Newbie Questions Incoming!

[skaven]

Sorry if i am always checking out in the forum, but my timezone (Italy) means i play when there are few people to ask to.

Some questions:

1) What EXACT changes were done to Vampiric Embrace? I saw that the Fire Penalty was brought to -65 (instead of -25), but i think the life leech was nerfed too: someone can confirm or deny?

2) I crafted some runics and got really nice purple objects, some with 7 properties. As they weren't the stats i needed, i proceeded to unravel them... i expected Relic Fragments (Stats were well over 700, read that for a Relic the threshold was 500) and insted got Essences... and even RESIDUE? What is the threshold for Relic? 800? 900? And is there a penalty to unraveling crafted items as is for imbued items?

3) It is my impression or monsters hit really hard, harder then on OSI? I went to painted caves in full 70's, 40% HCI, 38% DCI, Vampiric Embrace, and Lurg trashed me... badly.. I mean, my weapon wasn't Top Notch, but neither was underwhelming (Soulseeker). Maybe is related to #1?

4) Does Luck work? I went to the ToT mines during the event with 951 luck. I expected to find better loot than when i went the week before with 0 ...
Instead i got crap unraveling loot and NO mini artifact (last week i got 2). And on with this... is the "+1000" luck Bushido honor boost working?

Sorry for the many questions, i expected more from my Sampire and was depressed ad the results... just thought i made something wrong..

Fabsm
NPA Guild

[Casho]

2.
- Imbuing Unraveling will now only give you a Relic Fragment when it's magical property weight is equal to or above 1050, as opposed to the previous 850. Also it has a 50/50 chance to give you 1 Relic or None. It's a coin flip. You will still get the other ingreidiants always.

viewtopic.php?f=13&t=8074&p=16275&hilit=unraveling#p16275

3.
Most monsters hit harder and are harder to kill then "normal". No skill cap, increased runics and higher stat cap is also not "normal"
+ I think some monsters hit a "lucky punch" from time to time.

Thats all I can answer, sorry.