Not in the slightest bit. they're worth more when your in ng lvl range and have +wit +int, fighting mobs weak agains't magic and dark attacks suffering from dark vortex and surrender to darkness(kamael skill) while doing this you have a a grade mage weapon with emp SA and used a life stone to get emp while having emp 3 acumen3, and siren dance
Life scavenge is useless, especially now that mobs drop herbs. WAY back in the day, it was kinda nice when you couldnt afford potions and you were low lvl, etc. But now, its useless, especially at higher levels.
The drain is worthless unless you want to just do straight damage. The HP restored isnt noticable. Now that drains can crit again, its an option in PvP if you want to pray for a crit. DA's have poor matk, however you can probably do a drain equal to a focus buffed crit from your sword on an enemy with poor mdef like a dagger, etc. Also nice to stun an enemy and drain them as it has a lower chance to break the stun.
I use my drain frequently. Mainly in pvp. Does decent damage. Lfe scavange.. what's that? lol corpse burst used sometimes when fighting group mobs in like Ancient Battleground and stuff.
well, about 'drain health' skills, in ct1 you get another enchanting skill option for it. which is higher hp return when u use it. forgot the name of it.
i didnt check life scavy to me that skill dont exist. draining 100 hp from dead mobs is trivial, this is what it used to be, didnt try it in ct1
OK as a fellow DA let me be real with you... corpse drain... used... but not good the Death Blader corpse drain is 500x better than ours
Life Drain, I only use it in certain situations in PVP and only with bleesed spiritshots
Corpse plague: don't even waste your sp on it
Hamstring: good for pvp but I would use after a succesful root therefore when it were's off they move slowly and you can catch em easily or escape, PvE? worthless
that angel scare skill, you will barely ever use it as they're are few mobs that are angel type... some in the catas and very very very very very few hidden in the fields so far only found 3 and 1 was a quest mob so worthless
As a DA your best friend is shield stun, that skill will take you places then you have your other friends
Shackle, Judgement, and your soulmate the Dark Panther
Then you have your 4 passive buffs Resist arrow, Majesty, Magic barrier, Reflect damage
that angel scare skill, you will barely ever use it as they're are few mobs that are angel type... some in the catas and very very very very very few hidden in the fields so far only found 3 and 1 was a quest mob so worthless
Just curious...but what lvl are you? I disagree with this part of your statement. Have you ever been to VOS? TOI? or even the back of WOA? These are all great places to lvl fast if you are in a solo. I can lethal angels in the back of WoA for 42k exp and it has a decent land rate.
KnightofDarkness got this right in my opinion. I'm only mid-60's but those he listed are my staple skills too.
I do use life drain in pve however. It pulls nicely and since I'm generally hunting greens (or even light blues) when solo, it will occasionally crit and kill in one shot. In the low 60's (61-63) this happened quite often on the gargoyles near Silent Valley (up on the plateau).
4 self buffs, shield stun, judgement, panther--pull with life drain at times. Toss in shackle for Pve crowd control when needed. If you are hunting angelic mobs--the banish seraphim skill will put a smile on a DA's face. Watching a yellow-conned mob 6 levels above you go down to 1 hp is just fun!
Life drain can hit relatively hard in PvP (at least at my levels) but even with bsps-A and m-attack boosts when it crits it isn't going to worry anyone. Against someone my level it will hit for 3-400hp. It might crit for 500'ish. I can hit them three or four times with the sword for more damage than that in the same time. As for ranged attackers--most of the time in PvP for me seems to be spent trying to shackle and stun them. That life drain is a relatively slow cast. Maybe if you get a chance to land it first...
Life scavenge isn't worth the SP.
Mostly I wanted to comment on Life Drain in Pve. It has it's uses. And since solo I don't generally run out of mana it's no problem to toss Life Drain at times.
As for use of skills in PvP? I'm so bad at PvP that it isn't even funny.
