Am I missing something re: Vampiric Drain?

Langeston

I'm trying to come up with a viable vampire build for my PVP magblade, and nothing I've come up with is stronger than my previous (already relatively weak) magblade build. So far, the new Vampirism is a nerf to my build in basically every way.

What I really don't understand is Vampiric Drain — it gives a good heal & the ult regen on the Exhilarating morph would be useful, but it does so little damage that I don't see how the skill itself would be viable. Once you cast it on another player you are defenseless for 3 seconds, and with Battle Spirit you'll be doing roughly 1k damage per second, applying basically no pressure. So basically it's a giant red beam telling your opponent "hey, I'm defenseless, attack me!" Am I missing something?

Paradisius

Yes, they changed the idea of vampiric drain suddenly, I wish it kept its damage as well, but it's only week one of PTS so here's hoping

TheSeraphim

I really wish they get rid of the weird morph that heals like 5% stam a tick and replace it with a version that does more damage but heals less. The stamina morph is incredibly out of place, a Stam character will do more damage and get similar recovery from a HA or two and I can't see a time a Mag character would channel for 3 seconds just to get around a rolls worth of stamina back, plus you are giving up ultimate generation for this.

starkerealm

With the current state of the game, a 3 second channel needs to be really spectacular to justify it's existence. Even in that context, the self-heal struggles to do that. ~70% of missing health would be amazing, if we didn't have click heals that could return that in two casts.

fxeconomisteb17_ESO

Paradisius wrote: »

Yes, they changed the idea of vampiric drain suddenly, I wish it kept its damage as well, but it's only week one of PTS so here's hoping

You can say that again. It was a nasty surprise.