I decided to try 100% LL weapons and wraithform today, and the results were... well nothing like I expected.
I thought wraith worked like vampy, and from what I remember of using wraith years ago, it did. Every hit leeches some straight % of the damage you do as mana. That would seem to be what UO Guide says as well.
Well, that is NOT what I noticed. I was fighting Rotten Corpses in Doom. My average DS hit lands for 180 - 350 damage, so if I was leeching 10% per hit, and my DS's cost 22 mana, I would have expected to basically always be at full mana. Instead what seemed to happen would be that I would spend most of my time at roughly 0 - but then when someone died my mana would go back up to full??? Carefully watching my status indicated that my mana was seemingly going nowhere on every hit.
Looking at my buff bar, it says 5% mana "drain". I have 0 SS, and per UO Guide, I should leech 8% of my damage at 0 SS.
Am I (and by me, I mean UO Guide) wrong about something here? The only thing I can think of would be that Rotting Corpses have 0 mana, and therefore I cannot leech any mana?
I thought wraith worked like vampy, and from what I remember of using wraith years ago, it did. Every hit leeches some straight % of the damage you do as mana. That would seem to be what UO Guide says as well.
Well, that is NOT what I noticed. I was fighting Rotten Corpses in Doom. My average DS hit lands for 180 - 350 damage, so if I was leeching 10% per hit, and my DS's cost 22 mana, I would have expected to basically always be at full mana. Instead what seemed to happen would be that I would spend most of my time at roughly 0 - but then when someone died my mana would go back up to full??? Carefully watching my status indicated that my mana was seemingly going nowhere on every hit.
Looking at my buff bar, it says 5% mana "drain". I have 0 SS, and per UO Guide, I should leech 8% of my damage at 0 SS.
Am I (and by me, I mean UO Guide) wrong about something here? The only thing I can think of would be that Rotting Corpses have 0 mana, and therefore I cannot leech any mana?