Guild Wars 2

Even though the Necromancer’s Signet of Vampirism is a completely useless skill anyway (see https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/balance/PVX-Signet-of-Vampirism-completely-useless/first#post3625140), I thought it was important to report that the latest patch broke the skill against most of the key bosses in the game.

The patch notes say “Signet of Vampirism: The active life-siphoning effect of this signet can no longer be applied to inanimate objects, such as WvW gates.”

However, this has broken the active part of the skill against pretty much all world bosses – or specifically ALL the dragons, the Jungle Wurms, Golem MkII, Shadow Behemoth etc.

You can’t exactly say that all these guys are “inanimate objects”.

I’m sure this wasn’t intended.

I guess noone really cares because noone uses this skill.

However, if it’s ever buffed to be useful, the fact it doesn’t work on most bosses is going to be problematic!

Isn’t that basically the same problem for all Marks since the launch of the game? I guess staff on necro has been useless since launch?

Khisanth.2948:

I guess staff on necro has been useless since launch?

For bosses? Yes absolutely.

However the staff is an AoE support weapon so noone really cares that much.

Signet of Vampirism on the other hand is a heal skill. If you brought it into the fight and can’t get out of combat to switch to another one when you realise you can’t heal at all… well gg.

My point is that it doesn’t seem to be a useful motivator for them to fix problem.

Many useful on crit and on kill sigils and traits are also rendered useless by bosses and world bosses.

Fact: No one use SoV.

Trahearne: Moving on.