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%.
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.