I thought this up in another thread, planting it here as a suggestion.
So first, move CoEW into the Darkness tree. Maybe move Aura of Ebon Wrath there too for consistency.
Second, while standing in the circle, any time the player uses an offensive Life Drain effect they gain additional stacks of the circle's damage buff. These stacks fall off quickly, so the player is encouraged to keep using Life Drain effects inbetween pushing out higher damage attacks.
This makes the circle more useful than it is now, while also preventing it from just being tacked on to every dps build. Also feels very Darknessy, stealing life force from your enemies and using it to empower your own attacks.
Would require other adjustments, etc...
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Now, to add to your suggestion, I'd almost prefer the Fear part to be an Advantage. Additionally, a Poison and Dependency advantages, so that it works with any of the 3 "life drain" powers. Each would "apply" 1 stack of Fear, Poison, or Dependency, and only do Refreshing of the 1 stack every 3-5(?) seconds.
Or, just the 1 Advantage that does all 3 for 3pts? Too much?
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No, you're getting the Circle for the benefits the circle provides, which would be significant. Tossing in the ability to then escape power requirements for other powers is too much. It'd be fine with CoEW as it is on live right now. Remember that they put these requirements in place for a reason - better to work with things the way they are than try to pretend they're not.
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So by itself, that's still not much of a reason to take CoEW. Being able to also apply the drain's aoe component debuff would sweeten the deal without being a full replacement for the more mainstream appliers of those effects (well, for dependency and poison anyway, since the proposition was only for a single stack).
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