111350-lifesteal-in-wildstar

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Has anyone found a decent list showing the item specials in Wildstar?  I am specifically looking for anything that gives Lifesteal to aid in survivability while soloing.
 
Items I have located:
 
Sacrificial Booster containing the Thirst special:  http://www.jabbithole.com/items/sacrificial-booster-47405-yn3n9
 
Items containing the Cannibalize Special:  http://www.jabbithole.com/items/cannibalize-46900-3t1ynr
 
 
 
The two slots used that contain these specials are Weapon Attachment and Support System.
 
 
Anything else others have found?	
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			Not sure about items,  but I haven't really seen any real significant difference from having amps for using lifesteal and not putting points there.	
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			When I am AoE farming, I can pull far far more mobs with Lifesteal than without.  So, as a DPS medic, I definitely prefer it.  Yeah, when using JUST the AMP points, the difference is pretty negligible.  Yet, when you stack the lifesteal from multiple sources (including the AMPs), the difference is, the difference, between living and dieing. 	
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			Why not put a heal on your bar for farming?	
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			You didn't specify your class, but some of the stats work better for some classes than others.  For example you can add lifesteal to any class, but unless any of your skills have actual lifesteal, the percent you are getting back will be pretty low.  For Espers there is a certain skill build that can concentrate on lifesteal with incredible survivability.	
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You didn't specify your class, but some of the stats work better for some classes than others.  For example you can add lifesteal to any class, but unless any of your skills have actual lifesteal, the percent you are getting back will be pretty low.  For Espers there is a certain skill build that can concentrate on lifesteal with incredible survivability.
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			for aoe farming i just have mending probes and dual shock. if I dip low i just pop over to my healing spec and top myself off.	
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for aoe farming i just have mending probes and dual shock. if I dip low i just pop over to my healing spec and top myself off.
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The problem is that when using a heal, it will first be lackluster, and second, it won't burst heal you back...  the trinket notwithstanding. 
 
Using two items with Cannibalize + my AMP that gives me more AP when my health dips low means that the lower my health, the more damage I do.  The more damage I do, the more health I regen.  It scales incredibly well with each other.
 
AMP setup here.
 
So I can go to Northern Wastes, pull 10ish mobs with my blue gear, and kill them while keeping myself from dieing with lifesteal.  No GCD used for popping heals.  The more damage I take, the more damage I do, the more damage I deal out, the more damage I return back to me as health.
 
So, to reiterate my inital request, has anyone found any other items with lifesteal on them?	
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I think you think lifesteal does far more then you think it does.
 
6% lifesteal heals you for almost nothing. You say you have blue gear and are a medic. If you are pulling 10 mobs as you say you will be using QC. I am going to assume even with that many mobs you are probably doing around 16k DPS? Lets even say it was 20k DPS.
 
You will be healing for 1.2k HPS. With 10 mobs hitting you, you will be taking at least, say 8k DPS.
 
Lifesteal is bad and pulling 10 mobs is inefficient. You will do better pulling 2 groups of 5 and won't need to waste AMP's on awful Lifesteal.
 
(Also I hate how its called Lifesteal when its actually a damage to healing ratio, it doesn't actually steal health...)	
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I think you think lifesteal does far more then you think it does.
 
6% lifesteal heals you for almost nothing. You say you have blue gear and are a medic. If you are pulling 10 mobs as you say you will be using QC. I am going to assume even with that many mobs you are probably doing around 16k DPS? Lets even say it was 20k DPS.
 
You will be healing for 1.2k HPS. With 10 mobs hitting you, you will be taking at least, say 8k DPS.
 
Lifesteal is bad and pulling 10 mobs is inefficient. You will do better pulling 2 groups of 5 and won't need to waste AMP's on awful Lifesteal.
 
(Also I hate how its called Lifesteal when its actually a damage to healing ratio, it doesn't actually steal health...)
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for aoe farming i just have mending probes and dual shock. if I dip low i just pop over to my healing spec and top myself off.
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Hey guys,
 
Its his game to play as he sees fit.  Let's not question him too much about his choices (whether good or bad).  If thats what he wants to do, let him. 
 
