Guild Wars 2

Got bored last night and tried some various life leeching builds in WvW using D/D, S/D, and P/D with 2/6/6 traits and zerker gear. The idea was to retain a high crit% with decently high damage to trigger leeching as much as possible. The builds all revolved around a mixture of the following:

-Sigil of Blood (453 hp/2 second cd)
-Omnomberry Pie (325hp/1 second cd)
-Signet of Malice (133 hp on attack)
-Invigorating Precision( 5% of damage converted to hp)

So assuming you’re constantly hitting a target, you’re looking at 800-1100 hp every 1-2 seconds. It’s even better if you are fighting someone around npc’s/mobs because the leeching triggers even more(S/D cleaving).

It was for kittens and giggles but it turns out that using the above combination let me face tank quite a few people with ease. I don’t remember running into any skilled players so I wouldn’t run wild with it, but I’m just posting in light of how narrow our builds have become. Has anyone run something similar and successful?

I do believe AikijinX has a life leech heavy build tht used PD, the thread is here somewhere….

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/thief/Aikijinx-s-Life-Absorb-Build-Pictures

Here it is. I’ve tried it, and it’s pretty cool.

Thanks for the link! And to think I was being innovative…

Seems like there can be a lot more room for a leeching build after the patch. Specifically ones that don’t make people use a venom in place of a utility skill, and to fully take advantage of sigil of blood now.

Invigorating precision disappointed me, I had thought it would have made my build better with the 3rd version to it, but it’s not worth losing executioner GM.

Does Superior Sigil of Blood have a two second CD? I’m reading 5 seconds on the in game tool tip. But the wiki says 2 seconds as well.

It has 5sec CD. You shouldn’t expected wiki to update everything in just a couple weeks.

Afik, the tool tip in the game for Rune and Sigil should be accurate after the updated, at least for the most part.