Life Drain / Drain Life: Works on Undead &...?

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tinkthank said:
This question has been asked before, but my searches reveal contradictory statements. I'd like to try to find some sort of definitive answer to the following questions:

1. Is Life Drain / Drain Life functionally identical but with two different names? Or are they somehow different, and if so, how?

there are 3 different Versions of lifedrain :
the built in lifedrain ( vq , ryleh illithids , vampires , probably ghosts too can't check this atm ) is AP.
the lifedrain SPELLs are AN .
and finally item lifedrain is neither ap nor an just normal damage .

tinkthank said:

2. I *think* I have seen commanders equipped with a Wraith Sword or similar gain hitpoints when hitting undead enemies. Thus it seems that Life Draining also works on Undead. Can this be corroborated or falsified by an "Authority"?

did the commanders perhaps have regeneration too ( like vq etc. ? )
otherwise the possibility is that lifedrain does only NOT work on lifeless .
would be logic : ghouls etc are undead but they have still flesh + blood because the deceased only recently . so you can get still life from them while you can't get this from a real skelett .

tinkthank said:


3. I thought Undead were lifeless. Maybe not. In any case, however question #2 is answered: Will Life Drain work on those flagged "Lifeless"?

it still does damage but doesn't replenish life .

tinkthank said:

4. Some items (such as the Wraith Sword) cast "Drain Life" automatically when you hit with a melee weapon. Others allow you to cast the spell "Drain Life" (or Life Drain?), such as the Standard of the Damned. Is there a big difference here in the way the spells work?

Thanks much.

yeah the difference is the kind of damage . see question 1 .

p.s. soul vortex is probably AN lifedrain .