[The Panther]

ALL life drain should be summarily eliminated from the game. I mean, the bane lord comes with a powerful bane blade that you need to sack for a wraith sword? How utterly stupid is that?

Life drain is busted and severly unbalanced. Inherent life drain is perhaps the primary reason the VQ is, by far, the best SC Pretender out of the box.

Without life drain, you just might see an Ice Devil die to 50 troops surrounding it, just like it ought to be.

In fact, I am very disappointed with the game after watching battle after battle where a single commander with life drain eliminates unlimited size armies. I have been on both sides of that equation and it leaves an extremely poor taste in my mouth. In fact, I have already decided to not enter anymore MP games until the SC problem is fixed, which I believe is caused by life drain more than any other single thing. Having life drain reduce fatigue is even so idiotic that I can hardly believe it actually happens that way!

If this is not fixed until Dom3, then so be it. If that is not fixed in Dom3 either, then I will cross that bridge when I reach it.