Yep, RNG is a b!tch. Don't worry, you'll get one eventually.
Before Stormconure changed it the Debuff was Withered, and he said the idea was from Minecraft.
I originally had the debuff named Withering. Thats where minecraft came from.
Right, yeah i meant to do that... Im normally good about that
Ok, so how should it be nerfed? Earlier i had it to where every time an enemy loses hp there is only a 50% chance to heal you but people though that was too UP.
It should be nerfed to "no life steal." Any amount of life steal messes up the balance between offensive power and self preservation. The SotC represents one extreme while the VK's represent the other. Giving the Scourge a bit of both would be unfair and unnecessary.
Ok, then maybe nerf the damage? Or have something else thats corruption-only be able to lifesteal?
It outperforms the Terra Blade over a distance by a long shot.
SOC isn't meant for taking out large crowds. That's what the Paladin's hammer is for. The SOC is good because of it's devastating range, firing it in the dungeon non stop will pretty much kill anything walking into the room. Also, it's extremely effective on single beef cake enemies such as paladins due to rapid hits.
But even so, if you mean to fight single beefcakes, then the lifesteal does next to nothing. And like you said, it would take quite a while to hit an entire crowd with it.
The thing is, the SOC is extremely easy to spam, the vampire knives lack homing, and the life steal you get from them is extremely small when used on pretty much any hardmode enemy. Each of the SOC's little eaters can home, Even with only 1hp per hit gained, The SOC tends to hit 4 times each, one for the main, and around 3 for the small ones. In that case, the SOC would render the Vampire knives useless.
But remember that the VN throw multiple knives at once as well. Against large targets like bosses, they would be infinitely superior lifestealwise, because they would all hit at once. So it balances out: this debuff thing is better against crowds of enemies, while the knives have better lifesteal against bosses.
I'll give you that, but to do that, you'll need to get close to the boss if you want more than 3 hits with the knives. And I'm pretty sure nobody wants to face tank something like Duke Fishron.
Fair point.
Not to be discouraging or anything, but that would make the SOTC overpowered, because for one, it has much more range, speed, and damage than the vampire knives, and two, it splits into more projectiles that start homing in on impact.
