When Vampirism Haywire you get double the leech. Yes life leech is process as a spell and get both magic power bonus and haywire critical. Vampirism should really be used with staves instead of swords. Massive leech, haywire leech, and support spells at super low cost is way better than 16 counterattack.
This is a bug and will be fixed in the next patch. Haywire is only supposed to happen to spells, not physical attacks.
Lol that's too bad. The Haywire leech is so awesome at the moment. Since Vampirism is really "out leech or die", it will probably get pushed over the edge after the change as most vampires are barely surviving at this point.
The only reason why Vampirism IS good right now, is because of a bug/feature that allowed you to leech from corpses directly beneath the enemies you are currently fighting. So, if you funnel a monster zoo along 1 tile for example, you'll pretty much leech to full life on each hit after 4-5 kills.
@srulz Really? Can you prove that's whats happening? It doesn't really make sense for that to be the case. Each hit should be increasing in recovering health based on how many monsters you kill in a row.
@Davidb1111 Yup I just tested it. It is indeed how vampirism works. Having a bunch of corpse on that one tile will make your leech go up and up. Can't assume the game to be working properly enough to make sense at this point.
It's kind of funny actually - Haywire is only happening when it explicitly <i>shouldn't</i> atm. And I wouldn't be surprised if vampirism gets a buff after they fix the bugs.
