Guild Wars 2

With HoT and the way minions were buffed in terms of incoming AoE damage, I was looking around all traits in order to check how I could use them in the PvE environment. While doing so, it came to my attention that whenever a minionmancer chooses the Blood Magic traitline, their minions automatically are able to siphon health. This is something I found quite useful as it allows me to take Transfusion for example as a grandmaster trait while still having this “selfish” healing ability.

As someone who normally takes wells, I was therefore wondering why necromancers who use wells need to take the grandmaster trait Vampiric Rituals to allow their wells to siphon health. My suggestion therefore would be to add this siphoning effect of wells to the Vampiric minor trait, meaning wells will siphon health the moment a necro uses the Blood magic traitline.

I’m fully aware that people will than find Vampiric Rituals a bit underrated for a grandmaster trait, however I didn’t add any proposition for this as I first want to focus on my main suggestion and see what you think about making wells automatically siphon health just like minions.

Because Vampiric Master was a really boring trait that once existed at the master tier, and did nothing but allow minions to siphon HP, so they nerfed it while rolling it into the minor trait. This was because they really didn’t have anything else to do with it, and moving it to Death Magic would have made MMs too strong. Vampiric Rituals on the other hand had every direct well trait rolled into itself, and anyone wanting to specialize in wells really wants VR anyway. So sure, if you want your well-siphons to be nerfed by about 30-40% and be a minor it would be possible to roll them into the baseline, but I don’t think it’ll help at all considering you’d have taken the un-nerfed version if you were in BM anyway.

Bhawb.7408:

Because Vampiric Master was a really boring trait that once existed at the master tier, and did nothing but allow minions to siphon HP, so they nerfed it while rolling it into the minor trait. This was because they really didn’t have anything else to do with it, and moving it to Death Magic would have made MMs too strong. Vampiric Rituals on the other hand had every direct well trait rolled into itself, and anyone wanting to specialize in wells really wants VR anyway. So sure, if you want your well-siphons to be nerfed by about 30-40% and be a minor it would be possible to roll them into the baseline, but I don’t think it’ll help at all considering you’d have taken the un-nerfed version if you were in BM anyway.

Thanks already for the answer. I knew about the combination of all well traits, the information about the minions is new to me. I’ve only been playing the class for over a year, so must have missed that part back than.

However, I don’t really agree about your fear for a well-siphon nerf. This is off course a decision of the developer(s) which I’m fully aware off, but from my initial point of view there would be no real need for such a nerf as wells are still totally different than minions due to their static nature meaning that they would only siphon health when someone/something is standing in it. This is off course different with minions, which not only siphon health when attacking but which also last much longer than the usual 5 to 6 seconds that a well lasts.

And even at the end, it just all comes down on how such a change would occur. For example, a basic siphoning effect could be added to the Vampiric minor for wells, while the Vampiric Rituals trait could buff this to it’s current level. It is just one of many possible outcomes.