[CUnknown]

Norfleet, your reasoning why lifedraining swords shouldn't be nerfed is flawed.

The arguement for nerfing lifedrain goes like this: Lifedrain is a must-have. Anything that is a "must-have" is too powerful and needs to be nerfed or made more expensive. Therefore, any cheaply available lifedraining items in the game need to be nerfed.

Your counter-arguement (as I understand it) has two parts and goes like this:

1) Lifedrain is a must-have in any game, so it's okay that it's a must-have here.

This doesn't counter the "lifedrain needs to be nerfed" arguement because lifedrain is still a "must-have".

2) You can get lifedrain by other means than weapons, so lifedrain doesn't need to be nerfed.

This simply doesn't follow. Cheaply available lifedrain in either weapon or armor form still needs to be nerfed since it is a "must-have."

I agree that any "must-have" in a strategy game takes away the strategy, and so I agree with nerfing lifedrain items, or making them more expensive. I think a good nerf would be to cap the maximum hitpoints at 100%, so you couldn't go over your maximum. As I understand it, lifedrain lets you go over your maximum hitpoints, which seems incredibly powerful to me.