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[LemmingofGlory]

'Obviously', you feel every forum should have at least one sarcastic dumb ass, so you volunteered for the job.

You are free to attack a person's points or the manner in which they make them, but it is bad form to attack the poster. Please refrain.

Ghastmaster's point, I think, is a valid one: not all differences from D1 were because some feature was broken. I find it unlikely the designers of D2 had Black Death's loathed lifestealing in mind when they designed penalties in D2. I also happen to think the most likely explanation of Black Death's HP-stealing ability in D1 was that it was added with single player in mind, where such a penalty is inconsequential since the character does not persist beyond a single play-through.

-Lem