Erubus is a Demigod, he doesn't need blood to get life, all he needs is hit points. The shield is allotted a certain number of hit points, all Erubus is doing is tranferring them to himself. If Erubus had to rely on blood he'd never get anything from Rooks bricky leg.

He isn't Venril Sathir, he's Erubus.

The shield isn't immune to damage though, and it's made of micro-organisms. Oak just had a high concentration of Midi-chlorians he will into a force shield. It's all proper.

I think the deciding factor is that Oak is immune to damage for the duration of the shield - this should negate all damage, and since Bite is transfering health through the act of doing damage, if no damage is done then no transfer should take place.

Just my 2 cents. I really enjoy playing Erebus, however whenever I see Oak's shield go up, I step back - I never even considered that Bite would transfer health from the shield.

oaks shield  is proberly the best wep on the light side to fight erebus   he does 2quiet a bit off dmg and counters erwebus  erebus is proberly the most dangerous demi but is also proberly one of the easiest and fun

Of course, one needs to think about it more in terms of balance than flavour.

Is this a balance issue? Or just a flavour-text one? If the former, then it needs to be fixed. If the latter then it's hardly serious.

i think the point is you shouldnt lifesteal from oak if u cant even do damage to him

if u dont steal anything why are u gaining life

Is Oak affected by applied debuffs when he is shielded?

I.E. does ice Rain/Max Pounce/Shrapnel mines/Regulus maim/etc debuffs stick while he is under the effects of shield?

If they do, bite should affect him as well (and the life drain should stay)

If they do not, bite should not drain life.

i cant figure out one reason that if erebus isnt healed when oak is shielded this would make it unbalanced specialy with a skill (bite) that it is a bit imba and also a shield that lasts 3-4 seconds and oak must predict when erebus will use it or erebus canot do it if he see him shielded.

i didnt know about life stealing items if its true then it surely must be fixed for them too.There is also an item that can make u imune for 5 seconds my guess is it will be the same situation there too.

Wow, erebus is getting hit pretty hard considering three aspects of bite are getting nerfed (mana, damage, armor) AND now you guys are pushing for biting shields to not even heal the guy.  I guess I wouldn't be bothered if imbalances with other characters were also going to be corrected.  Sedna's ridiculous regen comes to mind.