Hmm It might be the fact that my luck with stun and root has killed every other skill but, Angelic Icon for me is bad cause I never get to use it in the catas because A Dawn usually wins so its mostly dark attributed mobs running around and B I can never remember to get soul ore :( :( :( Life drain casts too slow and I hit harder than it crits O.o and its up to date too. I only find use in PVP when in the right moment and I love it for a sec when someone forgot their jewls ^^, I don't generally hunt with panther out(why? i don't know myself :( ) Corpse drain (only on Death Blader) Corpse plague (Not even usefull in large AoE as it hits 15% on 1/10 mobs) For Angel Kill skill I have to go to some other areas with angelic mobs and do some testing but also
Drakkos what is you m attk??? I never 1 shotted anything with life drain not even 1/2 hp and rarely 1/4 on crits
matk is only about 190--I guess with one of those magic pots it goes up like 10% or so for 2 minutes which would only make it about 209 or so.
I know at 63 the gargoyles were light blue to me and the orc mercenary captain guys were green and in the leveling I did there over some weeks I must have one-shotted 20-25 of them with Drain health.
I know it doesn't make any difference and there is no stat change--but I never had it happen when I used the tallum sword. Not once. When I switched to a DLE awhile back it seemed to happen more often--though of course there is no obvious reason that would make a difference.
What buffs did I have? Couldn't tell ya. Probably 80% of the time I hunt solo with no buffs. But then I could have had SE buffs or prophet buffs when the one shotting occured I suppose. I don't tend to have access to to many other buffs opportunities--and no one in our clan can provide buffs higher than level 65 for what that's worth. I never remarked at the time what my matk was or what buffs were in place.
I can tell you it happened though, even though I was just trying to pull the mob to me because I had extra mana.
I haven't one-shotted the mobs outside of Goddard (and I've killed tons of those), I dont recall one-shotting the Fields of Massacre mobs and I've hunted a lot there.
But on the plateau by silent valley it happened a number of times. I believe Spudnik might have been with me a time or two, I know Gritorian was on more than one occasion.
It's why I keep doing it--cause every once in awhile it makes me laugh to see them die (lol).
matk is only about 190--I guess with one of those magic pots it goes up like 10% or so for 2 minutes which would only make it about 209 or so.
I know at 63 the gargoyles were light blue to me and the orc mercenary captain guys were green and in the leveling I did there over some weeks I must have one-shotted 20-25 of them with Drain health.
I know it doesn't make any difference and there is no stat change--but I never had it happen when I used the tallum sword. Not once. When I switched to a DLE awhile back it seemed to happen more often--though of course there is no obvious reason that would make a difference.
What buffs did I have? Couldn't tell ya. Probably 80% of the time I hunt solo with no buffs. But then I could have had SE buffs or prophet buffs when the one shotting occured I suppose. I don't tend to have access to to many other buffs opportunities--and no one in our clan can provide buffs higher than level 65 for what that's worth. I never remarked at the time what my matk was or what buffs were in place.
I can tell you it happened though, even though I was just trying to pull the mob to me because I had extra mana.
I haven't one-shotted the mobs outside of Goddard (and I've killed tons of those), I dont recall one-shotting the Fields of Massacre mobs and I've hunted a lot there.
But on the plateau by silent valley it happened a number of times. I believe Spudnik might have been with me a time or two, I know Gritorian was on more than one occasion.
It's why I keep doing it--cause every once in awhile it makes me laugh to see them die (lol).
Lol I couldn't even 1 shot some noob kamael I found disarming people and stun rushing in the arena I had to hit him with judgement before he died
Ditto on above, except I love the angelic skill. I hunt WoA or TOI and it lands respectably well. I don't solo much. Getting that lethal shot just makes me all warm and fuzzy, since all other times my opponent just yawns at me and I end up with carpal tunnel (unless kitty is saying hello to them).
I think Kamael should be angels ^^ ... they have a wing! it could happen! then we'd have a PVP skill!
I've not particularly bought the Life Drain skill up (my DA is mid-60's currently) - if I were to use blessed A-spirit shots w/ a common SoM would it make for a good investment of SP (for when I'm rooted or similar?)
I use aggression to pull generally, and I've actually found XP-ing is faster either in Vanguard or going into a pole party with me as the puller and fortessing up mega-pulls behind my shield.