Guild Wars 2

Even with the 20% increased effectiveness (down from 50 originally) I’m not seeing it affecting any siphon traits, at least not in any build editors.

Okay, lets just say for test purposes, that i’m using 30 in blood magic: Bloodthirst, Vampiric Precision and Vampiric Rituals. (and i have a sigil of intelligence on my main hand weapon.) Will Well of Blood actually be a crit, and siphon health per pulse along with the base heal per pulse? Or does the critical hit only apply for the first pulse?

I know that i’ll at least gain an additional small pulse of health from Vampiric Rituals, but will it crit for every pulse, giving me a total of 89 more siphoned health? (39 from critical hits and 50 from siphoning wells.)
Oh, and I forgot to include the minor trait Vampiric as well. So that would be a total of 120 more health siphoned per pulse…Or am i wrong with this?

I don’t believe Well of Blood can trigger Vampiric or Vampiric Precision as it does not normally affect enemies.

Siphons don’t crit.

WoB will siphon when traited with Vampiric Rituals according to the wiki if the enemy stands in it; been so long since I used those traits my memory is fuzzy though.

Vampiric should trigger with Vampiric Rituals, because you are hitting a target (if there is one.)
And also, if you spec at least 15 into blood for whatever build you’re using, does it display the life siphon health and damage on your attacks in game? Maybe it’s just not all the gw2 build generators are fully updated, though they do have all the new skills/runes/sigils and trait changes there…

All wells will siphon with Vampiric and Vampiric Rituals no matter what, so long as there is something to siphon from. However, a well has to deal direct damage, and that damage needs to crit, to proc Vampiric Precision.

Well of Blood deals no direct damage though, so it can’t crit. You can also notice this because dropping well of blood on a golem in heart of the mists won’t drop you into combat, despite dealing damage to the golem via siphoning.