Drain Rework

[dynast]

The drain effect is just a mild annoyance that goes ignored most of the time and the *drain ego is irrelevant, so much so that it had to be buffed, but it still trivial for the most part.
I suggest drain becomes a stronger temporary effect like corrosion, *drain ego becomes like *corrosion(chance to be drained on being hit) and amulet of harm applies red drain when equipped.
Having more threatening draining enemies leads to more interesting combat scenarios instead of a afterthought about how drained you got that you have nothing to do about it.

[MainiacJoe]

I agree with your observations. The problem I see with this suggestion is that it will make drain death spirals more frequent. Every once in a while we see a thread about someone who got horribly drained and is in a hopeless situation. These threads usually end up with a diagnosis of poor tactics, and so that death is a learning experience. If drain is more potent, though, mere bad RNG luck might get a person into this sort of situation despite good tactics. Perhaps a cap on max draining should be added along with making it more effective?

[Siegurt]

*drain on equip or unequip isn't intended as a tactical concern, it's a stopgap against swapping frequency, while it's supposed to be a thing that you switch amulets when it's important to do so. for Harm, particularly, the concern is that you would want to optimally put it on while doing ranged damage, then swap it when something got into melee range, then swap it back, etc. leading to very tedious play. *Drain, in that case is intended to make it not-optimal to swap that frequently, hence making the amulet less tedious.

[dynast]

Sure, just have *drain drain you when removed aswell, but have it be temporary too.

[removeelyvilon]

"Tactics."