Confusion About Attack Speeds With Life Steal And Mana Steal

According to many people, life steal, and mana steal attempts to steal around every 4 seconds. (so super slow would steal around every 2 hits, etc). I was wondering if +tier or -tier affected this steal attempt. (so wondering if you would steal a lot if you had a +6 stat with an apocalypse, for example) If you could answer if you know how this works, that would be amazing! Thanks!

 

Life and mana steal aren't based on multiplying 4 by the weapon's attack speed, it's rather chance-based. This means that the higher attack speed a weapon has, the less chance it has to steal life or mana per hit. So an Apoc with +6 tiers of attack speed would not steal more life, in fact, it would steal less often. I don't know what the exact chances are, but some people might have a chart for you.

 

The activation chance is based on post-tierboost attack speed - you can't get ms/ls proc every 0.5 seconds or something by tierstacking Apoc for example. If you have a +6 tier Apoc, it will steal just like a Super Fast weapon.

 

Okay! Thanks! Also, I have another question. If i were to attack a group of mobs, so if I hit 10 mobs at a time, would that still make me steal the same speed, or would the steal be faster?

 

Steal would attempt to activate for every mob hit, I think (I assume so based on how people say ms/ls is really good in guild wars).

 

or it would be, if melee builds wouldn't be that tedious in wars. so much running around and chasing teleporting mobs...