Claw life leech+ ghost reaver doesnt work?

It seems to be restoring my health only, which is a shame because the main reason I went for ghost reaver was for the claw life leech to replenish my shields.

I'm assuming that's because you have +X life on hit perhaps instead of life leech (x% of physical damage). Not 100% sure, but that's where I'd start to look.

The life on hit is most likely the problem, which sucks because I was also building toward a ghost reaver dual claw type build... Are there claws that have a %life leach instead of life on hit modifier? Or should i just scrap this build and do something else?

im actually try out a way. First i can say: "Gain Life on Hit" dont work with Ghost Reaver, but if u Skill the Claw Skills "Raker" wich including 1% - 2% Life Leech on Claws, that work.

Short Version:
"Gain Life on Hit": Dont work wiht Ghost Reaver
"Life Leech": Works. (Regeneration.

My actually Build (future ^^, actualy im lvl 23 :P ) looks like this:


If i reach maxlevel... i wanna try to get a point in "Chaos Inoculation" cause ive no HP and the only thing what can shred my ES is... yeah... Chaos dmg >.<

Just a tip: Dont Skill "Ghost Reaver" before u have more live then HP. (I wanna try it to skill it early with my lvl 23 Shadow, cause Life Leech works as a Regeneration and if i lose Life i reg with "Gain on hit" on my claws instant HP, maybe its better than i expected)

Greetz

Nightsike

PS: Read this for "Gain Life on Hit" and "Life Leech" Mechanics:

Yes it is obvious that that is the problem, though am I the only one that thinks that that needs fixing? it seems like that point is almost specifically made with the claw life gain in mind and then it just doesnt work also I dont see how it would be OP or anything because you can do fairly the same by going total evasion and using claw for your health bar instead of shield.

TL;DR enable the claw life gain to work with ghost reaver

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Xplition wrote:

TL;DR enable the claw life gain to work with ghost reaver

Yes, I agree, When you take ghost reaver as a skill i think that it should take all the %life leach (which it currently does) aswell as life on hit and turn it into ES.

http://en.pathofexilewiki.com/wiki/Claws
11 of the claws have life leech instead of life on hit.

So if you are using one of those claws then the point in Ghost Reaver is worthwhile. If you are not then it isn't.

I tested now Ghost Reaver early on. if u have about 5% life leech with 100+ ES u have a little amount that regenerate just 5% during a few seconds. Not that strong i expected. Maybe u have to skill "Vaal Pact" for instant ES Recovery. Dont missunderstand me. This 5% ES Shield arent bad... but i think u can go for Life on Hit if u fall under ur ES... and need a Puffer. I think "Vaal Pact" works then like two real Life Bars. Still testing all :D And maybe a Shadow who play this way can give some Experience to us. ^^

My actualy tendence:


Greetz

Nightsike

PS: My english is rly bad T.T sry... >.<

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profDEADPOOL wrote:

http://en.pathofexilewiki.com/wiki/Claws
11 of the claws have life leech instead of life on hit.

So if you are using one of those claws then the point in Ghost Reaver is worthwhile. If you are not then it isn't.

After following your link I see that the high level claws all have percentage gain and thus work with the skill, that means that at least eventually the problem will go away, its a shame it doesnt just work with all though.

Thanks for the link :)

Life leech is a percent of physical damage dealt, not a percent of life, nor energy shield with Ghost Reaver taken.

Nightsike, your build is focusing on increasing energy shield, with a great loss of skill point in more or less useless stats, only for picking Body and Soul and other increases of energy shield. Your life leech will not return a great amount of life (or, in our case, of energy shield).

In my mind, the amount of energy shield of that template don't have to be big. It's the life leech that have to be, and that means more damage. That's why I'm focusing on that kind of build, fully oriented on damaged dealt with dual claws:


More damage = more leech.

That's my opinion, I will be pleased to discuss, particularly on that Vaal pact point. First question: is it really usefull? Damage taken are too high to not let leech apply with time? Second question: VP does not inhibit Zealot's Oath?

Edit: see Rnew1990 post about more damage for more leech : http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/51951/highlight/