Felhunter's Tainted Blood

[Midnight]

Greetings again all, I have another question

Before today I had been solo'ing with my Succubus as I like the damage she can do, and I'm starting to build enough HP to tank ok. Today though I hit a spot with some casters that were really making life difficult, and remembering that the Felhunter had Spell Lock, I thought I would give him a go. I was pleasantly surprised to discover that I took the mobs down in about the same time as I did with the Succubus, so I guess the Felhunter can do some ok damage too.

The one thing I really liked was the Tainted Blood, but I'm a little confused on exactly how it works. What I'm confused about, is when I mouse over the Tainted Blood icon that shows on my Felhunter, it gives the description "Drains 17 attack power when hit. Stacks up to 5 times." When it says "Drains" does it simply lower from the target, or does it drain into the Felhunter, thus increasing his attack power?

The reason I am confused is because I have Drain Life, which transfers health to me from the mob. And Drain Mana, which again does the same. Does Tainted Blood work the same way?

[Wencit]

To my knowledge, it simply lowers the attacking(debuffed) monsters attack damage by the stated amount for each debuff on it. So for example, the first time a mob attacks the Felhunter, he gets the debuff placed on him, his next attack the damage will be lowered. He gets another debuff stacked on him his damage goes lower. For this reason the best strategy with the Felhunter is to send him in first and let him get hit a few times before you start to cast. That way, by the time you pull aggro off the felhunter, the monster should have at least 2-3 debuffs on him so his damage to you will be lowered as well. ;)

[Midnight]

Yes I noticed that it was each time the mob attacked my felhunter, that really helped when I got two or three in a pull. So it doesn't convert the attack power into my Felhunter? That's a shame, would have made me switch to him full time as a solo pet.

[Asket]

Wencit got it right. Each time a mob hits your Felhunter and the debuff is applied, that mob does less and less damage.

[shaidan]

Combine it with Curse of Weakness and the mob does very very little damage to your pet(seen targets that normally do 80-100 damage a hit brought down to 20-30 a hit max). Also a trick for you all... Devour magic creates agro. Not a whole lot but it does create it. I like to pull with Curse of Weakness and as the target is coming at me manually cast devour magic and send felhunter to attack. Every time the target will turn on my felhunter. Wait till the 3rd or 4th tainted blood to stack cast another devour magic and then hit the mob with corruption, immolate and commence to wand the mob down. IF you do happen to pull agro the tainted blood will last long enough that the target doesn't do much damage and its already nearly dead as is. It works even better if your soul linked.

Felhunter also tears through the dragonkin casters near ST. The warrior types destroy him but the casters you can grind on all day long without even taking a break other then to find more.

Ya I love my felhunter I use him more then any other pet.

[Vector]

Felhunter is also an excellent pet for grinding the caster ogres in the courtyard outside the DM entrance areas. You can make continuous laps around the arena taking down the casters with no downtime. Great place, seldom camped at all, and easy to get to.