>anyone test what this means to us? i havent played in a few days, prob wont
>this weekend either; stupid work. anyway, if i missed anything else in the
>patch message, feel free to mention it.
>
>belphenor
>
>>>*Spell Changes*
>>>- Shadow Vortex is now a "drain" spell.

I velieve they converted it into a lower form of Vampiric curse, that or
like a siphon str spell, the AC you Debuff the mob with goes to you, any
damage is healing for you. If it work the way I am thinking you should get
back 5hps for 10 ticks. I could be wrong on this, haven't hit 20 yet with
my necro, just hypothesising.

>>>- Siphon Strength will now stack with strength buffs and debuffs

you can now get str spell cast on you and siphon str will give you even
more str. As for Debuffs, it used to be that if you used impart Str and
gave str to someone else, pet or person, you could then siphon str from a
mob and you would negate the penalities of impart str as well as gain the
added str above your normal str. Which was kind of a bug, because now you
have more str than you started with and so does the person you imparted str
too.
Now, both spells stack correctly, If you impart Str to something, and then
siphon you will have your starting str.

>>>- Panic the Dead cast and recast delays have been reduced. In >>addition,
>>>the spell is less resistable.

Self explanatory. Now just need to see if it actually works any better.

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