Guild Wars 2

I dont want to beat the dead horse again, but this skill deserves another discussion.
I hope developers read the merged topic, where we have seen awesome ideas how to make this heal better, but because of the amount of outrage it caused here is a tl;dr.

• ICD. ICD everywhere. It kills the skill totally.
• The stack that appears on the target is a great idea, it already limits the amount of siphons you and others can get from it in a good way.
• The 5 second duration is just too short, especially with the current 1 second icd.
• Long cast time. Paired with the short duration, its just becomes stupidly high risk (no offense) with not that great reward. Even without the icd, 5 second is more than enough to kite, evade and it leaves the necro without a heal.
• Long recharge. 35 second by defeault is just way too much. It must be reduced to at least 25s, maybe 20s it depends on how the numbers works.
• Only proccing from players. Well actually its a good thing, it wont get out of hand when the minion horde jumps on somebody who gets marked.
• No passive damage. Why? Most of us agree, it would helped on the current scenario when almost everytime the necro is the focus target, but without the passive damage and the icd again on the passive (why?) it just dont help.
• Horrible scaling. Actually its the overall problem with siphons. Siphons used for healing, but the damage portion keeps it on an unnecessary low level to be “balanced”.

If i missed something, please contribute in a constructive manner.
And a bonus question for developers / balance team:

Why did you changed it so drastically compared to the leaked out version? That needed some tweaks too, that true, but the live version is just provoking, disappointing and makes no sense. Only benefit it has compared to the Blood fiend, that it cant be destroyed, but its underperforms in every other aspect.
So please enlightnen us what did you think in the balancing process of this skill and how did you want to deliver it.

The scaling on it actually isn’t bad. The damage portion is minute, but that’s not the real focus of the skill anyway.