Will life/mana leech return?

[Drakk]

Will life/mana leech return?

Since we will now have health and mana globes dropping, is there a need for life and mana leech? I couldn't find any threads on the subject so I thought I would bring up the topic.

I liked the life leech mechanic; I thought it suited the type of action well. In most cases you could keep your life replenishing after attacks, but if you were to miss a few attacks in a row, be stunned by mobs, or facing the un-leechable undead you needed to resort other measures to survive (potion spamming, eww).

Depending on how often health globes drop and the rarity of potions we still might need the life leech mod to survive. I am a little torn on the subject. I like the mod, but it can be easily abused. What do you think?

 

[Krugar]

Re: Will life/mana leech return?

There's a possibility Life and Mana leech will not return.

I'm not sure what are those balancing issues. I'd risk the introduction of health globes. Since their drop rate is based on the damage the player applies, you would have two automatic life recovery methods happening at the same time. And that may be just a little too much.

 

[konfeta]

Re: Will life/mana leech return?

Please, dear god, not in D2 form. Maybe as potions for a short buff. Or a skill, that is again, a short buff on long cooldown. Or a life tap curse, except again, long cooldown low duration.

 

[Drakk]

Re: Will life/mana leech return?

Thanks for the link Krugar. Not much info about life leech there but it is probly too early in production to worry about it.

It was funny to read through that interview about the possibility of a playable D3 at BlizzCon '08. I guess the next time we hear a "I can't say anything about that" statement from a Blizzard employee we can safely assume its a "yes" lol

 

[Turnip]

Re: Will life/mana leech return?

The problem with diablo 2 is it was too fast paced, the health globes instead of potions fixes this a little but they really should get rid of leaching too to make it more WoW like. Heres hoping they get rid of it all together.

 

[Romak]

Re: Will life/mana leech return?

The reason Life Leech/Mana Leech sucked in D2 was because of the astronomic difference between the player's health/mana and the damage he dealt. Lets say a barbarian got 5,000 health, and his attack deals 15,000 damage (10,000 after penetrating the target's defense and all the crap...). So yeah... 6% life leech will give the barbarian 600 health. If there are 5 hits in a WW, that's 3,000 health in seconds... and most barbarians got more than 6%. If life leech wasn't based on your damage percentage, I think it could work.

 

[SlechtWeerBeer]

Re: Will life/mana leech return?

The reason Life Leech/Mana Leech sucked in D2 was because of the astronomic difference between the player's health/mana and the damage he dealt. Lets say a barbarian got 5,000 health, and his attack deals 15,000 damage (10,000 after penetrating the target's defense and all the crap...). So yeah... 6% life leech will give the barbarian 600 health. If there are 5 hits in a WW, that's 3,000 health in seconds... and most barbarians got more than 6%. If life leech wasn't based on your damage percentage, I think it could work.

Note however, on higher difficulties the leech % dropped, and some (most?) mosters had an additional leech modifier over that (Skeletons having x0, making them unleechable, par example).

Still, it was too easy to stack up on leech and just kick *** to heal.

 

[stillman]

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They should make it all about regeneration this time around.

 

[Akse]

Re: Will life/mana leech return?

Note however, on higher difficulties the leech % dropped, and some (most?) mosters had an additional leech modifier over that (Skeletons having x0, making them unleechable, par example).

Still, it was too easy to stack up on leech and just kick *** to heal.

Yeah and imo that was a bad change because it made lifeleech a lot mroe valuable in gear choices.. while if they just had kept it as it was people would have only needed that 5-10%.