Lifedrain

[alexti]

Maltrease said:
BTW (why use the gloves when you could wield 2 swords of quickness for stronger attack and much better defense)?

Gloves are cheaper, they require different gems and mages to forge them. Though I don't usually find either option very useful. 1 sword of quickness + 1 area damage shield is more attractive in most cases.

[HoneyBadger]

How about that standard (two-handed staff) that from the description seems to do area-effect life-draining? Does it work, and what's the lowdown on area-effect life-draining, like soul-vortex?

[ologm]

Shadow brand is good it seems to do around AOE 3 10 damage with each attack.

Units with lifedrain as their natural weapon, aren't capped like the wraithsword is.

Quikness doubles the number of attacks and allows a unit to attack two different squares.

[Shovah32]

Just a small point: im pretty sure the 4 armed pretenders only have 1 misc slot, not 2.

[Corwin]

ologm said:
Shadow brand is good it seems to do around AOE 3 10 damage with each attack.

And is this a Lifedrain damage? And if so, how much HP and fatique can be restored by a single strike of Shadow Brand? Is it capped per unit hit or per strike?

Or is it just a normal AOE damage with 3-10 spell damage per unit affected, in addition to the normal weapon damage on one sodlier per square that was hit with the weapon?

[Taqwus]

At least, I seem to recall a Wraith Lord using it to some effect... but I might have been using Soul Vortex at the same time, which would obviously cloud that issue.

[NTJedi]

ologm said:
Units with lifedrain as their natural weapon, aren't capped like the wraithsword is.

Another reason why the Umbrals from Argatha are extremely powerful for only 2 death gems. It's a great unit to for casting Gift of Reason having a default MR of 18.