Spells: Mana Drains should always return their full amount of mana.

[Jimjam]

According to a member of the enc community, Theft of Thought is only doing partial taps when their target is low mana:

Originally Posted by Vaarsuvius [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I was sieving and ToTing the King in Chardok a couple days ago and I will think it is already working this way on Blue. My last ToT cast did not give me the amount (9ish %) I generally get

This doesn't line up with expectations of how mana drains functioned prior to the 2005 class reinvisioning:

we will also be changing drains so that they only return the mana the NPC has instead of always returning the full amount.

If an NPC only has 100 mana and your spell does a 400 drain, you will only get 100 mana. This is a necessary change as most NPCs, including non-casters, are given small amounts of mana in order to power some innates.

i.e. prior to 2005 mana drain doesn't work as a tap - it simply gives you full mana amount for the spell regardless of how much mana the target had (as long as it had a mana stat?).

Mana drain also appears it should be working on NPCs with innate spells, not just caster classes (in 2005 many NPCs had these, but I suppose 2001 and earlier some NPCs like dragons, etc also did).