ClosedPoly said:
It seems like every dungeon and the CB require lifesteal as recommeneded gear. I have the gear but I cant get the substats that I need out of it. Would Defense and Resist work as well? Or just break up sets and forget about the Lifesteal bonus?
Is there a healer that I can use in place of lifesteal? An aura?
For CB, the goal is basically to keep surviving as many rounds as possible - unless you run an unkillable composition in the endgame, sooner or later the CB will start one-shotting your team even while he's debuffed and your team is buffed, but until then you don't want anybody to die from being low on health. It would take a pretty crazy healer to keep the whole team on full health if they have to do it all by themselves - and anyway you'd prefer not to lose a slot on a champion who's only healing (personally I've got Sethallia who does HP burns as well as healing, so it's a little different).
That being said, for most champions lifesteal won't help you very much on the CB until you get warmaster/giantslayer, because until then they just don't do enough damage to keep healing themselves up. So if you don't have your CB team at level 60 yet, or you just don't have a viable CB team at all yet and are just getting by with temporary champions, then indeed lifesteal gear for CB isn't that important yet - though you may already want to work on farming it.
For dungeons, lifesteal will really only make the difference for champions who do a ton of damage on AOE - and in some dungeons, there is no AOE anymore in the final stage. For single target hitters, it could help some but it probably won't be enough and you'd need a healer anyway.
Also, I don't use it myself but if you have good champions who can put the Leech debuff, that can achieve a similar effect as lifesteal without needing any special gear - though if you're going to rely on it like that, you'd better make sure the champion putting it can do so reliably, can keep it up most of the time, and won't easily die.