Drain Life

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Drains the life force of any nearby creatures, healing the user depending on the damage dealt.

Drain Life is a monsters-only spell that deals negative energy damage to every enemy in the caster's line of sight and restores half the damage dealt to the caster. In effect, this allows the enemy to smite you and all your allies and heal itself in a single action. Negative energy resistance reduces its effect, negating it entirely at rN+++.

The following enemies cast Drain Life:

• f Deathcap (1d23 damage)
• 3 Soul eater (1d21 damage)

History

• In 0.32, Drain Life's damage will be increased. Also, it will ignore AC again.
• Prior to 0.29, Drain Life didn't check AC.
• Drain Life was added in 0.12.