“Umm, 2 to 3 spells? Yeah, if you a total moron and don't know how to heal”
Ehhh!? Come again?
“Just plain old raw skill.”
Go back to the brigand fort you liar. Take your arti-***** theories with you, I got no arties. Are you into EPA fights? If yes say no more PLEASE.
“Many other ppl have created uses for it and shown how useful it is”
Point me someone in vampire form during realistic PvP situations and I buy you a beer.
“Life leech, poison "immunity", stamina regeneration, mana regeneration - those are very nice benefits”
Yeah but they don’t out-weight the disadvantages!
“And lastly - to use a magic reflect spell, get a scroll of magic reflection (lowers the difficulty to 3rd circle) and some jewelry with +magery. You only need to cast it once (or twice if you wneed to toggle it off again).”
No [censored]. So all of us better have magery on, or depend on a skill we don’t like or we ‘d be mages FFS… Not a solution, I don’t see why I should be forced to use this method to be able to play in Vampire form after spending 100.0 points to have that priviledge as it is.
“-25 fire resist is truely a minor drawback; the garlic based weakness is what kills it for me as my necromancer is a mage, but if I had a necro-warrior, I would probably play in vampiric embrace 90% of the time.”
You mean you don’t have one? NEEEEEXT. And something else…Minor draw back? Right, ok sure dude. You all rock and we all suck and you know the best PvP , we heard this one before. As for garlic weakness : in vampire form I’ve been cured and healed by 100s of people and had no damage from it. Used potions too. Either I’m bugged or I don’t know what. Weird isn’t it. Irrelevant but had to mention that bit.
“40 physical resist is fine for any and all class though; weapons just don't do that much damage. As far as I know, the chance of being one-hit killed at 40 physical resist is close to 0.”
I agree and in fact I always have my PH low, so that I return lots of damage when paladins consecrate.
“The entire point of my post, however, was that the fire resist thing is very, very minor drawback when given the proper setup.”
It’s not a minor drawback, trust me. That’s because the proper setup will cost you a [censored]’ lot, get that into your mind. Be it time, resources, or gold. And it won’t be that proper, unless you sacrifice your FC/FCR jewels for pure resist ones. FC/FCR jewels never have good enough resists. I know, I’ve been looking for ages.Not even plain FCR jewels have decent resists, not even the really good ones. Also think about the dudes who (given they STILL exist) do not have a crafter. What do they have to do to use Vampiric Embrace? Bend over to someone? Please….
“Try getting some runic hammers in that case. If I wanted a pure fire reisstance suit, i would know throwing maybe a peice of dragonscale oarmor or two in, with some good resistances, is typically good place to start”
Try getting this, try getting that, this and that all over, and then some more of that, and this. Right. You see my point again. I’ve also, FYI, tried to experiment with dragon scales. Remember by the way they’re not med-able, and mana regen is not enough with vampire.
“Typical mentality that thinks only that DI counts”
All my DCI HCI is on shield and weapon , thank you. And I face the same problems with him. And the rest 101100000001101010 people who are NOT USING vampire form.
“cast a shadow wisp familiar. Everytime that thing crinkles is 12 mana back in your pocket. Hell, you will be the life of any party out there because of that (especially paladins and mages in the gauntlet). Finally let's not forget that vampire form provides a unique defense against poison attacks. Very useful as most non artied mages tend to be poison happy.
And let's not forget a good set of HCI jewelry and weapons, infectious strike, strangle, and evil omen can be quite devastating, and ontop of that, you will be healing everytime you wang on a mage.”
Wisp dies always, and unpredictable “crackling”. Defense against poison? Orange Petal, same thing. Besides GM poisoner with deadlies will get you in vamp(AGAIN) you deaf man. As for the rest, read my post again. YOU GET IT IN EVERY FORM IF YOU WANT, EASIER EVEN.
“However, since you don't do anything but whine and complain about your inferior abilities, and lack of knowing how to use a combination beyond point and click, I will leave you be.”
Oh puh-leaaaaaaaaaaaaz…… Mistah Godlike…I’ve been spending a lot of time experimenting with character in vampire form. Sorry you can’t believe it.
All I have to say after reading ALL of your posts people is that still, noone can convince the majority here that this spell is usefull for just about ANYTHING. I’d be happy to have that spell as said in lower necro skill with even less advantages like no poison immunity but with no fire resist loss, or have it for show and RP’ing, and have something better for a spell that requires 99.0 skill.
