Guild Wars 2

Currently using a PVT powermancer with Runes of Vampirism (basically the same build to PvE, PvP and WvW, at least for now). Like the bonus to power (1, 3, 5), and love the mist form (6) that have a really cool concept and had saved my kitten a lot of times.

But I don’t like the health stealing (2, 4) powers. I believe they have a very low chance of happening, and I don’t believe they steal a lot of health, really (but I don’t know how much. Anybody does?). So, I believe I am underusing 1/3 of my rune powers.

Any suggestion to swap the Runes of Vampirism for some other power-based runes? Any other runes with something similar to mist form?

There is another rune that turns you into an ice block, but it is more of a delaying the inevitable.

The life steal components are actually very strong in pvp situations. It is essentially 1000 bonus damage and healng each time you heal, or when the on hit procs. It is completely non-stat dependent, so does not require any particular level of healing power etc.

The same proc is on scavenging runes, and most people really like it there.

Actually, the siphoning is a flat 975 non-scaling, armor ignoring siphon, which is not insignificant, its the same amount as the on swap sigil.

5% chance when hit translates to an average of once every 20 hits (no matter how much damage the hit did), and the on-heal paired with consume conditions adds almost 1k healing, plus 1k damage.

The real strength of this is when you properly pair it up with the on-swap sigils, which proc the same. So every 10 seconds you get the 1k siphon proc from sigils, every heal gives you a 1k proc, and 1/20 hits give you a proc. It translates to a lot of extra healing, and it is a huge backbone of my MM builds.