Guild Wars 2

We’ll I’ve been curious about using a vamp build and I was wondering if anyone has ever fully tried it? Like what I mean is by using healing power gear?

If so, what would be better clerics or maybe magi?

How well does the life steal scale by?

Is it worth it to invest for healing power gear?

Simply – Its pathetic. Even with over 1,000 Healing Power i was getting like 40-50 heals from the Siphon traits. I would say dont bother with it.

Serious answer: First, never consider Magi, better run around naked as that is probably as effective.
Life stealing has a scaling but it is so small that it doesn’t profit enough for the heavy loss in dmg. If you want to go the healing power route then a net gain in support capabilites through HP comes from traits like transfusion, Well of Blood and regen(Mark of Blood). Vampiric has nothing to do with it and won’t enhance your performance in any noticeable way.
You should also be aware that clerics gimps your dmg by a large amount and depending on the content you want to do with your necro i would strongly advise you against getting a cleric set (fractals, dungeon farming, small scale pvp environments). Settlers is somewhat better since you kind of only need one stat for condi builds to become effective, so you might want to look into that too.
Also noteworthy: there was a pretty good guide around some time ago about a knight vampiric build for wvw. It achieved decent sustain through bufffood and vampiric precision coupled with high crit and multi target skills like wh5 and plague.

Not so serious answer: Wait for 10th dec and roll a guard.

ArmageddonAsh.6430:

Simply – Its pathetic. Even with over 1,000 Healing Power i was getting like 40-50 heals from the Siphon traits. I would say dont bother with it.

Because healing power doesn’t affect siphons.. lol

Minion master in Soldier’s gear is the best siphon build you can have. Even then, it has its glaring issues.

Kahrgan.7401:

ArmageddonAsh.6430:

Simply – Its pathetic. Even with over 1,000 Healing Power i was getting like 40-50 heals from the Siphon traits. I would say dont bother with it.

Because healing power doesn’t affect siphons.. lol

Life leech scales with power for the damaging part and healing power for the healing part.
Pre bloodthirst you get a 0.004 scaling, meaning for 1500 additional healing power/power you deal 6 additional damage /heal 6 additional points per hit. (This might be a bit outdated but no significant improvements have been made)

Kahrgan.7401:

ArmageddonAsh.6430:

Simply – Its pathetic. Even with over 1,000 Healing Power i was getting like 40-50 heals from the Siphon traits. I would say dont bother with it.

Because healing power doesn’t affect siphons.. lol

Healing DOES affect it, Its just pathetically low. Until they get around to FIXING Siphons and such a Vamp sort of build wont be possible.

Thanks for the replies. Was curious about life stealing I see it isn’t worth it. Even the new heal does seem to make it worth it either.

Life siphon works alright. It is just that builds which benefit from it have either low hp or armor or both and it doesn’t work against high dmg bursts which happen all the time. That’s counting out minion master which is probably only truely viable siphon build until minions die in oh so frequent aoe.

I really do suggest trying out some siphon builds but do not rely too much on healing power, they’re fun to play with but do not work against high dmg pressure and it also requires that you are able to hit target with high rof dagger, which is a bit problematic too itself.

What comes to healing power I personally think it should be removed from game and healing skills should be just balanced around traits, weapons sets and utility skills.