Talk:Blood Ritual

This spell seems sort of pointless
If you look at the battery role as increasing overall energy of the party, this spell at blood level 12 and max enchantment mod only yields an overall profit of 5.6 energy (13 seconds of 3 energy regen * 1.20% from enchantment mod - 10 energy cost of spell). 5.6 energy for sacrificing 17 % of your maximum health is rather paltry and begs the point of why one should have this spell for a battery build or any build? A battery based off this build may as well be replaced by another spellcaster.

Now compare this spell to Blood is Power. At lvl 8, Blood is Power does 5 energy regen for 10 seconds. Boost those 10 seconds up to 12 with a perfect enchantment mod and the target gets 20 energy, a party surplus of 15 energy when you factor in the 5 energy cost.
 * Well its give a nice boost even if you are not a primary necro, and is use mostly where a battery is not really useful and the necro use another elite. --Aratak 15:57, 12 June 2006 (CDT)
 * also not ethat in many situations necros will have energy wasted becasue of soul reaping, so your figure of -10 energy is suddenly irerelevant, as teh energy will be regained seconds later (this is assuming pve play) so you are saccing health for 15.6 energy, which, imo IS worth it. True, its not worth basing a build around, but its a nice addition to a build, so that they can keep their elite free. &mdash;The preceding unsigned comment was added by 86.138.90.157 (talk &bull; contribs) 13:30, 29 June 2006 (CDT).
 * BiP is great, no arguments, however, i use it a lot less then Blood Ritual, for three important reasons:
 * BiP is elite, preventing the use of other, posibly more valuable elites, like Order of the Vampire or Spiteful Spirit.
 * BiP costs twice as much sacrifice. those few percent can be the difference between prevailing and being Ataxe food.
 * people often don't need +10 energy regen for 10 seconds, thats 3.33 energy per second, faster then most casters can use it. however, +7 regen for 13 seconds is more useful, because you can make better use of it without hitting the upper limit of your energy.
 * --Honorable Sarah [[image:Honorable_Icon.gif]] 13:45, 29 June 2006 (CDT)
 * Also, even if all this spell does is move energy around, it's helpful for transfering energy from those with lots (necro with soul reaping or e/n with attunements or prodigy) to those who have to conserve (monks). --Kiiron 04:49, 6 July 2006 (CDT)
 * Did it occur to you that it's not used on the caster? So the -10 energy isn't a factor in the spell's effectiveness. The point is that it gives your target +3 energy regeneration. That's going to give your target around 10-15 energy when the duration wears off (give or take for mathematical error). — Jyro X [[Image:Spiteful_Spirit.jpg|25px]] (contribs) 14:04, 2 October 2006 (CDT)
 * Well Jyro, the issue here is not whether it gives the target a decent supply of energy, its whether or not the entire party gains from it. The irony is it seems that it would be better to just take out the batter necro with this skill and put in another caster. 68.62.133.196 07:49, 18 November 2006 (CST)

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All other stuff says "target other ally", this says target ally and has a note saying can't be used on the caster. Kind of pointless &mdash; Skuld  04:25, 4 July 2006 (CDT)