Life Steal and Life Drain

[mar3usmc]

Simple Question, do they stack?

[NixBoxDone]

Yeah, and what about lesser and greater variants - I want my leader to be able to literally suck enemy units try. Like a Vampire Dyson.

[Malaficus Shaikan]

From what i can tell.
Not it doesnt.
It just gives you two difference power sources.
For example:
My necromancer life stealth and my shadowborn are both responsible for the lifesteal on my melee troops.
But the damage remains 5-10 lifesteal.

[mar3usmc]

Life steal is 3-5 life steal while life drain is 6-10 life steal. To be more explicit about my question, I am pretty sure that multiple sources of life steal or life drain don't stack, but I am unsure as to whether or not one source of life steal and one source of life drain would stack. Basically, if I had both on one character would he have a combined 9 to 15 life drain/steal or just the better of the two at 6-10 life steal. It is important to know when thinking about equiping your heroes.

[FieryLoveBunny]

Life drain and Life steal will both work, giving you 9-15.

[mar3usmc]

SWEET! THX!

[mar3usmc]

OH, one more thing, will multiple instances of the life steal ability also work? Sometimes you get it on a mount and items.

[FieryLoveBunny]

Nope. can only have one instance of each. That goes for every ability in the game

[NixBoxDone]

Lol, imagine triple very lucky - You will never hit anything again. Ever.

[sikbok]

Hi,

We are looking into Life Stealing & Life Drain at the moment, so keep an eye out for the patch notes for our next patch.

[mar3usmc]

Is there an issue with it Sikbok?

[Cookiesnm1lk]

life steal won't stack with itself, no. with multiple instantces, only one "lifesteal" attribute will be there. HOWEVER, lifesteal and life drain DO stack.

[sikbok]

Originally posted by mar3usmc:

Is there an issue with it Sikbok?

Any form of stacking in these types of abilities - i.e. get x back when doing y - can easily spiral out of control when min-max'ing.
Not sure if any changes are needed here, but the balance team is having a look at this for the next patch.

[sikbok]

Team has figured out a solution here that we are currently testing.
That should be available in the next patch.

That will make life stealing and life drain stack up to x4:

• Life Stealing (3-5 hp per hit)
  
• Greater Life Stealing (4-8)
  
• Life Drain (6-10)
  
• Greater Life Drain (8-12)

So, giving:

• Life Stealing to a reaper gives it Greater Life Drain.
  
• Life Stealing to a butcher, gives it Greater Life Stealing
  
• 2x Life Stealing to a butcher, gives it Life Drain

Note, still subject to change

[BBB]

so the max would be 8-12, not additive?

[sikbok]

Originally posted by BBB:

so the max would be 8-12, not additive?

Correct