Mana cost on Shadowknight Drain spells

[Taedirk]

The mana cost on Scream of Hate and Scream of Pain seem fairly steep. Given the current resist system, my Shadowknight (L16) can drain his entire mana pool on a blue con and not get a single Scream of Hate to stick. Not that big of a deal, until you compare SoHate/SoPain's mana costs to other Shadowknight spells.

Scream of Hate (Shd/15): 85 mana, Drains 8 ATK, gives same to SHD
Scream of Pain (Shd/30): 100 mana, Drains 10-20 AC, gives same to SHD

Compare to:
Despair (Shd/9): 12 mana, Debuffs 5 ATK
Siphon Strength (Shd/9): 5 mana, Drains 5-10 STR, gives same to SHD
Grim Aura (Shd/22): 25 mana, Increase ATK by 5-10
Shadow Vortex (Shd/29): 40 Mana, Drains 10-40 AC, gives same to SHD

You can reach the same effect as Scream of Hate for half the mana or less. Especially considering how small a Shadowknight's mana pool can be at the lower levels, it seems like a large cost for such a small benefit. Also, compared to higher level taps, these cost more than the Shroud of xxx equivalents (Shroud of Hate: 60 mana, Shroud of Pain: 75 mana).

This is my first go at the suggestion forum, so please tell me if I'm aiming this in the wrong place or should have something stronger than this to back up my suggestion.

 

[vistachiri]

Yeah I play an sk too and scream of hate always seemed to be a bit expensive, especially compared with the other spells. If it could be improved at all that would be nice, but really it just doesn't go on my spell list ever atm. Much better and lower cost ones available.

 

[Laksha]

often find it helpful getting into a group with a enchanter, untill you get high lvls and you have your own mana regen buff or MC AAs. Other than that mana regen items for SKs with good ac/hp is the shark skin shoulderpats with FT2, those are the only droppable item i will equip on my SK, the rest are too weak on HP adn AC. That should help a bit on spells that cost alot of mana.