Guild Wars 2

Hi fellow Necros,

I’ve been messing a lot with my builds, trying to find the perfect spot for my style.

Now we all know there’s a lot of bugs, but I’ve found something interesting and I wonder if it was already discussed/found. It could also be used to add some thoughts to how lifeforce interacts with health/healing:

After the well that heal enemies, I’ve found a way to “heal” my lifeforce in Deathshroud. Not by a large amount, but the peoples around you the better it is!

Traits are 30/20/0/20/0. With Vampiric Precision and Bloodthirst in Blood.

Grab a few mobs, pop Warhorn #5, pop DS, and just autoattack with Lifeblast. Between our 4% lifeforce lost, you should see your lifeforce rising slightly (like a millimeter per second, but still!) You also gain a lot more from DS #4 if you crit a lot.

So our healing seems to works in DS, maybe it’s just because the numbers are trivial that we dont see it, because we lose so much each second?

Sorry for my english, hope you can reproduce this setup and that it brings more discussion to the table for our beloved DS!

Nice find. It would probably be easier to notice if you took Vital Persistence.

You can save yourself the warhorn #5 effort as long as the “on health below X” DS bug persists. Instead you can pick up Decaying Swarm from the Soul Reaping line and get Locust Swarm the moment you take damage while in DS (or perhaps simply on entering DS).

Yeah when I’ll grab more crit gear, I’ll try it without Curses and with Vital Persistence to see if we could counteract the loss of lifeforce more.

Warhorn #5 was just a AoE to make a quick succession of life gain, for peoples to see if it works. Wells and others sources of quick AoE damage combined would probably be able to gain a lot more.

I’ve read all the discussions about DS and lifeforce related to vit, Soul Reaping etc, and maybe that info will be able to shed more light on this mystery.