life leech or replenish life?

[vizering]

I'm not having any luck finding information about life leech in pvp. I've been off d2 for a good 4 years now and a ton has changed. I'm wondering if life leech is the way to go or if ppl have switched to replenish life, or neither if the leech is nerfed badly.

[Uncle_Mike]

I'm not having any luck finding information about life leech in pvp. I've been off d2 for a good 4 years now and a ton has changed. I'm wondering if life leech is the way to go or if ppl have switched to replenish life, or neither if the leech is nerfed badly.

Life leech pretty much doesn't work except for leeching off minions (that can be leeched). I'm quite sure we've had threads about life leech, try the search function if you want to find out why it's quite useless these days.

[vizering]

Must make dueling more intense... especially melee vs range. Owie. There was no permanent teleport when I played and I really don't like the idea of a teleporting ww baba.

Have people resorted to replenish life? About 50 replenish life gives 5 hp per second.

[theheft]

Only in LLD is replen really used.

High level duels are usually over before any amount of replen can have a decent effect.

If your on Europe I can show you some pretty insane life replen on one of my low level duellers.

[wizAdept]

Must make dueling more intense... especially melee vs range. Owie. There was no permanent teleport when I played and I really don't like the idea of a teleporting ww baba.

Have people resorted to replenish life? About 50 replenish life gives 5 hp per second.

Everything teleports now, it does make duels more intense. In a way also balances things because melee range characters such as barbs smiters and zealots can stomp on casters. Telestomping and minion stacking with teleport is also a big part of caster vs caster tactics. It's not like 09 anymore where iga and ibs sniping offmap rule pvp.
There is no source of healing in d2 pvp really, besides lifetap which is only really viable for smiters, not to mention inconsistent and you might not get a hit on someone to leech. Most gm leagues keep to 40 replenish maximum to avoid players just teleporting around to the other side of the moor for minutes at a time to heal. In pubs you may see pallies with meditation attempting to do the same but this is usually not allowed in gm duels. The lack of replenish healing discourages defensive gameplay and does make every hit count more, which in turn makes pvp more fun.

[vizering]

Hehehe you caught on pretty quick. I guess it is better that healing was removed in pvp.