No, not every trait suffers from the deficiencies I outlined in my original post, all at once and even if there were some that did, I'm not talking about those ones. I'm talking about this one. Somehow you have associated 'extremely useful' with 'not design deficient' ... that in itself makes no sense. I could design a trait that makes you immune to everything on every auto attack as well ... that's also 'extremely useful' ... but it's about as bad a design as you would ever see. So no, just because you have identified some situations and combination of skills that would make this trait work well does NOT mean it's not designed poorly. From what I can tell your entire logic with this is 'this is automatically badly designed and all because in my opinion the traits and stuff that get tied into it shouldn't be needed to make it useful'. From what I can tell tons of traits from most of the classes I've used especially over time have always followed a tied in to make them useful approach. Your opinion on whether something works or not ingame is literally just opinion at this point given that I have used this trait a lot as of late and its been highly useful for my scourge builds. It actually helps a lot more then people would seem to realize. Being able to cake on extra layers of absorption without worrying about when exactly you proc heals actually helps a ton and I've been loving using blood bank. As for Brujeria - You can say something like that all you want but in my experience it has actually been a massive help even in group vs group. It has compared to death magic quite a lot and I tend to find myself picking it rather then dm. When your ripping enemy stab and mass corrupting you basically always succeed in popping it in group vs group fighting and suddenly going up 20k hp into a 9.5k barrier when the enemies had you down to half health - actually turns the tide of a lot of fights. Also, the extra emerging barrier when you proc any other healing skill when engaging enemies actually helps a ton.(usually best with signet of vampirism if not corrupt building)