Devour Essence + Phlebotomist

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Sooo...I was testing this advantage earlier!
My powers are all from single balde except Drain Essence~ Was hoping to get really good heals from this since Drain Essence without the advantage healed for quite a bit! Now...When I got the advantage, it didnt increase the healing at all even if I had a bunch of bleeds stacked on the dummy, a super villain, and a regen person >.< So...Im guessing this advantage is borked? Or does the bleed effect have to be the one that bite causes? Anyways~ Tried using Drain Essence with the target bleeding, me bleeding, both of us bleeding and it didnt increase the healing at all :/ I had a big boost in heal when I ranked it up though... So is this advantage only for rooting? >.<

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THis sounds like it is broken, you should report it as a Bug in-game.

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it doesn't double the heal nor does it root while bleeding, but I only tested it on dummies in the powerhouse so I don't know

edit: actually, yes it does work, just not on dummies! both the doubled healing and the hold! tested using iron lariat's advantage bleed as well as bestial fury's advantage bleed

edit2: maybe it does work on dummies, but keep in mind that doesn't double the damage, but just the healing, like the description says, and there is no visible debuff

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Pfft...I guess that means the double healing only comes from supernatural bleeds :/ Oh well...Too late to respec for get phlebotomist instead of rank 3 :/ I no have moneee T_T

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I think it only works on the living and dummies aren't considered alive.

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There shouldn't be a difference between bleed and bleed caused by supernat attacks. Bug it. Either that or you missed something in the description.

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No I've notcied this too, i took Scything Blade because it stacks a bleed without having to use advantage points, but I get no double healing after putting the effects together I am going to test with a supernatural bleed and see how it goes.

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I think it only works on the living and dummies aren't considered alive.

Exactly that. Drain heals you only if you use it on a living person, and dummies are, well, dummies.

As of now, Powerhouse is only marginally useful, I am afraid.

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I tried it with my might character, and nada. Went outside of the powerhouse and tried it on a radiated, still living human. Do you need to have a bleed effect, or supernatual for your base power for it to work?

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The real question is if you are using the shallowtail cut or not on the scything blade.

shallowtail should count as a bleed, and as of now this is broken.

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I'm pretty sure that the healing bonus from phletobotmist got nerfed from +200% (double) down to 150%. Meaning if it healed for for 100 a tick before phleto, it should heal for 150, As for the root, it takes a second before it sets in.