While I still haven't gotten the Blooddrinker drop on live to verify myself, multiple people have now confirmed to me that the lifesteal no longer works off of DoTs or persistent AoE. This makes the artifact significantly weaker and takes away pretty much any unique use case it had. The base damage aspect still applies, but that by itself isn't valuable enough imo.
I got it and testet it with my DoT bow build, dots dont Work enymore sadly, i have put it off again, becous i was hoping its perfekt for my dot build but no they changet it from ptr
I farmed this ring and so far the damage penalty has felt quite substantial. Was using it with a GA, a spear and a bow and the damage penalty was massive to the point I took the ring off. Just wasn't worth the heals vs the damage loss. I am sure it will be good for some things but it won't be as game breaking as some people thing.
i got mine really early and its legit been so helpful i use it on my farming sets to sustain while out and about its such a useful ring in the main set and the farming sets
If im not mistaken, it does NOT trigger off of DOT builds anymore. Ive farmed it yesterday for my flamethrower build and the smolder/burn does not continue to heal you. So its either bugged now, or worked in an unintended way on PTR.
Video Request: Im sure a lot of people are currently trying to get their hands on Amulets with 15% xxx Protection depending on what Mutation they are running. Since the 50% Resi Cap doesnt seem to apply, when you surpass it with Gems (speedrunners say), having an amulet + maxing out the Resistances with Gems is huge for survivability in M3s. I got my hands already on the Amulet for Fire Resistance that you can get with Dense Empyrian Forge Materia. I need Empowered on my amulet as well, which makes it really hard to get cheap pieces. You can get Nature Protection on a different Amulet via Dense Materia, but it doesnt have empowered. Maybe I just need to buy expensive pieces anyways, but I will look through the DB for some pieces I might be able to farm myself, that can roll Empowered on it as well.
In arena, I run this on bow/rapier and and the sustain is insane. I can 1v3 and face roll anyone I want with rapier. I do feel the damage nerf a little, but the sustain on it outweighs that in my mind. I do lose to really tanks builds though.
In my language, it is explicitely said on every lifestealing perks that it doesn't procs from DoTs. I would assume that this artifact being able to lifesteal from DoTs was explicitely a bug and it was doomed to be removed.
I see this ring on a dot kite build, you get so much life by just running away :D think it will be awesome on bruiser and for every solo boss/portal farming
Haha yeah true. Though I am very curious if its currently bugged or intended that way. But bottom line, even if they "fixed" it, Ankh + shirking heals is probably gonna be better either way.
This is CRACKED with finisher rapier blood build and SPEAR FUCKN CRACKED.. the int scaling and the burst damage off FLurish makes up for any damage losss
Funny enough, 4dps 1heal setup is not actually that bad if you can out dps most of dungeon mechanics and with this ring it wouldnt be surprising to run 5 self sustained DPS for dungeons now. The tank and heal role may actually become even less important. Also I can already see meme builds going into OutpostRush, specially with flail tank where flail will heal 5% hp on block + this rin and stacked selfheal from DMG perks😅
Do you know if an Artifact Drops…. And you don’t pick up the bag (lifetake on the other side of rock), and the bag despawns, will you be able to get the drop again???
I was saying before this was even obtainable this feels like it will break the game but, any kind of DPS will just be able to sustain life for an insane amount of time in both PVE and PVP
could see this popping off in arti vg build with passive disentegrate uptime. honestly curious how a arti vg/BB build with blooddrinker would be. won't have much escape, but you probably wont die much either.
this is my current build. not fully vested into lifetealing and need a new bb but its an insanely fun support build, not so much a stat padding build haha
I imagine for solo players its good, but in a party with a dedicated healer the damage penalty is not worth the lifesteal… dead enemys don‘t deal damage so no heals needed
This ring is meant for PVE dps "aoe archetypes", like GA or GS. This ring only has value since you can heal from AOEs only with it now. The damage tradeoff seems fair imo and will make life easier for healers
? Please: Is it true that you can constantly change the last perk on artifacts. i.e.. shirking heals, then a month later, say change it to freedom or something else. Thank you for all the videos. They are fantastic!! 😊
something i hope you could shed some light on, if you know about it: for the Finisher rapier, whats better, a diamond for more physical damage or an elemental gem? and in total about the rapier: does "finish" deal equal damage with such elemental gems? i still dont understand it all and aint sure how it works...
