Guild Wars 2

Okay Questions:
1) Does life steal from Necro traits scale with Healing Power?
2) Does life steal from weapon skill and signets scale with Healing Power?
3) If life steal scales with Healing Power, will it steal more life or will it just heal for more?

I’ve been told many different things by many different people and I need to know if Healing Power will heal for more or steal more hp from enemy. If so then I am going to make a bomb necro life steal build.

1. Yes, but horribly. Vampiric master scales at ~1.7% healing power. The rest, .4%.
2. Yes. Rather well now on Life Siphon (dagger 2) at 8.4% per tick, or 75.6% overall. Signet of Vampirism scales at 20% per stack, and Signet of the Locust scales at 24% Recall that Bloodthirst increases all of these by 20%, which makes Life Siphon scale at 90.72%. Life Siphon’s damage, unlike all other siphons, is unaffected by Bloodthirst, however.
3. Just the healing portion scales with healing power. Damage scales with Power instead.

Also, my advice is don’t bother. The traits are universally terrible and you get more lifesteal from eating an omnomberry ghost than from taking every life siphoning trait we have combined.

But if you want to do a life steal build for power necro there are some pretty nice options. I’ve been looking into that recently and I’ve actually managed to build a power necro with really strong sustain through life steal I can post it if you want.

Ario.8964:

But if you want to do a life steal build for power necro there are some pretty nice options. I’ve been looking into that recently and I’ve actually managed to build a power necro with really strong sustain through life steal I can post it if you want.

yeah go ahead i will take a look at it

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fREQNBmQDbkjmabLuxyG2bTgLUTmENBkvZAQdbEHPLA-T1BGABEp8LhnAAAXEgy0NEz+DBq+zUKBDAgAszbmObzghO0hO0hO025Q35Q35QLEg5tA-w

May not be the most optimal at first but when you get used to it it can be pretty darn strong. I’ve been able to fight 1v3 with it at times.

Ario.8964:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fREQNBmQDbkjmabLuxyG2bTgLUTmENBkvZAQdbEHPLA-T1BGABEp8LhnAAAXEgy0NEz+DBq+zUKBDAgAszbmObzghO0hO0hO025Q35Q35QLEg5tA-w

May not be the most optimal at first but when you get used to it it can be pretty darn strong. I’ve been able to fight 1v3 with it at times.

That’s a quasi power build. Altho it would be nice for power necro users its not what I really want.

So after making a life steal build I am of the belief that life steal needs buffed on necro. It takes forever to kill anything even with max healing power and everything. I’ve ran almost every possible combination with life steal the focus and its just not worth it. In order to have enuf life steal to be a true life steal build you lose out on a lot of damage and well it’s not efficient.

It still totally feels that the ONLY use for siphon. Is the extra damage you get from it’s scaling with power.
The damage, avoids all mitigation, like a condition. But is direct/instant.
Our attacks are mostly too slow to get much benefit, (tho doesn’t hurt with dagger), but in a minion swarm, getting a buff per pet hit, is nice. (Sad the minions just soo bad it’s not really viable out of pvp, and even still it’s a bit unsavory in there personally)