Ideas for blood scion (vampire ult) and Drain in PVE

Icaruzs

So no one uses perfect Scion morph or swarming scion in pve, because vamp stage 5 is not a big of a deal and bats are bad too...

Why not make this skill, a skill that recompenses players to slot vampire skills?

During the transformation each sloted vamp skill will grant the player 150-200 spellpower/weapon power.

No one uses vamp outside pvp, and there are out there nice WW dps's build but none vamp builds since blood for blood nerf.

With this change people will consider using blood for blood, and others vamp skills (since now you can sustain blood for blood with pale order ring)

Also for this to work, drain needs to be reworked too...Right know it's a rly rly bad skill, they could change a morph to increase the damage and heal by a quite considerable amount... since if you don't have pale order, that will be your main source of healing (and one more vamp skill to the bar, instead of a random self heal). The damage and healing boost can be justified by the user not LA weaving since it's a channeling skill (similiar to jesus beam).

What do you guys think? Vampire rly needs help, the pve vamp is rly bad...Ideas are always welcome, maybe a dev will read this...

i can dream..

Vevvev

Actually the bat swarm is really good when combined with the 10k extra max resources boosting damage. The issue is the cost + the 2 second stun going into the form and the 2 second stun leaving it. Cuts into overall DPS to have that around 4 second downtime, which the increase in power sadly does not make up for.

As for your other points you're right in that drain seriously needs a buff. Having a morph just for increased damage and healing is not how I personally would have gone about it. I would have it heal based on max health instead of missing health, and then scrap the stamina regeneration morph and give back Accelerating Drain with it's minor expedition buff for 15 seconds when the drain ends.

And just as a note I am one of those vampires using Blood for Blood + The Pale Order Ring. It's the perfect match!!! Shame it locks the Spell Power Cure set off, but you can still get buffed by Olorime! My easy fix is to just play the healer role since it only makes sense :P

Xvorg

Clouding swarm was amazing as a ulti... but since ZoS fixed it, Vamp became less and less popular... even the rework was a mess.

Ryuvain

Bat scion is pretty much God mode. Perfect scion and drain do need some good buffs.

Josira

To be honest I would be happy if they changed the art and animation of it first. really..