Vampire casting Life Steal Missile above, compared to Fireball below.
The Life-Leech Ball or Life Steal Missile is the signature move of the Vampire Undead.
It looks and behaves similar to a Fireball, and since Vampires also cast Fireballs, it is easy to not notice the difference. The skills can be most easily identified by the projectile. The Life Steal Missile resembles a burning skull and causes the red life-stealing vortex to appear over the Vampire on a successful hit, whereas the Fireball is a sphere of fire and does not absorb life.
Mechanics[]
The caster throws a fireball-like missile towards the player or his minion/hireling that drains some Life and replenishes the caster's, as if a player had used a Life-stealing weapon. This skill can be considered a reference towards the mythical Vampires that consumed their victims blood to survive, except that they take it by a spell and not by biting their victim.
Damaging Skills
Fire — Apocalypse • Eruption • Fire Arrow • Fireball • Fire Bolt • Fire Hit • Firestorm • Fire Wall • Flame Circle • Grenade • Hydra • Incinerate • Incineration Nova • Inferno • Meteor • Minefield
Ice — Arctic Blast • Blizzard • Cold Touch • Fire Hit (Cold) • Freezing Charge • Frost Bolt • Glacial Spike • Hoarfrost • Ice Shards
Poison — Poison Bolt • Poison Breath • Poison Cloud • Poison Spit • Poison Spray • Poison Sting • Poison Strike
Lightning — Lightning • Lightning Arrow • Lightning Globe • Lightning Storm • Red Lightning Hose • Shocking Hit • Spark Defense • Thunderbolt
Physical — Bite • Blast Wave • Blow Dart • Charge (Berserk Charge) • Cleave • Corpse Cannon • Destructive Strike • Divebomb • Grab • Ground Spikes • Ground Tentacle • Leap • Javelin • Leech-life Ball • Pummel •Quake • Quill Dart • Slam • Snatch • Spine Dart • Strike • Swipe • Sweep • Whirlwind
Wind — Cyclone • Gust • Tornado
Magic — Beam • Blade Beam • Blast • Bomb • Bone Spirit • Cataclysm • Hellish Projectile • Nova • Slow Time • Tide • Torrent • Unholy Bolt • Volley • Wave
Non-damaging Skills
Indirect Attack — Blood Mana • Curses • Mana Rift • Minion Frenzy • Putrify • Spin Web • Stun • Vortex
Spawning — Bone Prison • Festering Appendages • Lay Egg • Minefield • Mystifying Growth • Revive • Summon Minion • Totem
Self-effect — Bone Armor • Burrow • Effigy • Fly • Frenzy • Heal • Shell • Teleport • Vile Effigy