Guild Wars 2

Since the patch i’ve been wondering if there’s any vamp builds that are now viable in PvE and WvW for D/D, i really loved Vamp/ Blood in GW1 and i’d love to try and play it now in GW2 even if it’s not the meta as long as i can do decent/have fun.

First of all there are indeed viable Tanky Vampiric Builds useful mostly for PvE (WvW and Tpvp less so). You’ll probably want to drop the Off hand Dagger for a warhorn though due to locust swarm giving a lot of extra AoE and the useful interrupt, or even a focus for bouncing regen/vuln and the utilitiy of boon removal/chill. After talking to other players, the most effective builds for WvW and tPvP seem to be bursty condition fear-terror builds due to their mix of damage and control, but require a realatively high skill level to pull off.

Now for PvE. The 15 point Blood Magic Trait Vampiric was buffed a bit since it now scales off of power or healing power, I can’t remember which, but it really helps with sustain. I’d recomend going against PVT (soldiers gear though) as another player reccomended a mix of knights and berskers for burst and toughness. As far as traits though, you’ll want to go 30 into spite for close to death and 20 or 30 into Blood for siphoning and well CD/improvement traits, and the rest are probably best suited for death magic or soul reaping, as gear will give you enough precision to crit a lot. If use staff over axe, you could get greater marks or staff mastery, but if you do go with axe either dark armor or ritual of protection would be useful.