Guild Wars 2

The Revenant is getting a siphon health on Vulnerable foes and this got me thinking, what if they did this for the Necro’s Blood Magic spec.

Thematically, it fits perfectly with the whole vamperic theme where you suck blood for health.

With this added mechanic, they could even allow for more powerful siphons, say the more bleeds on the target the more health you siphon.

The spec update did make vamperic necro builds a little better, but I’m in the opinion it could use a little more love.

Blood Bond.
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While Blood Bond in its current form is pretty cool and it requires some thought to actually proc it on a power build, I think it could yet be cooler.

Blood Bond: Siphon ~10 health from struck foes for each stack of bleeding they are suffering from up to a maximum of 25.

That said, after seeing the Revenant’s Devastation line I’m fairly convinced that Necromancer’s being the way they are is intentional. All-in-all I’m fairly happy with Blood Magic these days, though, I just wish Banshee’s Wail was in another specialization so I could take it with Vampiric Presence.

Sounds like you want to merge blood bond and parasitic contagion :P

parasitic contagion does almost exactly that, except it also benefits from all your other damage conditions.