Blood Mages; Vitality Siphon, doesn't work.

Was excited to grab Vitality Siphon cuz how much life my spells cost (200 life for my curse) but it doesnt seem to leech anything. Took off all my life regen and didnt gain any HP. Using Essence Drain/Contagion as my spell/s. Ended up costing me 10k to respec

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Using Essence Drain/Contagion as my spell/s.

Is the flat damage (damage that is not damage over time) from ED hits respectable?

Unless things are different in PoE 2, you cannot leech from Damage over Time effects.

I considered that but it doesnt leech from the original hit of Essence drain either.

It's bugged. I get 0 health back from dot damage or hits (chaos bolt). Also, the node before Vitality Siphon says you get 10% spell damage as life leech, and Contagion's tooltip says damage-over-time is affected by spell damage modifiers. I don't really give a shit how it worked in poe1 lol, it's misleading and currently broken even if it was just hit-based.

yea, my hexblast hits for 2-5k and i get no leech at all from it. literally bricks my build (allocated sanguimancy and vitality siphon after 2nd lab)

Assuming that DoT does not give leech, the tooltip should have clearly stated "Spell hit damage" instead of "spell damage". I did the same thing, specced bloodmage in the hopes of getting insane sustain from my DoTs, only to find out it didn't work at all.

Honestly, the weirdest thing I find about this is that this means that both of Witch's ascendancies are completely irrelevant to 90% of her skill gems. It feels as if they wanted to have the skills in the EA, but didn't know where to put it. It's extra bad since they do push players towards thinking these are the ideal skills for witch by naming the category "occult" and placing it at the top for her, but all her ascendancy stuff are for elemental.

Just want to add to this thread because i would love an answer, even when reading the description of debuff it describes it as being damage over time so in all cases of the wording it should work

Follow up: Respecced to frost, can't get any impression of lifesteal happening. There's something seriously wrong with how it calculates the lifesteal. Tried to switch over to using comet while on low HP from afar just to get the maximal life steal possible, got nada. Is it distance dependent (Edit: nope, close range also didn't give any leech)? Either way, as it stands right now (10th of November, US time), Vitality Siphon is completely dead.

And mind you, this wouldn't be that massive an issue, IF I DIDN'T BASICALLY SUICIDE FROM SPELL COSTS from the base ability of Bloodmage: Life Remnants.

Honestly, that skill should be free to toggle because until you hit at least 6 asc. points, it is not worth the cost at all.

I'm playing as a blood witch and Vitality Siphon doesn't work at all, i did some tests with Unearth and Bone Storm, no life was received nor any minion that got damage from those skills got any debuffs to indicate the life drain.
This wouldn't be a problem if this node was not core to her main gameplay, so please fix this as soon as possible.

yikes my friend just ascended into this today and this is a huge problem, was seeing people talking about this all over the place tonight sooooo yeah needs to be fixed ASAP. leech not working at all totally bricks multiple builds and 2 ascendancies.

also I heard chrono's slow also doesnt work? yeesh