As a healer, this makes winning a 1v1 impossible bec my DMG is not high enough. Usually PvP as a healer ist garbage anyway. Versus tanky builds nobody dies and you cant catch anyone if they are running.
@@SargentD4 The Thing is, people are just running away if they loose and VG and life staff cant catch Thema bec no cc. So i either loose or the other one runs away.
I really don't like that Artifacts are locked to mutations with a cap. If you are unlucky you will have to wait a month or so for a second chance :/. Got 3 more tries then capped for the week and no ring.
I think the issue is the over abundance of healing and under abundance of anti-healing options. Buff plagued strikes/crits to 50% so we can counter healers. Add a new Armor perk that applies anti heal on attack?? Put a new gem in that adds anti heal on attack. Why do AGS have no clue how to balance a game?
I mean just because +base dmg perks exist that doesn't mean the -25% dmg doesn't minus 25% damage. This is such a weird take. If you had 130% dmg due to perks and now wear this ring and have 105% dmg, in what universe did you not just lose 25% dmg? XD wtf I still think the ring is great tho, just a weird way to argue math imo.
While I still haven't gotten the Blooddrinker drop on live to verify myself, multiple people have now confirmed to me that the lifesteal no longer works off of DoTs or persistent AoE. This makes the artifact significantly weaker and takes away pretty much any unique use case it had. The base damage aspect still applies, but that by itself isn't valuable enough imo.
I got it and testet it with my DoT bow build, dots dont Work enymore sadly, i have put it off again, becous i was hoping its perfekt for my dot build but no they changet it from ptr
Hope they change/fix it back other wise its realy just a Tank Ring :(
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Oh dont worry it will probably break in a patch or two and go unnoticed for awhile. Ha
Flamethrower still works on it. The rest of the persistent damage no longer works. I'm assuming it's gotta be bugged if that is the case.
@@moose_kunckle6322 no flamethrower doesnt work anymore
I farmed this ring and so far the damage penalty has felt quite substantial. Was using it with a GA, a spear and a bow and the damage penalty was massive to the point I took the ring off. Just wasn't worth the heals vs the damage loss. I am sure it will be good for some things but it won't be as game breaking as some people thing.
I agree with you 💯
Yeah they need to remove the negative perks on artifact jewelery for sure.
@@solarwinds9363 they’re artifacts they shouldn’t hinder you so ya I disagree
@lordgank2137 would be better if they removed the dmg nerf and just nerf how much life steal you get.
If it was 10% damage reduction. It would be better. Otherwise people would rather stack lifesteal, leeching, and trenchant recovery.
i got mine really early and its legit been so helpful i use it on my farming sets to sustain while out and about its such a useful ring in the main set and the farming sets
If im not mistaken, it does NOT trigger off of DOT builds anymore. Ive farmed it yesterday for my flamethrower build and the smolder/burn does not continue to heal you. So its either bugged now, or worked in an unintended way on PTR.
Yeah it appears that both the DoT and persistent AoE lifesteal were removed, very unfortunate.
Yeah we were having too much fun. Which is why I will never purchase the expansion. Many reasons.
Video Request: Im sure a lot of people are currently trying to get their hands on Amulets with 15% xxx Protection depending on what Mutation they are running. Since the 50% Resi Cap doesnt seem to apply, when you surpass it with Gems (speedrunners say), having an amulet + maxing out the Resistances with Gems is huge for survivability in M3s.
I got my hands already on the Amulet for Fire Resistance that you can get with Dense Empyrian Forge Materia. I need Empowered on my amulet as well, which makes it really hard to get cheap pieces. You can get Nature Protection on a different Amulet via Dense Materia, but it doesnt have empowered. Maybe I just need to buy expensive pieces anyways, but I will look through the DB for some pieces I might be able to farm myself, that can roll Empowered on it as well.
