I would have to use potions in between battles (I don't have HV so I don't have the benefit of its regeneration stat). Fighting Celadaine was easier too. I haven't really tried it out on a dungeon yet, that is next.
Overall though I find that I'm kinda liking it, and in my implementation it was rather cheap to pull off since I already had a bunch of seals. But one downside is that it will require a *lot* of Dark enchants, which are the most expensive type. I know that if I want to go further then I should think about swapping out the robe's defensive Azure enchant with a Dark as well, for Life Steal, as well as upgrade the other Darks, but that's gonna get spendy. So, before I spend a lot more AD on this project, does anyone else have any experience with Life Steal, whether it can be made viable as a real CW strategy? If so, what is a good target to get Life Steal up to?
So I got:
3x Minor Grand Berserker Ring of Cleaving (2 for me, 1 for kitty)
1x Minor Grand Priest Belt of Burning Light
2x Demonweb Wrap, from AH (has more LS than Drake seal jewelry and didn't have defense stats) - again 1 for me, 1 for kitty
1x Blessed Belt of Restoration, for kitty, because I needed some power and recovery along with the Life Steal after changing all the jewelry out
I didn't mess with the other enchantments on my main pieces, just the jewelry. Those have 1x Rank 7 Dark in offense, 1x Rank 7 Azure in offense, and 1x Rank 7 Azure in defense.
And I enchanted the jewelry with some relatively modest Rank 5 Dark's (mainly) just to try it all out. I managed to get LS up to about 1100, which corresponded to 8.5% damage converted into healing. The tradeoff is that my Critical Strike and Defense went down as I had to enchant Darks to keep the ArPen up, when otherwise I would have been freer to enchant Azures. Even still, my Critical Chance is still right at about 30%. Also my power went down by a little bit.
So I found that while wandering around Sharandar, I didn't have to use any potions at all. Normally I would have to use potions in between battles (I don't have HV so I don't have the benefit of its regeneration stat). Fighting Celadaine was easier too. I haven't really tried it out on a dungeon yet, that is next.
Overall though I find that I'm kinda liking it, and in my implementation it was rather cheap to pull off since I already had a bunch of seals. But one downside is that it will require a *lot* of Dark enchants, which are the most expensive type. I know that if I want to go further then I should think about swapping out the robe's defensive Azure enchant with a Dark as well, for Life Steal, as well as upgrade the other Darks, but that's gonna get spendy. So, before I spend a lot more AD on this project, does anyone else have any experience with Life Steal, whether it can be made viable as a real CW strategy? If so, what is a good target to get Life Steal up to?
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Currently at 683 which gives 5.7% damage as HP, which is nice in dungeons along with a bit of Regen too. As you say, it's a pretty cheap stat to equip.
I would suggest for stone to use the icon you mentioned have undeath ring (crit/reco/arp) with dark enchantment in defensive slot. some +lifesteal neckless (demonweb maybe?)
then you would likely need power/arp/lifesteal rings on your main character. and perhaps more.
It becomes alot easier in module 2. as we will get +2000-3000 extra stats. When that comes along i will most likely be stacking lifesteal to 10% + power.
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getting some 6k heals in dungeons is easy, crit SotEA and u got yourself 10k+ heal. as long as u can cast skills u can only be killed with 10k++ hits, chain cc or a bunch of archers. i can easily kite FH last boss sustaining with just life steal, cast oppressive in a large bunch and its full heal
darks in the defense slots, jewelry with life steal, etc. there's a t2 main hand with like 270 life steal on it too (orb of the spirit cave i think?)