Unmend and Unleash, Do i use after Abyssal Drain is learned?

[Slappah]

Excuse me because I haven't played in a while, just coming back.


But abyssal drain is the one with a heal when dark arts, no?

So you would want to use this when you could use the heal and have the mp to spare. If it's a really big trash pull you'll be getting some pretty nice healing out of it.

[Imoen]

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Yes.

Dark Arts + Abyssal Drain = Absorbs 100% of damage dealt as HP.

[Nektulos-Tuor]

Yes.

Dark Arts + Abyssal Drain = Absorbs 100% of damage dealt as HP.

At the cost of almost all your mana for a very little heal.

[Imoen]

At the cost of almost all your mana for a very little heal.

Depends on how many enemies are around you.

At level 60 you can have some solo fun running through Haukke HM pulling the entire large groups and sustaining yourself both mp and hp with only BP+DA+AD. Probably other ones too, just that is the only one I tried lol for the lulz.

[saber_alter]

Depends on how many enemies are around you.

At level 60 you can have some solo fun running through Haukke HM pulling the entire large groups and sustaining yourself both mp and hp with only BP+DA+AD. Probably other ones too, just that is the only one I tried lol for the lulz.

I have only found 2 instances where abyssal drain was worth using because blood price could maintain in current content: the final pull in the aery, and the first pull after the second boss of fractal.

...why does it even exist? it doesn't bring anything new to the toolkit, and is gimmicky like the rest of the 54+ abilities.

[Imoen]

I have only found 2 instances where abyssal drain was worth using because blood price could maintain in current content: the final pull in the aery, and the first pull after the second boss of fractal.

...why does it even exist? it doesn't bring anything new to the toolkit, and is gimmicky like the rest of the 54+ abilities.

Confused on this, if you have high MP returns coming in then you can afford to spend it, AD has higher pot than unleash. Why not use it if you have the extra mp coming in? You are either using unleash or AD... AD is higher pot... again if you can afford it why not? You can use DP too, but that is a separate 30s CD. I don't know what kind of pulls you are doing but there is plenty of opportunity in Fractal for this.

Also why are you responding to me talking about solo fun in old dungeons for hp returns on that ability? I fail to understand.

Like Sleigh said above.

Use Unleash if your MP is limited and you need to establish aggro badly. Unleash is cheaper than AD but produces the same aggro, at the cost of DPS. If your MP is fine there's little point to using Unleash.