Life Drain

The Life Drain is a magic weapon dropped by the Crimson Mimic found in the Crimson Biome during Hardmode.

When used, it deals constant damage to all enemies near the cursor's position, as long as the distance between the player and the cursor is unobstructed. A stream of red particles flows toward the user from each targeted enemy. While the weapon is in use, the user's life regeneration rate is increased. The weapon will drain mana as long as it is in use, regardless of whether it connects with enemies or not.

The Life Drain is unable to deal critical hits, and does not trigger either Spectre Armor set bonus.

The best modifier is Mythical.

Trivia

 * Life Drain employs a significantly different mechanic from the Vampire Knives weapon, which actually heal the user based on damage dealt. This weapon instead increases life regeneration while enemies are being damaged, and so is much less powerful. Both weapons are, however, very thematically similar being based around stealing health and focused around the Crimson Biome.
 * This is a useful weapon against worm-type enemies since it counts each segment as an individual target, however it doesn't work that way against Destroyer
 * It does however work against the Eater of Worlds, but due to this being obtained from Underground Crimson you will be be required to obtain it from an artifical Crimson Biome or from an other world.

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