Mana Steal, Mana Regen, Life Steal, How Do They Work?

I have armor with Mana Steal, Mana Regen and Life Steal respectively. Unfortunately, I cannot seem to get my head around how those identifications work. For example, I have a Crystal with 3/4s Mana Regen, what does that mean? 3/4 as in the fraction? 3 per 4 seconds? 3 what, Mana Points? I can kind of understand how mana regen works, which I guess the piece of armor will regen 3 Mana points of mine every 4 seconds, which is pretty self explanatory. I might be wrong.

Then I have another leggings, which has 1/2s Mana Steal. What does this mean then? Unlike the Mana Regen, I cannot seem to understand how this works. Prior to the release of Gavel, mana steal would display a percentage (If I remember correctly) and it tells me how many percent mana am I 'stealing' from the enemies' health. However after the update, the figure is displayed as 1/2s. I am completely and utterly clueless to what this means, because mana steal cannot possibly depend on the time, could it? It depends on the amount of damage I deal/the amount of hits I do. This also applies to Life Steal, I can't seem to understand the point of the time, and the fraction.

 

Yes, please. Someone explain.

 

don't bother, half of the identifications are not even working

 

From what I've heard, Mana and Life Steal got changed so that now it's a chance to activate them on hit, the /2s is no longer relevant, and they ONLY work on basic attacks (not spells, or poison).
And when it comes to Mana Regen, (I'll use my mage as an example) I have 7/4s Regen, and I get that 7 mana every 4 seconds, not over the period of 4 seconds. (That's from my personal experience, some people say that it's over the course of 4 seconds, so Idk, but I get it every 4 seconds)

 

holy shit ... this is my real nightmare

 

steal ability's will work if you hit the mob/enemy, Regen ability's will work naturally

 

Not true, Salted confirmed on my thread that is was indeed a bug and will be fixed "soon"

 

Spoiler

c:

 

What does the 2 second mean? For life steal/Mana steal, doesn't it depend on whether you hit or not?

 

It used to be something like X amount of mana every 2 seconds, Idk how it worked, for me it was just random. But with poison, it activated on every hit, so it got changed to a chance per hit and can no longer be activated with the use of poison.

 

How long will the mana steal last for then?

 

It doesn't "last", it only randomly activates when you attack with your basic attack (Not a spell) and it just gives you back the amount of mana equal to the amount of mana steal you have.

 

In other words, if I have a Mana Steal of 1/2s, I will get 1 mana point when I hit them with a normal melee attack. If that's the case, what does the /2s stand for then?

 

Did you even read my 1st post on this? I said that the /2s is no longer relevant. It's used for nothing.

 

According to @Selvut283 , Salted stated that 'it averages at around once every two seconds', what did he mean by that?

 

That's how it used to work.
Let me just try to simplify it:
Let's say you have 2 mana steal and that you're out of mana.

1. You run into a mob
2. You hit it with your basic attack
3. You have a chance to activate mana steal (I have no idea what the chance is)
4. It activates and you get 2 mana back instantly

And I'm 99% sure that he meant that the chance should activate around every 2 second on average, but it can take more or less time than that. It can activate for 3-4 hits in a row, or it might take 10 hits for it to activate once.
I really hope you understand now.

 

Simple version:

a/4s mana regen: Regenerate 'a' mana(s) after 4 seconds.

a/2 mana steal: REMOVED XD
a/2 life steal: REMOVED XD

"Hey, I got a nice executioner helmet. Wanna see it?"
"Oh, ids are cool! Can I buy that with 16 emeralds?"
"OMFG BEST DEAL EVER"

 

Yeah, I understand now, thank you.

 

sorry to post so late but I think the real question is... Which is better, mana steal or mana regen, or which should we focus on more. Also from experience I have found that I get 8 mana back every 4 seconds (8/4) for mana regen and not 2 every 1 second.