Did Lifesteal Change In Functionality Since I Left In Early 2017?

So as of recent iv'e gotten back into Wynncraft because of the economy update and i'm about level 50 now. Problem i'm having as of recent however is my concern on how life steal works now, I have obviously noticed that life steal has changed from x/2's to x/4's but what my main problem is at the moment is when I attack an enemy with 4 seconds after holding the weapon in my main hand it seemingly doesn't allow me to steal hp , so what does it do or what is required now? Does it only work on passive entities? Do I have to kill the enemy now before I can get hp back? Or is this some type of bug?

For questioning, no I don't have any other items that use life steal in my inventory but here's the item i'm using which i'm trying to get life steal out of, and also no, I don't have any other -/+health regen items other than the -40 health regen on this weapon.

Edit: I just used my old influencer with 37/4s life steal and it worked for some reason while this weapon didn't. I purchased this item on the marketplace if that helps.

 

Have you tried hitting mobs multiple times? ...

 

It's not a 100% chance that it will trigger.
The faster the weapon hits, the lower the chance it will trigger and vice versa.

Just hit more.

 

I attacked a nesaak villager for at least over 50 times, not a single one of them I could visualise a sudden increase in my hp while using the crafted item, and yet consecutively when using influencer I could easily see my health going up multiple times with the exact same set of armour, so i'm presuming its some sort of bug with crafted items.

 

Since the update is relatively new, I suspect that this might be a bug since the item that you’re using was crafted (It has durability). You might want to stick to stick to looted/uncrafted weapons for lifesteal because it may be a bug. If you can find another weapon that has been crafted, then maybe you can test out if the lifesteal works on that. If the other weapon’s lifesteal works, then the weapon you showed in the picture could just be an isolated problem.

 

Lifesteal will not activate on passive mobs.

 

No, that's simply false, during my test when I was using influencer its lifesteal ability appeared to work, several times in fact on a nesaak villager which is a passive mob, in contrast the crafted weapon with lifesteal didn't.

 

You can lifesteal off of passive mobs. You can't use passive mobs to charge a powder special, though.

I use Hellstrand on my Archer. I know this.

 

Ah ok, I must have gotten those two confused.