A Sad Historic Day

Drain Life, how we loved you. How iconic you were, how amusing Drain Tanking has been in years - decades - past.

How I will miss you.

I have retired Drain Life from my action bar. As an ability I have gotten less use from than Unending Breath this expac, I have come to the heartbreaking decision that this once colossal, iconic ability of the Warlock Class - Affliction in particular - now no longer has any business, has no longer a single use case, to take up a place on my action bar.

The once lauded “F” key will now be occupied by my brand new Mad Queen’s Mandate… as it’s technically a better “Drain Life” than Drain Life is, with the ability to actually save me if it happens to be up.

I hereby send this ability to the grave and this post hereby constitutes my “F” in Chat, for as I strike the F button, it will no longer be for the same reason as before.

Yeah I tried to drain life in a delve to heal myself…. Got killed and was like “Well…. That was a waste of time to cast. Next time I’ll just use a healthstone.”

Well, even when Drain Life was good you should still be using the Health Stone… lol

The issue right now is you may as well just keep casting Drain Soul / damage and relying on Soul Leech

If you’ve got Brann as healer, you shouldn’t need to heal yourself, or your pet, at all.

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