About the Drain Spell

[Ootarion]

Concept wise the Drain spell is a nice idea, unfortunately in application it is useless, only has a potency of 80 and the amount of HP returned is far to minimal to be worth it, like with my lvl 53 RDM, it was only returning at best 44 hp per cast for only 88 hp restored if used twice in succession and add to the fact it has a 190 mp cost at my lvl.

While I get that this spell is not meant to be a brute force heal like Cure, Benefic, Physick or Vercure (which is way better then Drain and I'll be getting that in one more level), that doesnt mean that it should be so utterly terrible, I feel the damage it does is fine, but the healing return needs to be alot higher, not as high as Vercure no, just higher so it can be useful pre lvl 54.

I wanna point out that BLM and SMN will have it even worse with this spell since they cant Dual Cast like RDM can and I doubt a BLM is going to waste a Triple Cast on Drain.

Addendum: When I hit something with Drain at lvl 53, I get like 277 hp back (granted I do not yet have gear that is fully appropriate, but even in PotD this spell was worthless and gear doesnt even matter there.)

By the way, I am infact trying to use this spell against stuff my level and within appropriate range of the gear I am also using.