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you know i never see this picked up in game, i can see the practical use for it but what makes it that no one ever purchases it?

the fact that it reduces healing is great but is it easier to just pick up a more damage orientated item that can maybe do more damage and probably outdo the heal debuff? maybe upping the dmg to 70mag since most magic items are around that level of damage anyway, making this one subpar.
alternatively maybe the item should be reworked to suit mag tanks like sobek better.

also its a 2 sec duration if i recall correctly, is that not especially for a mage, too short of a timer?

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The biggest problem at the moment is that Magical Lifesteal as a stat is broken to the point where you hardly gain anything out of stacking it. So what you'd really be getting is an overpriced 50 Magical Power/150 Mana item most of them.

That isn't saying the item is completely useless. Negating 50% of ALL healing sources (Healing, Lifesteal, and Regeneration) is very strong against certain gods. It neutralizes 's ultimate and 's 3, which normally allows them to absorb your team's attacks like a sponge. It keeps lifestealing gods like and from surviving off of you. It weakens and ability to save teammates with pinch-healing. If HP recovery is what is really allowing your enemies to come out on top, having a or it's physical counterpart the can go a long way towards eliminating that advantage.

In the new Assault mode, I pretty much make it a habit of mine to always build an anti-healing item if the team has any gods with healing or regeneration. If the enemy team has , , etc. and nobody on your team builds these items to counter them, then your team deserves to lose.

Also, the debuff lasts for three seconds, not two, two is the amount of times it can stack. DoTs like 's Tornadoes will contantly reapply it, so it works for spammy and DoT-based gods.

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I tested this back in the days, and it is as Sunfall already said :

Why would you wanna pay so much gold for 50 MP / 150 Mana.
It's kinda worthless, since magical lifesteal is just broken in a bad way.

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