I agree it is not, but this season I needed a HC rogue to be able to temper my Barbarian weapons, so I decided to play one to WT4, and then once I was there, I just completed it to 100 with Heartseeker build. Much easier playing the range rogue on HC than a melee rogue.
Not the main interest. Andariel is a BIS for poison rogue through the poison nova. The life steal is ok but should not be the reason why anyone should chose this unique.
The life steal is useless ish
This is one of if not the best leveling ubers
I played heartseaker rogue with Andi - most certainly Andi much better choice for “quality of life” compare to shako, attack speed is key (elixir of advantage with 15% atk/15% lucky shot is just make this built real OP)
really wanted this to work on my shred wolf but shako just kept me alive more
It’s actually a really good item. You have to have a build with crazy high attack speed + crazy high lucky hit. The Rogue Andariel Puncture Build is S tier. I don’t have the best gear and can do Pit 115 with it. I suspect I can get to about 120 with it.
I’ve also used it on sorc and its not bad. The poison nova gives you a 4th element for the Tal Rasha ring, so that goes up to 60% dmg bonus, and with high lucky hit and attack speed, it does decent damage, and its really hard to do damage with the sorc.
unfortunately the life steal doesn"t really give you three percent of the damage you do
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Yah, i did mention that AV does work for Rogue, but it definitely does not work for Sorc because of the DR you lose. Sorcs need DR at higher levels. The life steal offers no help if youre already dead after 1 hit.
As for having a 4th elemental for tal rasha, you already get this through tempering a weapon or focus.
Its terrible.
Just for reference on this, the level 10 sigs set item in D2 when you paired 2 items (one of the lowest level sets in the game) gave 10% lifesteal (i think - been awhile lol) - so its shocking it gives as little as it does for an item you were never even supposed to even find it was so rare.
Even vampgaze in d2 gave 8% lifesteal AND manasteal.
It shows how completely inept they are when it comes to pairing rarity-levels with item stats in this game - and just adding lame stats to rare gear that do not improve character peformance/defense in significant ways. People should lose their jobs if they havent already.