The Hidden Forest

Thought it might be nice if we compiled a list of useless spell lines that are either useless altogether, or just underpowered.

My contribution is this:

*The shadowknight lifetap DoT line (lower level versions are also necro spells).

In their late 50s, SKs get access to the lvl29 necro spell Vampiric Curse. This DoT drains 21hp/tick over time and transfered it to the SK/necro. Most characters regenerate more health than that. Even at lvl70 Inruku's bite only transfer 175/tick which doesn't even make a dent thier health. I think both the necro and SK versions of these types of spells could use a boost.

Vampiric Curse could use a boost to about 150ish/tick and Inruku's bite should be atleast 500hp/tick.

If you upped the vamp heal to 150 it would be insainely powerful to the low lvl necro.... it would heal more than the cleric hot at around that lvl plus do damage to the enemy. The fire line dot around that lvl(Burning Blood) only does 50-70 dmg per tick. If you kept the same scaling throughout the line at lvl 70 a necro would do about 2600 damage/heal a tick with their lvl 68 spell Fang of Death. SK spells are more for agro than effect really. Sk's also get a bit more personalized spell list from 61+(when the pop spells started). If you want to talk about a spell that is pretty well useless is our darkness lines! Monsters don't run away, they die fast so generally kiting is a waste of time and it's broken so we can't split lol(sadly some view this as a "fix"). Really with the exception of boss fights I hardly use any dot at all because it's a pure waste of mana.

As a long time SK player, that's a very bad idea to update those dots.

Why is it a bad idea?

It completely overpowers the Shadowknight, as your dot heals are now completely better than your direct heals.

I don't think 150/tick in my 50s would do more than my direct lifetaps. I remember tapping for 500-700ish (with foci) in my 50s.