sampire

[whiterabbit]

has sumin changed? my sampy is not hitting for over 40 and leech life does not seem to be working well? using soul seeker ,vamp embrace etc.cons. weapon ,enemy of one and lightning strike. used to hit medussa for 140 or more now hitting for 30-40

 

[Mirt]

What is your chiv at? With the new chiv changes that could be the issue that your consecrate is only landing some of the time.

 

[Mr. Smither1]

If your sampire is using like low 60s chiv you will notice a big diff on your damage output and that effects your life leech. I have been told you need 80-85 chiv to do the same damage that you used to do before the chiv changes. I changed up my sampire's weapons for higher damage ones that have armor ignore.

 

[Mirt]

Yes that would be correct. Chiv now needs to be around 85 for most of the spells to work all the time, that being said I still have and use a template that is lower and it does work out pretty well. It just means that everything else has to go right.

 

[NuSair]

Something has changed- currently I am thinking it's with the leaches. Prepatch, I was able to solo Rikktor pretty effectively, since the patch- it has been not that easy.

And the change to Chiv has nothing to do with it, I have a 100% Cold Dragon Slaying leaf blade- I am at the damage cap.

 

[whiterabbit]

ok chiv is 71 raising it now see wot happens

 

[Mirt]

You are right about something changing with the leeches after the newest patch, but I believe the inital issue that was posted sounds like the changes that came after the chiv nerf.

 

[aarons6]

i wish they would change leeches back on ranged weapons.. i dont understand why my thrower can only have 28% mana leech while my swordsman can have 60%.

 

[yars]

i wish they would change leeches back on ranged weapons.. i dont understand why my thrower can only have 28% mana leech while my swordsman can have 60%.

^^^^this

 

[anna anomalous]

i dont understand why my thrower can only have 28% mana leech while my swordsman can have 60%.

same reason why melee weapons cant have 25% hit/defense chance

 

[yars]

same reason why melee weapons cant have 25% hit/defense chance

ive never seen a crafted/imbued weapon that high(not saying it doesnt exist)
post a pic if you could?

 

[yars]

nevermind i found one, seems a waste though.

 

[Ender]

Leeches seem awful recently. Like I run out of mana all the time.

 

[anna anomalous]

on ranged weapons, you can imbue up to 25% for def/hit. its just a different way of reaching caps. you compensate by not needing it on other pieces.

 

[yars]

a stranger thought, theres one artie throwing wep that has velocity, sure it would be overpowered, but doesnt it makes sense throwing wep's should have it imbueable as well? not that im advocating it.

 

[anna anomalous]

you can imbue velocity on a throwing weapon, if that's what you mean. it's the same as a bow, just can't enhance it with wood, so bows can reach 40% SSI, where as throwing weaps cant.

 

[whiterabbit]

ok chiv at 80 now trying to raise karma to see if my damage is any better

 

[whiterabbit]

nope no better

 

[Night]

It's not just weapon leech...wraith form mana leech has been sucking muchly since the patch too ! :-(

 

[E_T]

That's probably because Lightning Strike costs twice as much mana now.

Leeches seem awful recently. Like I run out of mana all the time.

 

[jbfortune]

I've noticed a difference as well. Not leeching hardly at all with my samp.

What's going on?

 

[Ender]

That's probably because Lightning Strike costs twice as much mana now.

I'm not using LS. And I have 40 LMC now, I had 30 before. Difference of like 2 mana.

 

[jbfortune]

Any update on this?

 

[Nyses]

I have still been out doing some solo spawns, some group spawns and all kinds of other things on my Sampire, I have not noticed a difference. I seem to leech and stay alive same as always.

I saw Medusa mentioned earlier, is it just her or everything else?

 

[jbfortune]

I'm finding it mana more to be honest. Getting DH keys was much more challenging although DH himself seemed fine.

 

[G.v.P]

Like others have noted, I don't know if everyone understands how big a nerf the lightning strike nerf was. It doubled the mana cost for LS. At 120 bush/parry you have a 33.33% chance of a crit, and maybe a 50% chance of leeching mana, depending on wep. When you roll the dice and get a crit/leech, you're on top of the world. If you fail to AI five hits in a row and you don't leech mana, then yeah, you lost 50 mana and can end up in trouble. Beforehand the LS cost was so low that you'd never really run out of mana before a crit/leech could save you.

I have no problem w/ Medusa after 5 runs (w/ group) on a 70 chiv sampire. Medusa still hasn't killed my sampire after I don't know how many runs. Killed my tamer one time, when I did it with another tamer just to see how it would go. Two tamers actually work pretty well, was my only death so far.

 

[Winker]

Like others have noted, I don't know if everyone understands how big a nerf the lightning strike nerf was. It doubled the mana cost for LS. At 120 bush/parry you have a 33.33% chance of a crit, and maybe a 50% chance of leeching mana, depending on wep. When you roll the dice and get a crit/leech, you're on top of the world. If you fail to AI five hits in a row and you don't leech mana, then yeah, you lost 50 mana and can end up in trouble. Beforehand the LS cost was so low that you'd never really run out of mana before a crit/leech could save you.

I have no problem w/ Medusa after 5 runs (w/ group) on a 70 chiv sampire. Medusa still hasn't killed my sampire after I don't know how many runs. Killed my tamer one time, when I did it with another tamer just to see how it would go. Two tamers actually work pretty well, was my only death so far.

Aye its the lightning strike nerf that hurts me the most. I would like to have seen an up of the % to 40% for critical hit