Theft of Life?

[vozzek]

Hey all -

After reading the description for Theft of Life, and how it's "Fantastic in PvP", can someone explain to me exactly what it does and why it's so good?

I'm on a PvP server, and of course I use my lifetaps all the time. I already got Spell Fury 3, and I noticed that when I crit another player I get back the life equal to the damage done.

When I don't crit, I still get back several hundred life for each tap. Will Theft of Life allow me to gain back a "heal-crit"? I don't see this a "fantastic" - it's useful yes, but most of the time when I hit with my lifetaps I'm almost always at full HP anyway.

Also, what %'s does TOL give for levels 1, 2, and 3?

I guess I'll buy it. It's cheap enough.

[Zandramadass]

Theft of thought is just like your spell casting fury in pvp it gives you a chance of doubling the heal done by your lifetap. Both Crit Heal and Crit Nuke are checked for seperately so you wont always get both of them to hit at the same time but when you do your ToM spell could effectively do nearly 4k heal to you.

Also if you solo alot and are in tight quarters where you are not able to kite forcing you to pet tank it allows for 2k heals on pet instead of the 1k you would be used to.

[Nigyl]

Yeah, I was kind of surprised when I got Touch of Death and started seeing 2k crit heals on my pet... didn't realise the lifetap AA affected pet heals too.

[vozzek]

Ahhhh... I didn't know they had seperate checks and could both hit at the same TIME! That makes this much more valuable for me. Thanks for clearing that up.

[Tordal]

Important to note that a successful check on Theft of Life will double the RECOURSE of your lifetap -- you get double the HP healed to you, but it will NOT increase the amount of damage done to the mob. Only the SCF line will boost the damage done to mobs.

So, you could get a critical + theft of life on a single cast of Touch of Mujaki, and you'd get (approximately) 2000 HP damage done to the mob, and 4000 HP healed to you. Just something to consider.

I think TOL is 100% worth it. I have TOL maxed and I crit my pet heal for 2k often enough that for pet tanking, it has many times saved my pet from certain doom.

[Shenlonx]

If you have Mend Companion, ToL can crit on that too. A 4k pet heal every 9 minutes is extremely useful :).

[Aryse Andenter]

Seeing your health shoot up 4k from crits when you were nearly dead sure does make some PKers have a heart attack :D And since crits are streaky, they do often happen together.

[Mallakith]

THe ToL gives a crit to the heal similar to a clerics "exceptional heal" and it IS fantastic in pvp

With the new lifetap (Soulspike) I crit a lifetap fir 1700 and got a 3400 heal from it.

1 dead bard

[Aryse Andenter]

With Touch of Mujaki, with no focus, you can get a 3400hp heal crit if you also critted on the DD, so with Soul Spike the max crit should actually be much higher.

Because I have focus I can get heal crits for over 4k with Touch of the Mujaki.... very very fun :D Necros in my guild report crit heals over 6k with the new tap, and figure the actual max with best focus and bard song is probably around 6500hp before buying Destructive Fury AA.

[Mallakith]

ya i never really bothered with dd crits focussing more on defensive and pet aa's but now... ojh beware the unwashed lighties on Vallon Zek ;-)

[Rikam]

I believe he was saying he crit for 3400 being there is the 75% rule or whatever on PvP server. Notice he said he killed a bard not uber_mob_01 =).