ToME: the Tales of Maj'Eyal

Trying out some of the Necromancer changes in B40 and as a whole like it a lot, but when I saw how high the sustain cost of Vampiric Gift was I was surprised. At 260 mana, it is almost impossible to use when it is available. It opens up at level 12 but unless you have a ton of + mana equipment. With a cost that high it is unlikely to be really usable until level 30+.

I would like to see the cost of this to go down to around 100 or maybe 150 on the high side.

overgoat wrote:Trying out some of the Necromancer changes in B40 and as a whole like it a lot, but when I saw how high the sustain cost of Vampiric Gift was I was surprised. At 260 mana, it is almost impossible to use when it is available. It opens up at level 12 but unless you have a ton of + mana equipment. With a cost that high it is unlikely to be really usable until level 30+.

I would like to see the cost of this to go down to around 100 or maybe 150 on the high side.

I'd say that 150 is cheap for an effect this powerful. Maybe it shouldn't open until level 20-something, because it's not feasible before.

As an update: Once my necro made it up to the low 20's he did have enough mana to sustain the 260 cost. Luck in finding several high +will and +mana items helped a bunch.

I would still say moving this talent to having a higher level requirement would make sense.