Life Steal/mana Steal

Actually how does exactly works Life Steal/Mana Steal ?
I remember after an update they become random or i'm wrong ?

 

life steal and mana steal vary based on attack speed. Attack speed dictates the chance of life steal and mana steal activating. The chance increases as attack speed decreases. Super slow weapons have the highest chance, while super fast has the lowest. The idea being that super fast weapons will have more chances to activate the stealing effects while the super slow weapons will have the higher chance to mitigate the fewer chances/instances of being able to activate it. This means that super slow weapons will more or less 50/50 to activate stealing effects while super fast will be 'worse' but the extra attacks compared to lower attack speeds attempts to balance the two out. I can't remember where that was talked about elsewhere, but yes it was changed to a random chance rather than dedicated timer activating the effect like poison.

 

Oh thx a lot !
But how this method fit with the time of x\4 seconds ?
And spells doesn't activate mana/life steal right ?
I remember the good old days after the gavel release where i was able to refull my HP with an arrow storm xD

 

Yes, spells shouldn't activate stealing. Same with exploding. To answer your first question though, I'm not to sure. I think I read somewhere that chances had been balanced to only activate every 4 seconds. Since super fast has 4.3 attacks/sec I'd assume it has a mathematically balanced chance where every 4/17.2 attacks will activate stealing (4.3*4 sec= 17.2 attacks over 4 seconds. if 1/4 attacks activates stealing then 4/17.2 is the chance?), but again this is not concrete. I am just using logic to answer the question, not facts. A more knowledgeable person on the topic would need to answer that question.

 

Yep, absolutely this question need an answer.

 

The after burn from meteor, the war scream used to to steals
But SOME ADMIN DECIDED TI TAKE AWAY THE ONE GOOD THING IN MY LIFE

 

what i heard it that on average, you gain x amount of mana/health each 4 second each mob you hit
so i calculated the chances of triggering the life/mana steal
here is how much you hit each second for every attack speed:

Spoiler: Attack Speed

Super Fast: 4.3
Very Fast: 3.1
Fast: 2.5
Normal: 2.05
Slow: 1.5
Very Slow: 0.83
Super Slow: 0.51

multiply that by 4 since the steal is /4second
then you'll get this:

Spoiler: Hits/4Seconds

Super Fast: 17,2
Very Fast: 12,4
Fast: 10
Normal: 8,2
Slow: 6
Very Slow: 3,32
Super Slow: 2,04

to calculate the chance you need to fill in this forumla: 1/x*100
with x=hits per 4 seconds
then you'll get these chances of triggering the life/mana steal

Spoiler: Chances

Super Fast: 5,8%
Very Fast: 8,1%
Fast: 10%
Normal: 12,2%
Slow: 16,7%
Very Slow: 30,1%
Super Slow: 49%

note that this counts per mob you hit

 

This is much plausible and fit the /4 sec question, Thanks !