Draining Strike
- 4m Range
- Fast
- Melee Skill
- Skill Type: Melee, Swordplay
- Your prowess is unmatched, and your skill with the blade literally drains the Power from your foe.
Swordplay Finisher:
Enables Re-centre.
Improves the Enervating Counter effect if present. - ... Common (Main-hand) Damage
- Target is drained of ... Power
Attacker gains ... Power - Attunes: 3
Requires: 7 - Cooldown: 15s
General Information
Class: Mariner
Trait Tree: The Rover
Rank Needed: 0
Effects
Using this skill refreshes the duration and improves the potency of 
Debilitating Counter if already applied to the enemy target.
Using this skill applies 
A finisher has just been used to the Mariner, which allows the use of 
Re-centre. This effect is consumed by Re-centre or the next Swordplay skill.
Skill Interactions
The following Swordplay skills empower Draining Strike:
Advance and Sweeping Advance make this skill deal +50% Damage.
If Debilitating Counter is present on the enemy target, the effect is refreshed, as well as increasing the potency by 2.5% and the duration by 15 seconds.
Trait Interactions
- The trait
Conclusive Strike in the Duellist trait tree increases the damage of this skill by up to 30%. - The trait
Test Defences in the Duellist trait tree makes this skill tier up Critical Aim on the Mariner upon Critical hit, up to 3 stacks. Further ranks allow the effect to tier up to 5 stacks. - The trait
A Watched Pot in the Rover trait tree makes this skill reduce the active cooldown of all Haversack skills by 1 seconds upon Critical hit. - The trait
Sharpened Blades in the Duellist trait tree increases the damage of this skill by up to 10%.
Tracery Interactions
- Swordplay Finisher Damage increases the damage of this skill by up to 22%.
- Fore Skills Damage increases the damage of this skill by up to 16.5%.
- Swordplay Damage increases the damage of this skill by up to 11%.
- Finisher Skills Reset Salt Cure makes this skill reset the active cooldown of
Salt Cure.
Armour Set Interactions
Equipping 2 pieces of the Umbari Armour of the Blade-dancer armour set acquired from the Depths of Mâkhda Khorbo Raid increases the damage of this skill by 10%.
Equipping both pieces of the Insignia of the Shagâni Duellist jewellery set acquired from the Legacy of Morgoth Instance Cluster makes this skill apply Lunges from the Deep to the Mariner.
Tactical Information
Draining Strike is most commonly used to refresh Enervating Counter on the enemy target. This skill should be used frequently to keep the Mariner topped on power.