Guild Wars 2

So I’m a little torn and can’t make up my mind for this. Basically, I’m running a power/cond dmg hybrid build with enough points in blood magic for the reduced well cooldown.

My build is currently (I am only lvl 65)

20/20/0/15/0

My question is I am going to invest another 5 pts into blood magic for sure to get the reduced CD on wells, but I am torn between spending the other 10 pts into spite for power and the 20% more dmg if target is <50% health, OR, if I should put the other 10 into blood magic for the wells siphon health when they pulse.

I went on wiki and found the health siphoned to not be that great. (21 per pulse) but then I started thinking if I hit 5-7 targets with both wells it might not be all that bad. I know due to our bugs the 50% increase to life siphoning doesn’t effect this trait, so my question is

Is the life siphoning wells worth it? Can I get an opinion of a necro that has tried this out and their thoughts? I know I could just go to pvp and try it myself but I’m at work and figured someone would know that has given it a solid try.

Thanks!

Siphon health is a total trash, I’ve tried a build focusing on heavy health siphoning with heavy healing power, but the healing isn’t enough. You should better get the +20% damage on <50% health.

The Bloodthirst trait, which increases life siphoning amounts, DOES work on the well’s life siphon. If I wasn’t at work I’d go test it right now, but I’ve used wells + life siphoning extensively and I never noticed a problem. I’ll test it when I get home and confirm.

In my experience, it is definitely worth it for PvE and dungeons. All those little +21 ticks (closer to 40 with the trait) really add up once you’ve got 5-7 mobs stacked up. Your health bar will go up and down and back up again pretty quickly, which is a cool feeling.

In WvW I have found that it is not worth it to go for the 30 points in Blood Magic when doing a siphon build. Siphoning is not affected by +healing and it’s very difficult to get multiple players to sit in the wells. Wells are still worth using because of the reduced cooldown and 3s of protection on cast, just not worth those extra 10 points in Blood Magic imo. So in that case I would recommend putting those other 10 points into Spite.

I don’t play much sPvP so I don’t know how it would work there.

Thanks a lot for your informative responses guys! Hmm. I guess the best avenue would be to test it myself! I think getting the life siphoning wells for pve and then using the same build but 10 pts into spite instead for wvwvw and spvp would be best.

Bare in mind that using Well of Blood with Vampiric causes it to heal enemies.

Just tested, Bloodthirst does increase the siphon amount Vampiric Rituals.

Transfusion is VASTLY superior to using Bloodthirst and Vampiric Rituals combined.