 
In terms of life steal, I haven't myself noticed anything or looked for anything in particular.  The returns on it are far too small to be considered, when the time to group any substantial group of mobs is greater than the time taken to obliterate it while moving to the next one - atleast for my liking.  I'd rather just steam roll over things, and pop my healing trinket when needed to stay topped off.
 
 
I'd be interested to see what is out there though, in case there is something down the road (hint - NEXT DROP) that would be beneficial or more efficient to group a large grouping of enemies together.  Just right now, the time to travel between packs to wrap em up, is longer than the 4 seconds it takes to kill them. 	
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I think you think lifesteal does far more then you think it does.
 
6% lifesteal heals you for almost nothing. You say you have blue gear and are a medic. If you are pulling 10 mobs as you say you will be using QC. I am going to assume even with that many mobs you are probably doing around 16k DPS? Lets even say it was 20k DPS.
 
You will be healing for 1.2k HPS. With 10 mobs hitting you, you will be taking at least, say 8k DPS.
 
Lifesteal is bad and pulling 10 mobs is inefficient. You will do better pulling 2 groups of 5 and won't need to waste AMP's on awful Lifesteal.
 
(Also I hate how its called Lifesteal when its actually a damage to healing ratio, it doesn't actually steal health...)
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So, quick test to show what I have been seeing.
 
I went to Blighthaven and right next to the taxi there is a small pack of JUST 2 mobs, 2 Goldeye Stalkers, each with about 30k health.  I sat there and intentionally let them beat me down to gain all my Lifesteal and AP buffs. Then, once fully buffed, I started killing them.
 
Looking at the damage log after the fight, I used about 9-10 Gamma Rays total.  Got lucky with crits and used Energize so I did not have to use a builder.  In the time it took for me to cast those Gamma Rays, I healed myself for:
 
2187
1949
2198
2247
1700
 
=10281
 
Mending probes can not do that.  Dual shock can do half of that if it crits.  No other heal is worth taking as a DPS medic.  An argument could be made for a max-tier Antidote once at max ability points... but I am not there yet.
 
That is 10k healing in the span of a few seconds.  ALL of that healing was incurred W/O me using any GCDs to do so.  That is one example of a very small 2-mob fight soley for the purposes of giving you guys some info.
 
Extrapolate all of this into a larger fight, in a smallish densely populated area, and you (hopefully) can see that you can essentially fight literally non-stop going from pack to pack.  You never NEED to top yourself off because the Cannibalize special keeps you up when you are low.  Those "other" heals are wasted GCDs that could be spent killing.
 
Lifesteal AMPs are... ok... by themselves.  Add to them items that have Lifesteal, and a high-damage spec turns into a very respectable tankyish spec that can survive a long time, as long as they can put out the DPS. 
 
Don't believe me if you don't want to.  Shrug it off because everyone else does.  Or, think outside of the box, listen to what I am trying to say, and actually give it a shot.  Medics are a good example of this playstyle too with their sub-30% health AMPs (Stay With Me, combined with Energy Pulse) that increases our AP, and applies a DoT that doesn't require any GCDs.  Everything stacks.  Everything scales well together.  I enjoy it.
 
Please respond with comments on items with Lifesteal on it.  It is absurd that so many posts have been made without anyone actually answering my initial requests.  Mr. Ignore was the closest, and thank you for your willingness to try.
 
...There is a reason why the Cannibalize Special was nerfed in a recent patch... Prior to the nerf, I could literally heal to full with everything going, and had a large enough pack.	
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I could see it working well, case dependant.  I just havent really found any good areas that I myself would try this for.  Then again, I am a slinger, soo yea.
 
 
Let us know your progress and if you find items.  Slowly b ut surely, people will step outside the box.  Once the new drop comes (OH MY GAWRD) I bet there will be lots of places to apply this to.
 
Hell, I'd be wanting to go down this route when the new patch drops (modifies world drop / salvage rates) just to farm the coin.	
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I haven't tried life steal with my DPS medic yet; but I decided to try it out on my Utility med after reading OP. While I didn't see anything as impressive as the OP, there was a pretty noticeable impact from life steal. I wouldn't take off my heals from my utility LAS for it... but it definitely could be useful on a high DPS spec with the right tuning. 
 
 
Any word on other LS items?	
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