Blood Bank

Gaining health grants a proportionate amount of barrier. Conversion amount increases while at full health. — In-game description

Blood Bank

Specialization

Blood Magic (trait list)

Tier

Grandmaster

Type

Major

Training cost

8 Hero points

Game link

API

API

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Blood Bank

Gaining health grants a proportionate amount of barrier. Conversion amount increases while at full health.

 Full Health Healing Conversion Rate: 100%

 Healing Conversion Rate: 10%

 Healing Conversion Rate: 5%

 Combat Only

— In-game description

Related skills

Weapon skills that are improved by this trait

•   Life Siphon — Dagger
•   Enervation Blade — Sword
•   Enervation Echo — Sword
•   Deathly Enervation — Sword
•   Path of Gluttony — Sword
•   Gorge — Sword
•   Hungering Maelstrom — Sword

Healing skills that are improved by this trait

•   Consume Conditions — Corruption
•   Summon Blood Fiend — Minion
•   Taste of Death
•   Signet of Vampirism — Signet
•   Well of Blood — Well
•   "Your Soul Is Mine!" — Shout
•   Sand Flare — Punishment
•   Elixir of Promise — Elixir

Downed skills that are improved by this trait

•   Life Leech

Drowning skills that are improved by this trait

•   Life Leech

Trait skills that are improved by this trait

•   Lesser Well of Blood — Ritual of Life

Related traits

Traits that are improved by this trait

Spite

• Spiteful Renewal — Consume conditions to gain health when you use a healing skill.

Curses

• Parasitic Contagion — A percentage of your condition damage heals you. Healing will not occur while life force replaces health.

Death Magic

• Unholy Sanctuary — Regenerate health while in shroud. If your life force is above the threshold, your shroud will activate if you would take a lethal blow.

Blood Magic

• Life from Death — Heal allies in an area when you exit shroud. Increase healing to other allies.
• Transfusion — Shroud skill 4 heals and partially revives nearby allies. Up to five nearby downed allies are teleported to you upon using shroud skill 4.

Reaper

• Soul Eater — Striking foes within the range threshold deals increased strike damage and heals you for a portion of the damage dealt. Healing will not occur while life force replaces health.
• Blighter's Boon — Gain life force when you apply a boon to yourself or remove a boon from an enemy. If you are in reaper's shroud, gain health instead.

Harbinger

• Alchemic Vigor — Gain increased vitality. Heal each second for each stack of blight you have.

Notes

• Even if heal received is blocked by Shroud, the resulting barrier is still properly calculated and applied.
• This trait is affected by  Regeneration.

Traits that synergize with this trait

•  Alchemic Vigor — Only while in combat.
•  Augury of Death — Activates when using a Shout ability. Minions from   "Rise!" will not give extra healing or barrier on hit.
•  Blighter's Boon
•  Vampiric Presence
•  Vampiric — Minion hits will give you barrier.

Traits that do not synergize with this trait

•  Parasitic Contagion - Does not trigger in or out of Death Shroud, Reaper's Shroud, or Harbinger Shroud.
•  Soul Eater - Does not trigger in or out of Reaper's Shroud.
•  Unholy Sanctuary - Does not trigger in Death Shroud, Reaper Shroud, or Harbinger Shroud.
•  Desert Empowerment - This effect only occurs with barrier from scourge skills and traits.

Version history

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch	Changes
June 28, 2022	Now also converts incoming healing from healing-over-time effects such as regeneration into barrier. This effect now only occurs while in combat. To account for healing-over-time effects now activating this trait, the percentage of incoming healing converted to barrier has been reduced from 15% to 10% in PvE and from 10% to 5% in PvP and WvW.
May 11, 2021	In addition to its previous effects, this trait now grants barrier for health gained while below full health at a 15% rate.
July 07, 2020	This new trait replaces Vampiric Rituals in the Blood Magic grandmaster slot. It causes healing over your maximum health amount to be converted into barrier. Regeneration effects do not trigger this trait.