drain life has no MR check??

[NTJedi]

Originally posted by Norfleet:

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Originally posted by rabelais:
It seems like if you are going to have a prec 100 armor negating, fatigue restoring, no-MR SC killer, that death magic is not the place for it.

Feels like it belongs in Death Magic to me. It causes *DEATH* after all. Where *ELSE* does it belong?

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Perhaps it would seem more natural to come from blood magic or at least mixed with blood magic. Since Blood is the essence of life... and the spell is drain life.

Originally posted by Norfleet
It causes *DEATH* after all.

There's lots of spells from all schools of magic which cause death.

[Cheezeninja]

It belongs in Death because if you harken back to the days of Magic The Gathering you will remember it was a black magic spell. That provides all the justification necessary to make it death magic.

*cough*

[Norfleet]

Originally posted by NTJedi:
Perhaps it would seem more natural to come from blood magic or at least mixed with blood magic. Since Blood is the essence of life... and the spell is drain life.

That spell exists also, called "Leeching Touch".

[Jack Simth]

Of course, that particular game (compared to Dominions) also merged fire with earth, air with water and astral, and, incidentally, blood and death.

[NTJedi]

Originally posted by Norfleet:

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Originally posted by NTJedi:
Perhaps it would seem more natural to come from blood magic or at least mixed with blood magic. Since Blood is the essence of life... and the spell is drain life.

That spell exists also, called "Leeching Touch".

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There's quite a difference between Leeching Touch and Drain Life. A range difference of about 20... making one a ranged attack and the other more of a melee attack.

[Vynd]

Nevertheless, it does seem rather remarkable that there is absolutely no way for a living creature to defend against Drain Life. And wasn't there another thread floating around somewhere pointing out that Drain Life fatigues its target even when it misses?

[Norfleet]

Originally posted by Vynd:
Nevertheless, it does seem rather remarkable that there is absolutely no way for a living creature to defend against Drain Life.

Well, dying seems to work pretty well. Can't be drain-lifed if you die.

And wasn't there another thread floating around somewhere pointing out that Drain Life fatigues its target even when it misses?

That was about life-drain attacks. It seems to be, if anything, a peculiar interaction between said attacks, and general on-hit effects, and mirror images.