Enervate vs Energy Drain

[lugoman]

Can an end game sorc get their necro dc high enough that enervate's 1d4 drain will be enough to fod mobs or do you absolutely need energy drain's 2d4?

[Shade]

You can get your necro DC high enough that you don't need to use either. Requires a ton of extremely rare gear tho.

But there's no reason not to get energy drain and drop enervate.. Energy is just much easier to fit. Lvl4 has a ton of nice spells, lvl9 I don't see any choice really (ED, Mass Hold, Wail)

Only issue with energy drain is spell resistance. You need a very solid score to land it on tougher mobs as you probably won't have a spell pen IX item, but will have a IV.

Main area i have trouble with that is Tower of Despair. I find it best for a single sorc to handle all the orthons, so melee DPS can focus on what they do best. But handling that entirely alone and effectively demands a high spell pen.

So if you run tower allot, you may wish to keep enervate just for that.. As 1 enervate + flesh to stone should work most of the time, and if not 2x +stone will work.. And work more often then 1 energy drain due to SR.

Recently got a spell pen IX item myself, so I won't get enervate back.. But it has it's place for some.