Ghost Reaver Node

Why does it only do Life Leech % off of skills/equipment?
I'm using claws right now, I misread the Ghost Reaver Node to find that
"Life On Hit" does not work with Ghost Reaver.

So here I am sitting at 110 Energy Shield with Ghost Reaver and my Claw attacks not healing my Energy Shield, a major setback to my character.

Why doesn't Life on Hit work with Ghost Reaver?
Honestly I think it should as it seems like a weak node right now and not sure why it doesn't have all life stealing types of damage.
For a node that is near int/dex which involves Energy Shield nodes/Equipment, this doesn't make much sense either.

Any insight onto this please.

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This keystone should work for all forms of life steal including life on hit.

Because it goes this way. You still can use life leech support gem. Lifeleech with claws claster. Blood rage. Infact fun part life on hit in some cases may even save you from bloodrage degen. Later lvl claws also have lifeleech on them. Are you even shure you can outperform with your claws and life on hit monster damage?

Early Game Claws + Ghost Reaver is bad though. I rushed to Ghost Reaver by lvl 18, so I don't have any life leech supports or life leech nodes, and no life leech equipment at the moment.

Would it be that overpowered if life on hit, etc. worked with Ghost Reaver, it's just like Lifesteal on my health but I have low Health and high Energy Shield so when I lose my Energy Shield I'm close to death and the life on hit doesn't help me much there because I have to back off.

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MrSquishyBuns wrote:

Early Game Claws + Ghost Reaver is bad though. I rushed to Ghost Reaver by lvl 18, so I don't have any life leech supports or life leech nodes, and no life leech equipment at the moment.

Would it be that overpowered if life on hit, etc. worked with Ghost Reaver, it's just like Lifesteal on my health but I have low Health and high Energy Shield so when I lose my Energy Shield I'm close to death and the life on hit doesn't help me much there because I have to back off.

You sholdn't while chaos damage exists. You don't need even concentrate on ES if you are goin hp/ES build. You would always have some ES as buffer against hits(and as matter of fact as stun prevention), while life on hit to heal you, and life leech to supply you with shield. Investing in evaision and block can give sometimes fruitfull results.

The passive is pretty much spot-on.
The reason is that claws switch to life steel later in the game and life on hit bonuses become less relevant, also early on your ES is too low to be able to rely on it. Later, when you're able to get massive shield you want to take this keystone and for attacker shadows that went CI it's practically a must. CI is probably one of the reasons GR exists in the first place, it's not a go-to node for every shadow out there.

I understand Raics, that Ghost Reaver was meant for late game apparently, but if there's less and less life on hit later game then won't adding it to the node Ghost Reaver help it's early game without messing up late game either for it.

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MrSquishyBuns wrote:

I understand Raics, that Ghost Reaver was meant for late game apparently, but if there's less and less life on hit later game then won't adding it to the node Ghost Reaver help it's early game without messing up late game either for it.

It would actually hurt early game and not really effect late game at all. Chaos damage ignores shields so if you don't have anything going to health you can die with full shields very quickly. The fact that the heal from claws still goes toward health helps a lot to mitigate this problem.

so i just started to use ghost reaver and its not working at all. even with life leach i dont get a grain of energy shield back...

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tomleykis wrote:

so i just started to use ghost reaver and its not working at all. even with life leach i dont get a grain of energy shield back...

You're probably doing too little damage or too little physical damage, leech from gear and passive tree can't leech elemental, only leech support gem can. It's a late game gear mod, when you have a bigger damage/health pool ratio.