Guild Wars 2

Can someone explain this???

The following skills and traits have had their Life Steal functionality standardized, fixing several exploits and bugs across the game: •Dark Field Combo Finishers •Projectile
•Whirl

•Necromancer •Vampiric

•Revenant •Enchanted Daggers
•Assassin’s Annihilation
•Focused Siphoning

•Thief •Leeching Venoms

•Runes •Rune of Vampirism
•Rune of Scavenging

•Sigils •Sigil of Blood
•Sigil of Leeching

•Consumables •All consumables that randomly steal life

Yeah Im wondering same thing, what does mean standardized? And theres no Vampiric Presence (necro) on list, but I think that is also “standardized”.

Anet please care to explain?

I haven’t tested it in pvp yet, but they have removed the life steal damage to WvW gates. If life steal damage is normalized for PvP that would mean that using life steal will no longer penetrate armor, protection, and most noticeably signet of stone and damage immunity (different from invuln).

Basically, it means that if something is supposed to be immune to damage, you can’t life steal from it anyway.

It will still ignore armor and other damage reductions, but, for example, you won’t be able to harm a Ranger using Signet of Stone that way.

Sigil of blood doesn’t do damage or heal anymore, and sigil of leeching only heals.

Salamander.2504:

Sigil of blood doesn’t do damage or heal anymore, and sigil of leeching only heals.

I can confirm this.

ronpierce.2760:

Salamander.2504:

Sigil of blood doesn’t do damage or heal anymore, and sigil of leeching only heals.

I can confirm this.

What does it do now?

mrauls.6519:

ronpierce.2760:

Salamander.2504:

Sigil of blood doesn’t do damage or heal anymore, and sigil of leeching only heals.

I can confirm this.

What does it do now?

Sigil of blood does absolutely nothing now—I’m guessing it’s bugged. Sigil of leeching heals for about the same amount as before but doesn’t do damage.

mrauls.6519:

ronpierce.2760:

Salamander.2504:

Sigil of blood doesn’t do damage or heal anymore, and sigil of leeching only heals.

I can confirm this.

What does it do now?

One doesn’t do anything and Leeching doesn’t deal damage when it’s consumed, it only heals you. This standardization thing they did bugged out many life steals, including Revenant’s trait life steal, which hits for like 2.1k atm.

2.1k? The 3 sec cd trait?

mrauls.6519:

2.1k? The 3 sec cd trait?

I think it’s 1s ICD.

Salamander.2504:

mrauls.6519:

2.1k? The 3 sec cd trait?

I think it’s 1s ICD.

Only if used with projectiles.

Drarnor Kunoram.5180:

Basically, it means that if something is supposed to be immune to damage, you can’t life steal from it anyway.

It will still ignore armor and other damage reductions, but, for example, you won’t be able to harm a Ranger using Signet of Stone that way.

But why does Rev still steal while Endure pain is active?
I still dont see what has been changed on life steal skills.. what i do see different is that its bugged on sigils like blood and leeching

Is this a bug? can you devs explain more???

nicknamenick.2437:

Drarnor Kunoram.5180:

Basically, it means that if something is supposed to be immune to damage, you can’t life steal from it anyway.

It will still ignore armor and other damage reductions, but, for example, you won’t be able to harm a Ranger using Signet of Stone that way.

But why does Rev still steal while Endure pain is active?
I still dont see what has been changed on life steal skills.. what i do see different is that its bugged on sigils like blood and leeching

It appears I was sorely mistaken in my assumption. I have no clue what they were talking about since it seems like most of them are terribly bugged now.

My interpretation was that they where standardizing the base damage and base healing of life steals along with how they scale with stats.

Although it’s impossible to test since everything is bugged atm.

Drarnor Kunoram.5180:

Basically, it means that if something is supposed to be immune to damage, you can’t life steal from it anyway.

It will still ignore armor and other damage reductions, but, for example, you won’t be able to harm a Ranger using Signet of Stone that way.

Unless I’m going crazy this hasn’t happened. I faced off against a Rev on my War and still managed to get my HP leeched while using Endure Pain.