Guild Wars 2

so i see they mentioned using Blood Magic for support but please dont make it just about that.. i still dream of viable syphon builds..

5 minutes on google would have told you that atm the Devs are convinced on letting siphons heal through DS. They mentioned some kind of Vampiric Aura as support in BM, but nowhere they said support would be exclusively on BM.

i’m already aware of that. but if it stays close to what it is now it will still be very weaksauce even if it heals through DS.

IMO, the only way life siphon support would worthwhile to bring to group content is if the life siphon damage is good. The two facets are mutually inclusive: if life siphon is still terrible, noone will want Vampiric Aura for their group; if Vampiric Aura is undesirable, it is almost certainly because it doesn’t do enough life siphon damage.

So to succeed in one, they will have to succeed in the other. While it’s entirely possible that they will fail at both, I don’t think you have to worry about it on the ground of BM being made too support-y.

Foefaller.1082:

IMO, the only way life siphon support would worthwhile to bring to group content is if the life siphon damage is good. The two facets are mutually inclusive: if life siphon is still terrible, noone will want Vampiric Aura for their group; if Vampiric Aura is undesirable, it is almost certainly because it doesn’t do enough life siphon damage.

So to succeed in one, they will have to succeed in the other. While it’s entirely possible that they will fail at both, I don’t think you have to worry about it on the ground of BM being made too support-y.

It will not do great damage imo especially not with mobs with that high of HP just like conditions, the damage output of the 3 dps stats is too great the one from reflect as well the healing might be but definitely not the damage. Unless of course mobs in HoT have high toughness low HP unlike current ones..

Blood Magic won’t be all support, it will just finally have useful support. Also the ability to heal through DS is a really big change, while our base DS is quite bad at procing siphons, RS will be amazing at it.