Guild Wars 2

I was just playing around with some build ideas and came up with a power lifestealing build.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vlAQNAscinvNeNS6JvJRVlHlsrykSYW5SJYssrklNFhd851qxy9rNQiHA-TJBFABiXGggTAgO7PAwDAAA

Skills/traits that siphon life:

Enchanted Daggers
Focused Siphoning
Assassin’s Annihilation
Steadfast Rejuvenation
Invigorating Flow
Sigil of Blood
Vamp Runes

Lots of healing and survivability but still with decent damage. What do you guys think?

Sword works exceptionally well with Vampiric’s Presence from Necromancer.

I think you should really replace one of those trait lines with Corruption. You have literally no counter to conditions other than Pain Absorption and extra resistence would go a long way. If you replaced hammer with mace/axe and the retribution traits with corruption, you’d ultimately gain more survivability and damage.

Alternatively, you could replace Mallyx with Jalis. Then you keep all your trait lines and hammer, gain a little bit of condition removal. Replace sigil of air with sigil of generosity. Jalis might not fit your theme of vampirism but Vengeful hammers sort of ‘Siphons’ health now and you’ve also got Rite of the Great Dwarf for survivability.

You could also add in Sigil of Leeching on your second weapon.

Demented Yak.6105:

I think you should really replace one of those trait lines with Corruption. You have literally no counter to conditions other than Pain Absorption and extra resistence would go a long way. If you replaced hammer with mace/axe and the retribution traits with corruption, you’d ultimately gain more survivability and damage.

Alternatively, you could replace Mallyx with Jalis. Then you keep all your trait lines and hammer, gain a little bit of condition removal. Replace sigil of air with sigil of generosity. Jalis might not fit your theme of vampirism but Vengeful hammers sort of ‘Siphons’ health now and you’ve also got Rite of the Great Dwarf for survivability.

You could also add in Sigil of Leeching on your second weapon.

Agreed. Either go with Corruption or lose Mallyx entirely. If this were PvP, Rune of Scavenging would also be viable. Just curious, has anyone tried to swap weapons while Field of the Mists is up? Because, wow, with the attack speed of mace and sword, that would be fanastic for the vampire theme.

Mallyx without Corruption… uhm… That line is the only one that is basically mandatory for its legend because of Resistance.

However I ‘m not sure if it’s thematically correct or not, but Glint’s Infuse Light absorbs enemy damage.

Ark Bladesteele.2943:

Demented Yak.6105:

I think you should really replace one of those trait lines with Corruption. You have literally no counter to conditions other than Pain Absorption and extra resistence would go a long way. If you replaced hammer with mace/axe and the retribution traits with corruption, you’d ultimately gain more survivability and damage.

Alternatively, you could replace Mallyx with Jalis. Then you keep all your trait lines and hammer, gain a little bit of condition removal. Replace sigil of air with sigil of generosity. Jalis might not fit your theme of vampirism but Vengeful hammers sort of ‘Siphons’ health now and you’ve also got Rite of the Great Dwarf for survivability.

You could also add in Sigil of Leeching on your second weapon.

Agreed. Either go with Corruption or lose Mallyx entirely. If this were PvP, Rune of Scavenging would also be viable. Just curious, has anyone tried to swap weapons while Field of the Mists is up? Because, wow, with the attack speed of mace and sword, that would be fanastic for the vampire theme.

Not entirely sure what you are suggesting here. Field of The Mists is a “Dark” Field and requires a “Projectile” Finisher in order to steal life. Neither Mace or Sword provide such a Finisher as they are not ranged weapons but melee.

On a side note if you want an amazing combo use Field of The Mists then toggle on IO with Hammer AA to steal a ton of life very fast.

I posted something pretty similar a while back, but mine was more for PvE/WvW than PvP. Just taking as much life steal as possible looked like fun.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/revenant/Build-Lifesteal-Revenant
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vlAQJA8snnNuNSyJ7JRNlVlsoyrS4UZWJIscskFNFhtc64qzyFsNwiIA-TFCGABJcQAWbHAbWeIQ1fmSJIRK/A4BAUmOBCBUeBA-w

Griffith.7238:

Ark Bladesteele.2943:

Demented Yak.6105:

I think you should really replace one of those trait lines with Corruption. You have literally no counter to conditions other than Pain Absorption and extra resistence would go a long way. If you replaced hammer with mace/axe and the retribution traits with corruption, you’d ultimately gain more survivability and damage.

Alternatively, you could replace Mallyx with Jalis. Then you keep all your trait lines and hammer, gain a little bit of condition removal. Replace sigil of air with sigil of generosity. Jalis might not fit your theme of vampirism but Vengeful hammers sort of ‘Siphons’ health now and you’ve also got Rite of the Great Dwarf for survivability.

You could also add in Sigil of Leeching on your second weapon.

Agreed. Either go with Corruption or lose Mallyx entirely. If this were PvP, Rune of Scavenging would also be viable. Just curious, has anyone tried to swap weapons while Field of the Mists is up? Because, wow, with the attack speed of mace and sword, that would be fanastic for the vampire theme.

Not entirely sure what you are suggesting here. Field of The Mists is a “Dark” Field and requires a “Projectile” Finisher in order to steal life. Neither Mace or Sword provide such a Finisher as they are not ranged weapons but melee.

On a side note if you want an amazing combo use Field of The Mists then toggle on IO with Hammer AA to steal a ton of life very fast.

Yeah, it had occurred to me that it’s a projectile finisher after I posted it but decided not to edit it.