Guild Wars 2

It was mentioned in the Reaper livestream that necros will be getting a new aura effect in the blood tree called vampiric aura. According to Dulfy’s notes:

a new aura that can be placed on allies that also cause them to siphon health and also increase your own life siphon

I just like to suggest for QoL purposes that this aura replace the current active on Signet of Vampirism. Seems like a good idea.

Basically, the signet is a fantastic idea, but its current implementation makes it unwanted in pvp, pve and all other modes. This could be a great dps signet / utility signet if it were just changed.

For the record: I use the signet in PvE dungeon running, because I barely need a heal as it is in most dungeon runs and technically it’s additional damage for the group.

But as for what I actually came in here to say: if Vampiric Aura becomes a full thing, I’m really, really hoping it can be added to the combo interactions with Dark combo fields. Going from 3s duration blinds to an aura that adds damage & healing would be a potent upgrade, and make Dark Fields & wells be way less feel-bad in terms of covering up other fields.

I wouldn’t mind seeing more dark fields and/or converting existing fields from other skills to dark fields. I think well of blood could have potential as a dark field allowing for a blast finisher to spread vampiric auras to other allies. While it may not be as good as consume conditions, at least there’d be something to play around with that doesn’t have a light field.

I’m have a feeling that there’s going to be an internal cooldown of 1 second for the aura’s vampiric effect.

I rewatched to video to figure out how that aura might work. There is a unique icon popping up when hes fighting. Maybe that’s it? If it is, it pops up when siphoning and probably isn’t directly applied to allies. The Necro would be the person to siphon for them. Makes sense, because anything else would also increase the damage output of a group.

Regardless of how it turns out to work, I really wished ANet would rework all combos to provide some form of unique Aura like they did with the Light Aura.

Despite the fact I’ve never liked how vampiric effects were implimented in gw2 vs gw1, I still have a vampiric build for my necro; hm, four actually (wells, minions, crit-based, and a vampiric/death shroud hybrid). Regardless, I’ve been hoping they would improve on vampiric builds. I’m hoping this will do it!

My body is literally ready for a viable sustainy bunker blood necro.

I just want Parasitic Contagion as a minor in Curses or major in Blood Magic which heals in Shroud.

Then I will be happy.
I’m a selfish PvP Necro.

Rym.1469:

I just want Parasitic Contagion as a minor in Curses or major in Blood Magic which heals in Shroud.

Then I will be happy.
I’m a selfish PvP Necro.

^ This, but take out “minor in curses or.” Add in another selfish.