Guild Wars 2

trying to decide between the 2 with a high crit build.

anyone tell me if the damage + lifesteal heal equals about the same as the flat out damage from the air proc? or is the air proc damage like 3 or 4 times the damage of the lifesteal and heal?

if the damage + heal is close to air proc ill take the lifesteal because its on a 2sec cool down aposed to 5 sec cool down + im in a toughness build necro

Don’t know the damage of lifesteal but the air does a lot of damage and I can’t picture them doing equal damage with a heal thrown in

There is no damage increase for life steal sigil, unless there’s an increase or something for necro, but I don’t play it so… Life steal only gives you around 900~ Hp back at lv 80 and I believe it doesn’t scale with healing.

(I’m assuming you mean sigil of blood)

///Edit///
My mistake, Rune of Vamp heals for 900~
Sigil heals around 450~

The lifesteal is always going to be lower than direct damage. Apparently the current CD on Sigil of Blood is also 5s and doesn’t work on 2h weapons …

sigil of blood deals 452 damage to your target (when you’re level 80) and heals you for 453 + 1/10 of your healing power life.
sigil of air deals 1.1 x your damage coefficient (damage = weapon damage * power * 1.1 / target’s armor)

something to note: sigil of blood is bugged. when it works, it has a 5s CD and not 2s. on top of that, some people are reporting that it doesn’t work on 2 handed weapons.
another thing to note: blood and air share a cooldown. so when one proc’s, the other has to wait until that cooldown is done before it is possible to proc.

I use air all the time on my necro (staff/dd), It procs often enough. I tried it on my theif with a precision build and it procs every few seconds as almost all my hits are crits.
I also like the death animation when it kills on proc

I ditched sigil of blood a long time ago because the CD was too long to make it feel effective or reliable, especially when I was running it on a Signet of Malice thief. The frequency with which it would proc was not nearly worth the investment, and I’ve been happier with other sigils since then.

Do more damage, if things die faster, they stop doing damage to you!