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I'm altogether neutral about this as I await the results of other class' sustain- what do you guys think about this? Self ele drain. Impale, Ele weapon and Merciless all got hit with cost nerfs, drain in the current patch would usually hover around 300 less. This was in Master Architect + Spell Strategist- which, by the way has an excellent uptime and is essentially just 500 spell damage with no real stipulation other than being purely single target, kind of like a Magicka Relequen.
Here's another, though with using an Absorb enchant on the backbar.

I don't necessarily think this is a bad thing, is my first impression. That NB's should be more in line with other class' sustain sounds good to me, though at a cursory glance it may be a tad much. With good group support such as Worm and Orbs however I think sustain would be all around fine.