Drain Essence

Mage skill · Arcane line · tier 4

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Little purple imps run to the enemies and come back with the stolen life.

It has no cooldown: it is always on while it sits on the hero's active bar, and does nothing anywhere else.

Values by rank

Drain Essence scales with Lifesteal. Its value at each rank is 168 + 48 × rank:

Rank	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Value	216	264	312	360	408	456	504	552	600	648
Lifesteal	+2.16%	+2.64%	+3.12%	+3.6%	+4.08%	+4.56%	+5.04%	+5.52%	+6%	+6.48%

Lifesteal is a percentage stat, so the value is used as written (in basis points, shown here as a percentage), times the skill power.

Lifesteal = value × skill power
skill power = 1 + 1% per point in the other Arcane skills + 2% per rank of each skill that boosts it

How to unlock it

1
Rank 5 in Arcane Shield or Teleport Tier 2 or tier 3 of the Arcane line.
2
Hero level 22 at the earliest There is no level requirement, but a hero gets one skill point every 2 levels.
3
One skill point per rankUp to rank 10.

Rank 5 in Drain Essence opens Singularity.

Mastery and synergies

Line mastery: every point in the other Arcane skills makes Drain Essence 1% stronger, up to +40% with all of them at rank 10. Its own points do the same for the rest of the line.

Drain Essence has no synergies: no skill boosts it and it boosts no other skill.

Arcane line

Skill	Tier	Type	Cooldown	Scales with
Arcane Missile	1	Direct damage	6 s	Chaos Damage
Arcane Shield	2	Shield	12 s	Absorption
Teleport	3	Movement	8 s	Dodge
Drain Essence	4	Sustain	None	Lifesteal
Singularity	5	Ultimate	16 s	Chaos Damage