Vampiric

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Vampiric

Specialization
Necromancer icon small.png Blood Magic (trait list)
Tier
Master
Type
Minor
Training cost
4 Hero points
Game link
API
API
Vampiric

Siphon health whenever you hit a foe. Minions siphon health and transfer it to you.

Damage.png Life Siphon Damage: 38 (0.003)?
Damage.png Minion Life Steal: 50 (0.0213)?
Healing.png Life Siphon Healing: 31 (0.006)?
Healing.png Life Siphon Healing: 26 (0.006)?
Healing.png Minion Heal: 50 (0.02)?
Healing.png Minion Heal: 26 (0.02)?

— In-game description

Notes[edit]

  • For more information about Life Siphoning, refer to Life Steal.
  • A hit requires directly hitting the enemy with a skill. Conditions will not apply Vampiric, but the hits that apply them will.
  • Skills that hit multiple times such as Ghastly Claws will trigger Vampiric for each hit.
  • Vampiric will trigger on all hits even if those hits don't deal any damage. This includes skills which do not normally deal damage on a hit, as well as hits against enemies immune to damage.
  • Only Well of Suffering and Well of Corruption will trigger Vampiric if enemies are within range of the pulses.
  • Life siphon damage scales approximately as 38 + 0.003*power.
  • Minion Life Steal scales approximately as 50 + 0.0213*power.
  • Minion Heal rounds to the nearest whole health point when calculated.

Version history[edit]

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch Changes
February 28, 2022 End of Dragons release:
  • Reduced base life-stealing damage from 41 to 29 in PvP only. Reduced base life-stealing healing from 39 to 26 in PvP only. Minion life stealing has been adjusted to match the necromancer life stealing in PvP only.
July 26, 2016
  • Fixed a bug in which this trait allowed minions to steal life from creatures that would otherwise be immune.
June 23, 2015 Specialization update:
  • Updated this trait to reflect the introduction of the specialization mechanic.
  • Added: Minions siphon health and transfer it to you.
October 15, 2013
  • Vampiric, Vampiric Precision, Vampiric Rituals, and other life siphon skills: Increased the base siphoning by 20%.
June 25, 2013
  • This trait now scales up 6 additional points with power for its damage and healing for its healing per attack.
December 14, 2012
  • This trait no longer triggers when projectiles hit allies.
November 15, 2012
  • Vampiric Precision / Vampiric Rituals / Vampiric: These traits have been updated so that they don't heal enemies when in lower-level areas.
October 01, 2012
  • This Blood Magic trait's interaction with the Bloodthirst trait now increases health siphoning appropriately.
September 25, 2012
  • Fixed a bug with this trait so that it now functions with projectiles.
August 28, 2012 Game release:
  • Vampiric has been added to the game.