Guild Wars 2

Hey guys,
This is a poll to get your first impression of your new heal skill. This is not talking about any of the other balance changes, but just what you think of the heal skill in terms of how viable it is. In other words how “good” it is.
The vote will be on a scale from 1 to 5. 1 being the skill is horrific and bad, 5 being the skill is amazing.
Thank you so much for you time and please remember that this is only first impressions. It may take awhile for a build to be formed with it that really shines.

Signet of Vamprisim: http://strawpoll.me/845891

well so far 100% of the voting has gone for number 1. I dont see many picking anything higher than 2-3.

I voted 1 simply because the skill appears so terrible I refuse to waste the skill points on it until someone proves otherwise.

I would use bloodthirst to boost it a bit, but with Vampiric Master’s healing skill bugged, whats the point compared to Transfusion.

I’m in the same boat… Just couldn’t bring myself to care enough to unlock it.

There’s no -1…

It’s been pretty OK for me (not groundbreaking, but not the utter disaster people love to claim it is) but I run a siphon build anyway.

It is without a doubt overpriced, however. This needs to cost only 3sp.

OtakuDFifty.2965:

It’s been pretty OK for me (not groundbreaking, but not the utter disaster people love to claim it is) but I run a siphon build anyway.

It is without a doubt overpriced, however. This needs to cost only 3sp.

I also run a siphon build, and I tested this signet for a few hours before work today. I have to say that it really doesn’t even feel like a heal skill. The active is so bad on it. Every time I pop the active when I am under 50% health, I usually don’t really even gain much. And then of course I am left with no passive for 35 seconds.

Even as a siphon Necro, I would much rather have Consume Conditions in PvP, or Blood Fiend/Well of Blood in PvE.

I give it a 1.

I think they should actually give us skill points back for taking this skill.

Mad Queen Malafide.7512:

I think they should actually give us skill points back for taking this skill.

Ha! Jokes on them, I didn’t waste my skill points.

Bhawb, I take it your possible “line of communication” to the devs didn’t pan out. I seriously want some of what they’re smoking up in Bellevue, if you ever make contact.

Draehl.2681:

Bhawb, I take it your possible “line of communication” to the devs didn’t pan out. I seriously want some of what they’re smoking up in Bellevue, if you ever make contact.

Nope, sadly they stealthed nerfed it when I wasn’t paying attention.

Bhawb.7408:

Ha! Jokes on them, I didn’t waste my skill points.

Right there with you. I have so many skillpoints that it really doesn’t matter what I waste them on. But still, it does matter to me. I want them to start putting some effort into our class.

Anet you said you wanted us to be attrition!

This was the perfect chance to help/encourage us to do that!

Instead we got a new skill that Necromancers universally pan.

At least in a month’s time you’ll be able to see statistics on people unlocking it, trying it out and then dumping it and have quantifiable proof it’s bad.

nope.. we are not the attrition class…. we are the class in attrition istead

No I think we are an attrition class. Our class has the highest rate of attrition due to players moving to other classes.

Or maybe they are simply waging a war of attrition on our skills and traits.

I could have done 25 superior siege weapon :’(

How to find out if a stripper, i mean light armor user, is a necro on Tyria, the sure know how to suck, not much but they know.

*yay for triple? quad? innuendo.

if they ever make it heal minions and remove the health steal cap ill definitively give it a 4 or a 5 for now ill stick to a 2… it has a lot of potential but its highly unexploited due to its limitation

I purchased it and used it for the entire day.

I regretted every single moment of using it.

It’s a terribly designed skill with almost no real world use value.

Quite frankly I petitioned for a refund of skill points.

I gave it a 2 because… at least it heals, right? x.X
But that was just the benefit of the doubt. For any specific situation, pvp, wvw, pve there’s always a better option already that requires less investment to make work. It even makes Blood fiend look ‘good’, which… I’m really not sure how I feel about that.

The only viable use for Signet of Vampirism is in parties, to give a very small, very brief boost to party members’ dps and a little bit of health. Compared to other profession party heals, it scrapes the bottom of the barrel.

It is absolutely useless to the solo necro — don’t waste your time on it.

Worst. Heal. Ever.

And such party DPS boost can be outdone by a single Life Blast, so even that boost isn’t relevant.

I voted 1, mainly because I went to unlock it and had trouble finding it.

I tried it in 3 different situations and then gave up.

1. Solo. was attacking 3 toxic NPC’s. They were all hitting me but I only got the passive heal once per volley making it kind of crappy. The passive also didn’t seem to damage the enemies. When I was almost dead I popped the active… I only managed to get 1 hit in and almost no healing due to interrupts, dodging and the ICD. They then proceeded to kill me.

2. Solo against condition. Similar situation as above but one of the NPC’s was using conditions against me. I managed to come out alive at the end but I had no target to mark so when I activated the signet it kept the conditions on me, had no one to gain health from and then slowly watched my health tick down until I died since I had no way to remove conditions and no way to gain health without an enemy.

3. Against a boss in a group. This went better, I was able to use the active to full effect, but that effect is minimal, and the healing is weaker then CC’s. Ended the fight with low health due to insufficient healing. Also healing once a second on the passive for 300 when the enemy is hitting you for 11k is kind of sad…

I will never touch the skill again unless it is changed.

I don’t know why people still think the passive does damage. It literally does 0 damage, with a 0% scaling from Power.

I’d really like to know the 6 who chose 4 and 5. :P

My well heals for more. I tested it and nearly died because the heal was so bad to a vet no less. If it hadn’t being somewhat skillful player I would have died. The passive is laughable and in group play it appears to have absolutely no benefit. I’d really like the 25 skill points i wasted on the skill back.

Drarnor Kunoram.5180:

I don’t know why people still think the passive does damage. It literally does 0 damage, with a 0% scaling from Power.

Its the name.