Talk:Spellbook of drain life

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Monster experience?

If you cast drain life on a monster, are they worth less experience when finally killed? -- Kalon 22:33, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

-- Yes, unless you kill it in one single casting. Gaining exprerience is based on the monster's current experience (before the spell) Source:Exper.c#experience, and drain life updates a monsters level only after it has determined the monster will survive Zap.c#line330. Tjr 22:06, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

what do you mean by this?

Someone added:

" An exception is for dealing with certain very tough opponents that teleport away from you to heal themselves, such as the Monk Quest Nemesis, Master Kaen. They can not revover their drained levels, and will eventually expire. "

What is that supposed to mean? Perhaps a French-ism expirer=die? The paragraph above it is about gaining experience from run-in-the mill monsters. I changed it to emphasize tough monsters cannot heal drained levels in long battles. Tjr 16:10, 13 May 2009 (UTC)