Guild Wars 2

Hiya,
I was thinking of making a tanky condition build that would use parasitic contagion. The idea is to keep dishing out damage until I’m low health, go DS/RS and then apply burning with dhuumfire. I thought this might work because all other vampiric/siphoning effects keep healing you (your real HP pool) while you’re in shroud. This trait, however, does not. Just found it odd to differentiate this one so I assumed it was a bug of some kind.

It does not work for either shrouds either. I tested both Deathshroud and Reaper Shroud.

Welcome to Necromancer!

This trait is either crap anywhere besides world bosses/mass AoE in PvE or totally overpowered in listed situations. There’s little middle ground.

Necromancers have been asking for this trait to at least work in Shroud since it was pre-viewed.

I’ve heard from WvW guys that for skirmishing it is more than decent. I doubt that its usage in shroud will make us somehow OP, however I’ve seen some stupid good hp regen (Play Mad Kings Labyrinth), I could as a mediocre soloer solo Lich thanks to epidemic and parasitic contagion