Looking forward to trying this on my Fire/Ice Lifestealing build.
Don't do that it's not worth it! , when I tried on PTR was lifesteal on all abilities. Now is just damage. I think is just useless.
It’ll be easy enough to swap out the ring if it doesn’t work for me.
Got this on my first SSB run. Really enjoying having it after unlocking a couple of the perks. Love healing for ~600-900 a hit with this build.
@@MorningStarNews what is your armor and stats? Con / int ?
Light Armor with Ice Harnessing on every piece. Lifestealing. 501 Int 50 Con at the moment. Haven't got any leeching gems yet.
why the video is BETTER than it seems
In arena, I run this on bow/rapier and and the sustain is insane. I can 1v3 and face roll anyone I want with rapier. I do feel the damage nerf a little, but the sustain on it outweighs that in my mind. I do lose to really tanks builds though.
I am farming this today! THX... FL goes Bruuuuuuu
In my language, it is explicitely said on every lifestealing perks that it doesn't procs from DoTs. I would assume that this artifact being able to lifesteal from DoTs was explicitely a bug and it was doomed to be removed.
I’ve got a full DOT bow build, going to have to try this
Please let us know, I run the same build.
lifesteal doesnt work with dots..
Doesn’t work with DOTs bud. Says it on the perk.
I see this ring on a dot kite build, you get so much life by just running away :D think it will be awesome on bruiser and for every solo boss/portal farming
It currently doesnt proc off of dots. Im unsure if its intended or not. It used to heal you for dot damage on ptr, but doesnt anymore on live.
Feel sorry for the ring, I am glad for the meta :D
Haha yeah true. Though I am very curious if its currently bugged or intended that way. But bottom line, even if they "fixed" it, Ankh + shirking heals is probably gonna be better either way.
This is CRACKED with finisher rapier blood build and SPEAR FUCKN CRACKED.. the int scaling and the burst damage off FLurish makes up for any damage losss
this on a lifesteal great sword is gonna be crazy. i can only get massive heals off n solo so much stuff cant wait.
Michael , Odo , Blooddrinker. GG next.
Funny enough, 4dps 1heal setup is not actually that bad if you can out dps most of dungeon mechanics and with this ring it wouldnt be surprising to run 5 self sustained DPS for dungeons now. The tank and heal role may actually become even less important.
Also I can already see meme builds going into OutpostRush, specially with flail tank where flail will heal 5% hp on block + this rin and stacked selfheal from DMG perks😅
If u need to heal as dps ur probably already dead in m3, there is no valuable use case of it in pve
Do you know if an Artifact Drops…. And you don’t pick up the bag (lifetake on the other side of rock), and the bag despawns, will you be able to get the drop again???
That with hatchet berserker would be nice damage and self heals with great axe as well
I was saying before this was even obtainable this feels like it will break the game but, any kind of DPS will just be able to sustain life for an insane amount of time in both PVE and PVP
i feel its fine for pve, but bad for pvp while we also have shrieking heals etc.
Is Blooddrinker good for a PvE player that usually plays spear/bow? or evenWarhammer/Greataxe in certain mutations
could see this popping off in arti vg build with passive disentegrate uptime. honestly curious how a arti vg/BB build with blooddrinker would be. won't have much escape, but you probably wont die much either.
this is my current build. not fully vested into lifetealing and need a new bb but its an insanely fun support build, not so much a stat padding build haha
Isnt it getting a buff here soon adding 30% life steal combined with micheals shield and shirking heals??
I imagine for solo players its good, but in a party with a dedicated healer the damage penalty is not worth the lifesteal… dead enemys don‘t deal damage so no heals needed
Healing off DoTs and AoEs.... that is broken as you point out. Thanks much for the info on this.
This ring is meant for PVE dps "aoe archetypes", like GA or GS. This ring only has value since you can heal from AOEs only with it now. The damage tradeoff seems fair imo and will make life easier for healers
Slows down the team too much. Deadweight dps
Hearty is not a dps perk.
@@GenDrake3You wouldn't use this while in a team if you have a healer. I see this as more of a solo play option where you're focused on surviving.
