Ok, many players may not agree with this, but I do not see the usefulness of the
Life Tap spell at all, even with a cleric around. As a mage, even with all the high level SP spells, I never run out of SP stones in a given quest, grind session, or KQ, and even in the rare case that I do, I have about 100 or so T3 SP Potions (Currently Overstocked LMFAO). I think that this would be the ultimate spell for a mage to have if you could use you magic power to heal yourself like I've seen in other games among magic classed characters. Come on OutSpark!
I mean, you could balance it with a significant cooldown time to keep people from spamming it, and entirely relying on it like they wannabe clerics or something. I just don't find it very helpful, and dangerous, as I'm at the point now where I have huge monster fanclub following and don't need to lose additional HP.
Some will also say that it speeds up the grinding but not really in my opinion. If you around my level or so, you have about 80+ SP Stones, plus whatever potions you have on hand, not to mention the fact that you can be also be cheap and shroom in between mob respawns. I have rarely seen a player use up all of his/her stones in an abyss party, and by the time that happens the drop inventory is full and we need to restock anyway (unless you got the full backpack). I just think it's a stupid spell, and we (as mages) need something to keep us alive for a few seconds while we are trying to survive certain blows between potions and stones cooldowns:
Fighters have defense.
Clerics can heal.
Archers have....bows and arrows lol (don't hate I LOVE archers)
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