Guild Wars 2

There’s been threads about this before, but frankly I can’t find em no mo.

Two questions:
1. Does +toughness decrease lifeforce depletion in DS when hit? (does toughness work with lifeforce). Atm I believe the answer to be yes.
2. Does vitality increase max life force pool? Atm I believe (that is, I think it would make sense if) it doesn’t. However, http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Life_force says it does.

Ty in advance.

Yes and yes.

I think some clarification is still in order.

Lifeforce depletes naturally via percentage. Skills like Lifeblast if I remember also depletes the LF bar via percentage when using it. So increasing Vitality does not effect these percentage base losses. What increasing Vitality (as well as the Soul Reaping trait) does is allow you to soak up more direct damage that would be dealt to you while in Death Shroud.

I may be wrong on the Lifeblast point so somebody correct me if I goofed on that.

Lifeblast doesn’t cost life force to use. I remember it used to in beta, but not anymore.

I stand corrected! Much obliged for updating me on that

Sho thing, suga.

Max vitality roughly doubles the damage sponginess of LF. That is to say, 1% of vit LF is worth as much dmg as 2% of no vit LF.

Kyskythyn.6471:

Max vitality roughly doubles the damage sponginess of LF. That is to say, 1% of vit LF is worth as much dmg as 2% of no vit LF.

And I would expect max toughness to do the exact same thing.
So in the end it really doesn’t matter which one you choose (or both)