Vampire Skills

Canned_Apples

I've always wanted a build that utilized vampire skills, but they're pretty weak- so has anyone tested them on the pts? I'm talking about drain and Clouding Swarm.

Deloth_Vyrr

Canned_Apples wrote: »

I've always wanted a build that utilized vampire skills, but they're pretty weak- so has anyone tested them on the pts? I'm talking about drain and Clouding Swarm.

I did some testing on Drain as it's been buffed, but it still falls way too far below what would be considered passable dps. Accelerated Drain specifically does quite a lot of damage, but when you factor in the fact that you have to channel it, locking you out of doing just about anything else for the duration, you are better off using just about anything else instead.

If they want to make Drain a competitive DPS option, it needs to either not lock you down while its channeling (have it function like Zaan's), or needs another fairly significant bump in damage to justify locking your character down.

Canned_Apples

Yeah... kind of what I expected. Such a shame though