used it for a bit but it does not have access to morphs and I didn't care to level it. it stuns for its duration (3 sec) does damage and heals 10% max hp per sec, and no longer drains stamina, guess they were afraid it might be op now that they gutted stamina.

To get back stam on a dk we have to use ult or earthen heart skills. None of them comes for free or is cheap.
Sorcs can recover stam, nb can it and templars too. Like tankin with my nb.

Bossfights wont kill all your Stam if u manage it. Havent used pots, shards or anything else. Even in trials u wont need them in 1.6.

Its still worse than the old favorite Midnight Drain.

The 30% of the missing health returned is just not good in active combat, it will never out heal a player or a VR14+ mob.

ScruffyWhiskers wrote: »

So can the player being drained do a cc break on this? Does breaking it then provide the cc immunity?

yes and yes.
best bit is, theres no longer a drained limiter on the spell now.

Yeah so even if you are missing 10k health and you use this, you will get 1k/sec back BUT more like 1k and CC break and a pissed off target.

Whereas a fear would have netted you a snare and a minor maim.

BUT you will get the 10% magicka/stam regen bonus for slotting this. I know I won't be but who knows maybe somebody else can make use of it.

Merlin13KAGL wrote: »

@Wing, unless they changed again, it restores 10% of your missing health every second, not 10% max.

As far as the official patch notes, it says, "Drain Essence: This ability now restores 10% of your health every second, and stuns your target on activation. It can be used on CC-immune targets, and can be used all the time (it no longer activates the Feed debuff)." No where does it say "missing health"... it says, 'restores 10% of your health' unless the patch notes are wrong. I see Wikipedia is saying "missing health" for the tooltip, but again, I don't see anywhere from ZOS that it is missing health and not max health.

Even if it is missing health, that's still pretty decent for a cheap ability that you can spam which also deals decent damage. Figure, if you're down to 3K in health with a max health of 18k, that's still 1500 health points per second for 3/s, which can be reapplied to the same target. Also keep in mind that vampires receive damage mitigation starting when they drop below 50% health, so even a slower health return isn't super detrimental for a vamp. Of course I only PvE, so how this would work in PvP I don't know. I'm just excited that it will finally work against bosses and any other CC Immune enemies as well as now it can be reapplied to the same target.

10% health... then you add in the blanket healing nerf...


It's a nice fast CC that can catch roll-dodgers. Would be swell if one of the morphs would give some stamina.

So it basically restores 5% of your missing health in PvP.. that is really crappy. Even 30% is quite bad (GDB), so I can't think of any reason why anyone would ever want to cast this in PvP. It just gives your enemy a free shot at interrupting you and stunning you.

If it was 5% of max health, it would be so-so, still quite bad, but 5% of missing health is useless.

Zsymon wrote: »

So it basically restores 5% of your missing health in PvP.. that is really crappy. Even 30% is quite bad (GDB), so I can't think of any reason why anyone would ever want to cast this in PvP. It just gives your enemy a free shot at interrupting you and stunning you.

If it was 5% of max health, it would be so-so, still quite bad, but 5% of missing health is useless.

Its not even 5% in pvp... Its badly affected by battle spirit.. I have 20k HP, drain heals me 230 HP/s.. It shouldnt be affected by battle spirit at all, 30% heal would be not bad and worth to use this skill..

@ZOS_GinaBruno please take look at vampire drain skill, some adjustment are needed here.