Final perk: Keen or Slash dmg? Running GS/BB. Keen benefits both weapons, but slash could be good as well, I’m using artifact GS.
What is your choice
Where do you have the info from that Artifacts have an intended higher drop chance at higher Mutationlevel?
? Please: Is it true that you can constantly change the last perk on artifacts. i.e.. shirking heals, then a month later, say change it to freedom or something else. Thank you for all the videos. They are fantastic!! 😊
As far as I know, yes! People say they have the option to change the perk again.
@@DukeSloth Awesome. Ty. Keep up.the great content. 👍
something i hope you could shed some light on, if you know about it: for the Finisher rapier, whats better, a diamond for more physical damage or an elemental gem?
and in total about the rapier: does "finish" deal equal damage with such elemental gems?
i still dont understand it all and aint sure how it works...
diamond 100% w leeching flurry on armor piece
its a much bigger increase than elemental damage? (even with the 150int bonus?)
Opals
i still dont really get it.... a single word has some difficulty to explain something...
As a healer, this makes winning a 1v1 impossible bec my DMG is not high enough. Usually PvP as a healer ist garbage anyway. Versus tanky builds nobody dies and you cant catch anyone if they are running.
What? Bro void gauntlet already has huge sustain. Now pair it with this
@@SargentD4 The Thing is, people are just running away if they loose and VG and life staff cant catch Thema bec no cc. So i either loose or the other one runs away.
@@ramschasar7654 who cares if the run. If you playing outpost rush that’s a win. Ez cap
What weapons would you recommend to use with this ring?
I started following you back with your Vampire build...... we gonna get that build again :P - IA_Knightsky
I really don't like that Artifacts are locked to mutations with a cap. If you are unlucky you will have to wait a month or so for a second chance :/. Got 3 more tries then capped for the week and no ring.
Tbh I don’t think that ankh is the problem, but rather Shirkin heals ( Just to comment on your first Statement )
Does the lifesteal + shirking heal stack? I could see this being essentially a self healing build without using a pocket heal
using anhk is better with shirking heals, than bloodrinker
I bet i can run this on my tank build
pretty sure they said it heal from aoe but from 3 enemies max?
I think the issue is the over abundance of healing and under abundance of anti-healing options.
Buff plagued strikes/crits to 50% so we can counter healers. Add a new Armor perk that applies anti heal on attack?? Put a new gem in that adds anti heal on attack. Why do AGS have no clue how to balance a game?
Can we get hybris and upgrade it to 700?
What about amulet Anhk whit 50% income heal + shrinking heal)?
I think ankh plus shirking healing is the biggest issue.
Yeah, absolutely.
cant use both at the same time
@@maxym189 I didn't say you could, but ankh + shirking healing is much stronger.
Can I have ur flamethrower build plz?
The Bucher sword drop only on dynasty? If any1 can help me.
I mean just because +base dmg perks exist that doesn't mean the -25% dmg doesn't minus 25% damage. This is such a weird take. If you had 130% dmg due to perks and now wear this ring and have 105% dmg, in what universe did you not just lose 25% dmg? XD wtf I still think the ring is great tho, just a weird way to argue math imo.
Where to get ?
Good video but ggs flamethrower 💀💀💀😭
wont drop
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Still the dots do 25%lower dmg ....this ring can be good but as pure dps player is not worth ...
Lifestealing build maybe new meta
Is not !
likely getting nerfed soon
this ring is crazy for tanking. im running 300 STR and 300 Con with it and im getting 1k+ self heals when attacking in packs in dungeons.
You'd be better of just using Ankh as a tank, its fucking busted beyond belief.
I know but I just dont like PVP at all. im only on track 9@@taylornox
Damn didn't know you could get 300 and 300
Way less damage, but more chill time for my healer 😂
@@edocantona3195 I’m liking it as a tank. Still doing enough to keep threat and self healing up to 3k heals when heavy attacking is packs of mobs
make it pve only
and queue the nerf......
Simply a useless artifact now, luckily i havent wasted time doing the quests for it.
25 penality makes it crap for mutations even for tank imo