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Emotional Vampire; Benefits?

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Deadmanwalking:
Well, you can live off emotions rather than food and drink, so that's a nice benefit. Aside from that you pretty much need to kill to get much out of it, but mid-combat healing is both rare and really powerful, so that's actually very worth it all by itself.

luminos:
Did you miss the part where it lets you make mental attacks?  That is kind of useful.

Victim:
It lets you heal in combat.  It also can grant +1 attack after you've hit once.  Any sort of accuracy boost is a pretty big deal in this game.

surarrin:
...Let me specify.

Outside of combat. General use.

Deadman has answered it best so far.

Why are you all so combat minded?  ;)

iago:
Deadman and Luminos are hitting on what's best about this power. There's noncombat uses, but the ability to use an emotion as a gateway to making mental attacks on a target shouldn't be underestimated, especially given what a few hits to the mental stress track will do to a wizard who wants to cast a few evocations.  Yes, Incite Emotion is something you'll find alongside it pretty often -- it's easier to force an emotion to be there than it is to wait for the opportunity, and that costs ya -- but I think you could do some interesting things with it just by itself. (I'd be particularly interested in seeing a creature/character that uses it to feed on rage. Combat is chock full of rage. Ooh look! An angry sorcerer! Nom nom)

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