Damage modifications

[Squalish]

It doesn't seem to do much.  A test can be arranged as follows:

NM Meph will kill your maxed (as in 23/23, pretty easy to arrange) skeletons due to the poison cloud (pick players4+ to give him some HP).  It is a race between the skeletons regen and the poison.  If you cast Life Tap on Meph, your damage rate will slow down.  The skeletons _should_ be gaining HP whenever they hit, but what happens is that you lose more skeletons.  Life Tap seems not to help skeletons, perhaps it works for melee players (I have none).

Meph is not the only monster that LT seems to be useless (for skeletons) against, if it wasn't for Lower Resist and Firewall, it would be pointless.  There is a good chance that when you think LT is working for skeletons, it is merely the high regen rate.

NM and hell Meph are leech immune, as my fury/feral WW found out very quickly.

Leech immunes are, to my wolf and to characters that rely on leech to survive, now more powerful than any of the other immunities barring physical, and they now occur in many monster classes they didn't before. For example, I find myself unable to kill skeletons for any extended amount of time unless there is a leechable skeleton shamon-type thing to ressurect them, paradoxically.

Does a Prayer Merc help?