Guild Wars 2

1) Does Vigorous Recovery (vigor on heal) stack with signet of malice?

2) If you use healing runes does it increase the health recovered on hit with signet of malice? Or if you do more damage does it take a certain % of you’re damage and convert it into leeched life? Does anybody know or have first hand experience with how this works?

3) What rune combination/sigil combination or P/P do you think would be the best balance to have a good life leech/ dmg/crit build?

1) question doesnt really make sense, vigorous recovery procs vigor when you use a healing skill, SoM doesnt have anything to do with vigor.

2)healing power will scale up how much you heal with SoM. SoM is NOT life leech, its simply a small healing proc every time you strike a foe (or in some cases like caltrops, apply bleeding)

3)use SoM, Assassins reward, and life leech food, perhaps sigil of blood (i think thats the one) if you need more, but prolly dont need the sigil. Most thieves would advise against p/p in general though, its a terribly confused set with no clear purpose, however, if you enjoy it, there are a few guides in the forum i recall seeing

Shemsu.8721:

1) question doesnt really make sense, vigorous recovery procs vigor when you use a healing skill, SoM doesnt have anything to do with vigor.

2)healing power will scale up how much you heal with SoM. SoM is NOT life leech, its simply a small healing proc every time you strike a foe (or in some cases like caltrops, apply bleeding)

3)use SoM, Assassins reward, and life leech food, perhaps sigil of blood (i think thats the one) if you need more, but prolly dont need the sigil. Most thieves would advise against p/p in general though, its a terribly confused set with no clear purpose, however, if you enjoy it, there are a few guides in the forum i recall seeing

There is a thief trait called “Vigorous Recovery,” which is gaining vigor when using a healing skill. So if SoM is gaining health on hit, am I gaining vigor on every hit?

“No clear Purpose,’ is nice, gives you the freedom to build in any direction, thats how I see it.

GanjaFarmer.8769:

Shemsu.8721:

1) question doesnt really make sense, vigorous recovery procs vigor when you use a healing skill, SoM doesnt have anything to do with vigor.

2)healing power will scale up how much you heal with SoM. SoM is NOT life leech, its simply a small healing proc every time you strike a foe (or in some cases like caltrops, apply bleeding)

3)use SoM, Assassins reward, and life leech food, perhaps sigil of blood (i think thats the one) if you need more, but prolly dont need the sigil. Most thieves would advise against p/p in general though, its a terribly confused set with no clear purpose, however, if you enjoy it, there are a few guides in the forum i recall seeing

There is a thief trait called “Vigorous Recovery,” which is gaining vigor when using a healing skill. So if SoM is gaining health on hit, am I gaining vigor on every hit?

“No clear Purpose,’ is nice, gives you the freedom to build in any direction, thats how I see it.

it only gives you vigor if you use signet of malice which cancels the heal per hit effect until its recharged making it useless because you shouldnt ever have to use SoM, also no clear purpose means it doesnt perform well under any build and is sub-par to every other weapon set we have

GanjaFarmer.8769:

Shemsu.8721:

1) question doesnt really make sense, vigorous recovery procs vigor when you use a healing skill, SoM doesnt have anything to do with vigor.

2)healing power will scale up how much you heal with SoM. SoM is NOT life leech, its simply a small healing proc every time you strike a foe (or in some cases like caltrops, apply bleeding)

3)use SoM, Assassins reward, and life leech food, perhaps sigil of blood (i think thats the one) if you need more, but prolly dont need the sigil. Most thieves would advise against p/p in general though, its a terribly confused set with no clear purpose, however, if you enjoy it, there are a few guides in the forum i recall seeing

There is a thief trait called “Vigorous Recovery,” which is gaining vigor when using a healing skill. So if SoM is gaining health on hit, am I gaining vigor on every hit?

“No clear Purpose,’ is nice, gives you the freedom to build in any direction, thats how I see it.

Yes i’m aware of the trait, which is why i explained what it does, it procs vigor when you USE a healing skills, SoM or any signets passive effect is not using a healing skill, hence why its a passive effect. So no, you will not get a 10second vigor every single attack with SoM

As for no clear purpose giving you the freedom to build in any direction, not so much, what it means is that any direction you build in, your still going to be sub-par and ineffective.

The ‘no clear purpose’ also means there is very little in the weapon skills to build around. Pistol/Pistol gives the smoke field from black powder but no way to convert that to stealth for stealth benefits. Stealing traits won’t help if you stay at range for pistol/pistol. And so on.

Vigourous recovery seems most suited to withdraw, allowing continuous dodge and evade. It probably suits pistol/pistol too.