Life Steal

[ReticulatingSplines]

I've noticed in nm/hell games that my life steal doesn't seem to be working on undead....is this whats supposed to happen? :P

[Evrae Altana]

You cannot steal life off skeletons, all of which are undead. Note that some undead are not skeletons, so you can still leech off them. The general rule is: if it has meat, you can leech. :tongue:

[SSoG]

Leech, unfortunately, suffers some pretty heavy nerfs. First off, there's a global leech penalty (-50% in NM, -66.7% in Hell). After that, each monster has its own little "Leech Resistances". Skeletons, for instance, are immune to leech. Other monsters have leech reduced a further 50% or more. In other words, even if you have 100% life leech in Hell, often you'll only be leeching 10% of your damage, if that.

It's worth noting that Lifetap suffers no nerfs- it leeches at full effectiveness regardless of difficulty or monster leech penalties.

[krischan]

Apart from leech efficiency, as leech is calculated from the physical damage inflicted, you cannot leech from physical immune monsters at all. That includes lifetap.