# Manaentzug - steal mana

**URL:** <https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/manaentzug-steal-mana/87877>\
**Category:** Feature Requests and Game feedback\
**Created:** [June 5, 2025, 1:48pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/manaentzug-steal-mana/87877 "2025-06-05T13:48:58Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Katrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ad7895/32.png) [@Katrin](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Katrin)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2025, 1:48pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/manaentzug-steal-mana/87877/1 "2025-06-05T13:48:58Z")

</div>

I play in german and maybe it’s a transition problem. I wanted to sort my troops to see which of them “steal collected mana from an enemy”, but I couldn’t find something like that in “Zaubereffekt - Spell effect”, not “stehe Mana” nor “Manadiebstahl” nor "Manaentzug " nor “Mana entziehen”, nor “enziehe Mana”… Just something about resources, not mana, but that means gold. I entered “entziehe” in the text field and found some. Please fix it. It’s an effect like all other.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Stratelier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/977dab/32.png) [@Stratelier](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Stratelier)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2025, 2:08pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/manaentzug-steal-mana/87877/2 "2025-06-05T14:08:35Z")

</div>

The spell effect to steal enemy Mana is currently classified under (in English) “Steal Skill Points” – e.g. Sir Mordayne – while Mana Drain is likewise classified under “Decrease Skill Points” – e.g. Manticore.

This is absolutely a problem when searching for this effect specifically, because if anything Mana level is a “resource”, NOT a “Skill Point”. And the current effect called “Take Resources” literally only applies to Gold, because you cannot manipulate other in-battle resources like Souls, Treasure Maps, Traitstones or Gold Keys.

So IMO, what these all need is:

- Rename “Take Resources” to “Steal Gold”  
_(Note: this is not a perfect solution, since the filter includes troops like Broker of Greed that reduces the user’s own Gold, not the enemy’s)_
- Split stealing Mana to “Mana Steal” (same wording as the “Mana Shield” trait)
- Split draining Mana to “Mana Drain” (same wording as the “Mana Shield” trait)

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Katrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ad7895/32.png) [@Katrin](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Katrin)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2025, 2:31pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/manaentzug-steal-mana/87877/3 "2025-06-05T14:31:41Z")

</div>

@Stratelier  
great you see the problem, but you talking about the English version. My question still keeps what it means with the german version? I hope everything will be good with all the synonyms exist in German.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Stratelier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/977dab/32.png) [@Stratelier](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Stratelier)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2025, 2:36pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/manaentzug-steal-mana/87877/4 "2025-06-05T14:36:04Z")

</div>

Localization is just a visual thing, the actual behavior is the same under the hood.

I could certainly _attempt_ translating the text into German, I just don’t know if it matches the _actual_ in-game German translation.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Katrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ad7895/32.png) [@Katrin](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Katrin)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2025, 2:43pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/manaentzug-steal-mana/87877/5 "2025-06-05T14:43:09Z")

</div>

@Stratelier  
The spell effect to steal enemy Mana is currently classified under (in English) “Steal Skill Points” – e.g. Sir Mordayne – while Mana Drain is likewise classified under “Decrease Skill Points” – e.g. Manticore.

Found “Fähigkeitspunkte stehlen” (by word steal skill points) and “Fähigkeiten verringern” (by word decrease skills) . If you didn’t had explain it before, I wouldn’t know what’s the difference or what exactly it means. It really would be good if it would be more clear.