runagate wrote: »

Does it literally take the health or magicka from the enemy? If not, can the effect be purge off oneself anyway, simply to deny the effect to the caster?

Reorx_Holybeard wrote: »

Some results from a few tests on PTS regarding the new Minor Lifesteal and Magickasteal debuffs since its not immediately obvious from the patch notes how it works. For this test I was using the Templar's Radiant Aura and the Undaunted Blood Altar skills.

• Lifesteal: When you attack a mob with the debuff it heals you for base 600 health. It can crit based on your spell critical and critical damage modifiers.
• Magickasteal: When you attack a mob with the debuff it restores 400 magicka.
• Both debuffs have a 1 sec cooldown. This is cooldown is for your character so it doesn't matter how many mobs you are attacking you can only receive the debuff benefit once every 1 sec at most.
• In practice, however, you may receive the debuff benefit longer than every 1 second. For example, for a typical fight with several mobs the average period was in the range of 1.3 to 1.8 seconds on average over the fight. Even with several DoTs and AoEs going on 3 mobs the average period only went down to 1.3 seconds.
• With just one AoE going every 1 sec the debuff period increases to 2 secs. I assume the AoE ticks and debuffs cooldown are exactly 1 second which makes the debuff be still in cooldown mode with the AoE ticks.
• Minor Lifesteal does *not* appear to actually steal or drain health from the target when procced. Assumably the same thing applies for Minor Lifesteal (PVP testing is needed).

I think the changes make both Radiant Aura and Blood Altar viable and interesting skills again. I would suggest, however, reducing the debuff cooldown to just under 1 sec (ex: 0.9 - 0.95) in order for it to work fully with AoEs that tick every 1 sec as well as in regular use. A larger radius for Blood Altar would be nice too (at least 10 m which is still small for a lot of fights).