That point where you have enough crit to perma-CC all non-elite monsters with certain builds. Yay! That point where your life per hit is completely mitigating all incoming damage. That point where your archon goes from 25 seconds to INFINITE. Points where you're following one strategy, but as soon as you hit some magic break point you can suddenly do something you couldn't do before. There's lots of 'breakpoints', as I like to call them, in the game. At the end of the day we decided that life steal is a stat that can, someday, let you feel like you break the game, and putting a cap on things would just be keeping you from attaining that feeling. As people do more damage, get more survivability, and generally find they can AOE things more than they used to, I expect the value of Life Steal to go up. To make a long story short, Life Steal is tuned around where we expect DPS output to be months from now. Life Steal also scales better in AOE situations. Both of the stats scale with mitigation, and both of them scale with Attack Speed at the same rate, but Life Steal scales with your weapon damage and damage output. The reason Life Steal settled at 20% is because over the next few months, the relative value of Life Steal will probably go up, whereas Life on Hit will not. We played with numbers as low as 10%, and as high as 50% penalty.

So it's probably pretty easy to see that before we put in the 80%, Life Steal was 2x as good as Life On Hit. Life Steal was far and away the best stat internally, which is why we put in modifiers to reduce the effectiveness at higher difficulty levels.Ī lot of theorycrafters have (correctly) ball-parked the effectiveness of Life on Hit as being roughly 3x as strong as Life Steal.

I'm happy with where Life on Hit is and keeping an eye on Life Steal. Is there any plan to make life steal remotely useful compared to life on hit? Please don't take that as nerf life on hit. Life steal is obviously limited in quantity to keep it from being over used, but with the 80% reduction, it's a wasted mod. I can hit for 20k and only steal tens of damage while my lifepool is 40k+.

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