Guild Wars 2

The version of this skill that veteran or higher rank have will target multiple players and once they have affected a player, they will keep stealing health from them even if they move way farther than twice longbow range, and will continuously suck health at an overwhelming speed until interrupted.

Once interrupted, they will use the skill again within seconds.

This skill should stop eventually, but it won’t. It just keeps going until all targets are defeated. So players get downed well before they can target all risen using this skill among a crowd of risen and interrupt them.

This skill behavior would be perfectly fine in a dungeon, but not in open world where it will probably appear among many others, preventing its interruption, or where it may be found by a solo player with no interruptions that was just exploring.

I was siphoned at Jofast yesterday, and when I WP’d to Shelter, the animation was there and it continued to reduce the health on my respawned self. I watched it happen to others, as well, and a few were mentioning it in my party. There were no enemies at Shelter, but Jofast had scaled up enough that it had 3 champions.

This is something I’ve never seen before, and I have spent a lot of time in Cursed Shore over the past two weeks.

I started a similar thread on this bug a little over a week ago.

In my most recent encounter, a VETERAN subjugator (not even an elite or champ) spawned at Wren defense in Malchor’s. No one bothered to interrupt – about six people including myself died to it and other veterans and mobs in the area.

At least three players waypointed to the nearest uncontested – Blighted Arch, a fair distance across the map and were still being siphoned. Being across the map, there was no way to avoid the damage, and there was another pile of corpses on the waypoint.