Guild Wars 2

Hi guys,

i just compared these two. (tested with 370 healing power) against the Elementalist training NPC

And to me its pretty clear:
Dagger Mastery is nice, because it gives you CD reduction for ALL Dagger skills, but for more survivability i would take Bloodthirst.

Here are the numbers:

With Bloodthirst : Life Siphon 12 sec CD 9×320 healing = 2880

With Dagger Mastery: CD: 10,25 sec 9×217 healing = 1953

Bloodthirst is currently bugged concerning the benfits for other life siphon abilitys but i would take it over dagger mastery anyway.

Hope this was helpful to some of you!

If you are using the main hand dagger, take Bloodthirst. If not, dagger mastery is likely better.

Well consider this. Bloodthirst only affects your dagger skill, siphon life. It does not effect the amount of health you get from crits, hits or minion attacks if you spec into that. Dagger mastery only speeds things up a bit so life siphon will be up more often. If you spec far enough, why not take both?

It affects Siphon on hit … but not the the 50% in the tooltip.

In my test: 25 hp per hit with dagger mastery 29 with bloodthirst.

But when this is fixed it should be 37. Since your daggers hit really fast this is quite a nice hp regen !

Ah! Hope they fix that soon then. Now if only minion hits could be affected by it…… Dream.