life leach question

[zeplin]

this has probly been answered before, so sorry if it has

lets say ur using, dracs with 15 life leach, strings with 6 life leach, and arreats with 7, now do u have 28 life leach, or do u have 3 seperate life leaches, what im basically saying is, does life leach stack

[Evrae Altana]

Life leech stacks. In your case, you'll have a total of 15+6+7=28% life leech.

[Hrus]

Strange question.
If it was counted separatly, you would leech 6, 7, and 15% separatly. That would result in 28% life leeched too, isn't it so?

[slynth]

Call me stupid, but I fail to see the practical difference between lifeleech stacking and lifeleech being counted seperately. Care to enlighten me?

[krischan]

I guess zeplin wanted to know if it's 15% or 28%, i.e. if the leech gets added or if only the item with the highest leech will work.

BTW, Dracul's just have 7-10%LL.

[slynth]

I guess zeplin wanted to know if it's 15% or 28%, i.e. if the leech gets added or if only the item with the highest leech will work.

I can see how one can come to the conclusion, but he specifically asked "do u have 3 seperate life leaches"

[pedu]

Or... maybe he was just tired/not so good at math/didnt think in these paths/ forgot/blackout/whatever?

[zeplin]

wat i meant was do u take 6 percent of life leach, then take another 7 percent, then another 15 percent, so ill give an example, if u have 100 life do u get ll stacked so u take 28% for a total of 28 life, or do u take 6% of a 100 for 106 life, then take 7% of 106 life etc...

[slynth]

wat i meant was do u take 6 percent of life leach, then take another 7 percent, then another 15 percent, so ill give an example, if u have 100 life do u get ll stacked so u take 28% for a total of 28 life, or do u take 6% of a 100 for 106 life, then take 7% of 106 life etc...

You don't do either, that's not how life leech works. First, you add up all the LL you have. In this case, you have 28%. You gain that percentage, 28, of the physical damage dealt.

So, say you're a paladin using zeal and you deal 1,000 damage. You'd gain 28% of the damage dealt, which is 280. If you dealt 600 damage, you'd gain 168 life.

[krischan]

BTW, in nightmare and hell, leech is reduced to 1/2 and 1/3, respectively. I'm not sure about it with respect to lifetap, however.

[helvete]

BTW, in nightmare and hell, leech is reduced to 1/2 and 1/3, respectively. I'm not sure about it with respect to lifetap, however.
Lifetap is not capped like leech, and works on anything that physical damage can be dealt to.