Oddities in Assassin Dragon Talon kick

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Thanks for the info.

And now for another oddity (with Dragon Talon and Blade Fury being "pseudo-weapons")...

I've been looking at some of the weenie unique items that drop for me (Andarial runs are, as another poster noted, surprisingly good for drops) because I know they can potentially be cubed to elite--since all elite weapons have decent damage it becomes more an issue of what the mods are on the unique. So I was paying attention when I got one of the "joke" uniques and realized that in some sense, in v1.10 beta, it is an uber item for Assassins...

Serpent Lord, (normal) Long Staff
misc minor mods; 50% target defense
and, to quote Arreat Summit: "100% Mana Stolen Per Hit (Yes that's correct!)"

And yes, indeed, my kicks were skimming 100% mana, as were my shuriken. Both benefit from the 50% target defense. The kicks do not care that the weapon has sucky damage. The shuriken damage is poor of course, clearly needing the staff to be cubed to elite.

So, for proof of concept, I was spamming out my whole globe of mana in Mind Blasts and then kicking some poor senseless monster to instantly refill the whole globe. This could be quite a useful weapon switch if you don't like going to town for mana potions in middle of long battles.