Drain Essence is the most useless skill

a1x23 · January 2016

Drain essence and its morphs are completely useless. The dmg and heal are insignificant. Once someone CC breaks you are still in the animation. Please tell me a more useless skill in the game, i beg you

Tryxus · January 2016

Wall of Elements

Leon119 · January 2016

Blazing shield

Gilvoth · January 2016

i agree, thats why i asked for and said this in another thread:

quote:

drain essence is weak and i hate the way it looks and acts during combat.
i have spent a long time trying to get into sneak during pvp battles with long enough time to actually be exactly behind a person while thier moving to get a perfect feed and it just really really hard.
so im asking for the following:

i would love to be able to feed on people without having to go into sneak to do it, and during combat while facing them
[for example]
grab them while facing them and bite into thier neck and feed

And for it to actually cause serious damage and stunn.
and also: if the enemy lets me drink away all thier health and they die, that would be awesome also

also: drain essence does not register that i fed on some one.
so the new skill would need to read that i did feed on some one.

end quote:

Destruent · January 2016

what about no?

a1x23 · January 2016

Tryxus wrote: »

Wall of Elements

I would say its a tie, both are completely useless

Oldmanlawlor · January 2016

I made a post about this a few days back. And yes, it's quite a poor skill to use.

Gilvoth · January 2016

the MOST useless skill in eso is the "feed" on a person from behind and in sneak.
it does zero dammage and is hard as hek to do to someone in battle cause thier constantly moving.
i am able to do it if im not in battle with them cause just sneak up behind them, but during pvp AND pve it is almost imposible to do.

CavalierPrime · January 2016

Molten Armaments is a pathetic spell.

a1x23 · January 2016

Leon119 wrote: »

Blazing shield

In pvp it's useless, but for a tank in pve it's quite useful

a1x23 · January 2016

CavalierPrime wrote: »

Molten Armaments is a pathetic spell.

I agree but still has more use than drain essence

Destruent · January 2016

most useless skill is radiant aura (templar, restoring light) bc it's the same as drinking a potion.
Wall of Elements does around 2k DPS on my mage-DK, drain essence therefore is great for sustaining AoE-DPS. So they are far away from beeing useless.

a1x23 · January 2016

dwemer_paleologist wrote: »

the MOST useless skill in eso is the "feed" on a person from behind and in sneak.
it does zero dammage and is hard as hek to do to someone in battle cause thier constantly moving.
i am able to do it if im not in battle with them cause just sneak up behind them, but during pvp AND pve it is almost imposible to do.

Its not really intended to do much other than lower vampirism

lolo_01b16_ESO · January 2016

elemental susceptibility
sanguine altar
guard (either morph)
leeching strikes

CP5 · January 2016

You realize one of the morphs gives 3 ultimate a second while being used, right? I my opinion that makes it more useful than WoE and guard.

TheShadowScout · January 2016

CP5 wrote: »

You realize one of the morphs gives 3 ultimate a second while being used, right? I my opinion that makes it more useful than WoE and guard.

This is its use. Not so much for PvP, but in PvE... Invigorating Drain, gain ulti to power the bats, win.

Still wish it would count as feeding... sometimes its impossible to sneak up on mobs for that, and you just want to grab then and feed anyways... they should have combined those two into that one skill IMO. And just add an extra effect if you successfully do it from stealth...

teladoy · January 2016

That skill is for pve. You can't go with drain essence in pvp. You need more than 5 or 6 around you and they will dps you a lot lot lot more than you will heal you.

I tell you this because i have also a nightblade magicka vampire.

Asmodean · January 2016

How about maybe changing this tread into a constructive one?. For objective listings for abilities that most people find clearly don't stack up to others in the game.

You'd never know.. It would be nice if they were improved to be made comparable in strength / usefulness to the better ones at some point.

Instead of it's current form which is simply for useless venting. ^-^

Artjuh90 · January 2016

inferno..... ESPECIALLY THE MORPH THATS GIVES MANA BACK XD

Artjuh90 · January 2016

Destruent wrote: »

most useless skill is radiant aura (templar, restoring light) bc it's the same as drinking a potion.
Wall of Elements does around 2k DPS on my mage-DK, drain essence therefore is great for sustaining AoE-DPS. So they are far away from beeing useless.

and works great in solo play in combination with fire rune

Master_Kas · January 2016

Agony

Yolokin_Swagonborn · January 2016

lolo_01b16_ESO wrote: »

elemental susceptibility
sanguine altar
guard (either morph)
leeching strikes

Even looking at the skill "guard" in your alliance war tree costs 5000 stamina. This skill apparently worked fine in Warhammer and actually made tanks useful in PvP. But it didn't have all of these restrictions.

Spottswoode · January 2016

Let's see here.....

a1x23 wrote: »

Drain essence and its morphs are completely useless. The dmg and heal are insignificant. Once someone CC breaks you are still in the animation. Please tell me a more useless skill in the game, i beg you

As a vampire and a healer, I disagree. It's actually a very good skill in PVE. PVP is another matter entirely.

Tryxus wrote: »

Wall of Elements

Had that opinion until my Sorc could start procc'ing disintegrate. It's not great, but it's way better than lightning splash if you don't have a reliable companion.

Leon119 wrote: »

Blazing shield

Actually that's one of the most useful pvp skills. Of course, I also run magicka templar with Scourge Harvester and Whitestrake. Maybe I'm just weird.....

lolo_01b16_ESO wrote: »

elemental susceptibility
sanguine altar
guard (either morph)
leeching strikes

Elemental susceptibility is probably the winner here as it is really only useful for long sustained dps. And there's about a dozen other skills (namely the other morph) that would work better in it's place.
Sanguine Altar probably comes in second.
Guard literally only has one use, so it's not so much the skill is useless as the design is utterly specific.
As a vampire, I disagree with leeching strikes.

Master_Kas wrote: »

Agony

Malefic Wrath has it's uses in PVP. (Mind you, it's made to take advantage of being broken.)

Artjuh90 wrote: »

inferno..... ESPECIALLY THE MORPH THATS GIVES MANA BACK XD

DK fire mages would disagree.

CavalierPrime wrote: »

Molten Armaments is a pathetic spell.

I take it back. This one wins.

dwemer_paleologist wrote: »

the MOST useless skill in eso is the "feed" on a person from behind and in sneak.
it does zero dammage and is hard as hek to do to someone in battle cause thier constantly moving.
i am able to do it if im not in battle with them cause just sneak up behind them, but during pvp AND pve it is almost imposible to do.

I have been able to do that a couple of times in PVP as my NB vampire, but the payoff isn't anywhere near worth the risk. It does stun people for the duration of the whole feeding animation, so it does have it's uses in PVE.
The only tactical use for it other than the stun effect or heal would be to lower your fire damage vulnerability.