Guild Wars 2

Maybe they should just make one powerful life siphon trait and move it to grand master. No other sources should give life siphon, this way it stays within acceptable parameters and it can legimatively be useful self heal without having to fear necros breaking balance. (the sigils are still allowed perhaps)

I think adding the shortest ICD possible will be a better solution.

No. First off why break minion balance (no good MM will ever take more than just Vampiric/Vampiric master, in balanced conditions) for your sustain, second off the issue isn’t that there are lots of siphon traits, its that every siphon trait can be proc’d over 100 times per second in theory, so they balance the extreme situation at the cost of making it suck almost always. Just put a 0.5-1s ICD on vampiric/vampiric precision and scale them appropriately.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/necromancer/Necromancer-Siphoning-DS-and-Blood-line/first#post3795899

Necro Life Siphon is to get higher damage that ignores armor/mitigation like a condition, but with power/minions.
This is why it’s got such a good co-efficient with power, but 0.001% with healing power & had it’s base heals nerfed about 74% since release.

@ Bweaty
Where or when they said such thing? I’m really curious because that sounds promising.