Signet of Vampirism

Signet Passive: Steal health from nearby foes while in combat. Signet Active: Heal yourself and mark a foe. Allied players will siphon life from the marked enemy. — In-game description

Signet of Vampirism

Profession

Necromancer (skill list)

Slot

Healing

Type

Signet

Training cost

2 Hero points

Game link

API

21762, 60625

Gallery
Overhead activation icon Animation.

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Signet of Vampirism

Signet Passive: Steal health from nearby foes while in combat.
Signet Active: Heal yourself and mark a foe. Allied players will siphon life from the marked enemy.

 Passive Life-Siphon Damage: 151 (0.022)^?

 Active Life Siphon Damage: 247 (0.084)^?

 Passive Life-Siphon Heal: 195 (0.024)^?

 Active Life Siphon Heal: 600 (0.24)^?

 Healing: 5,750 (0.5)^?

₂₅ Vampiric Mark (6s): Life is siphoned when struck by players.

 Passive Siphon Targets: 1

 Siphon Cooldown: 1 second

 Radius: 180

 Combat Only

 Range: 1,200

— In-game description

Mechanics

• The active effect heals the caster for 5750 + 0.5 * Healing Power, and inflicts 25 stacks of Vampiric Mark on the target, allowing allies to siphon life from the marked foe up to 25 times for the duration. Each attacker has a 1 second internal cooldown on this effect.
• Siphon damage scales with power and ignores armor/toughness.
• Siphon healing scales with healing power.
• Passive siphon target priority is strictly proximity based and affects the closest enemy; the target selection is irrelevant.

Notes

• Unlike most other signets, when this skill is cast on a foe the signet's icon also appears over their head rather than only over the caster's head. Additionally, this icon varies in size depending on the target's size, with some such as Ignaxious resulting in massive icons.

Related traits

Spite

• Spiteful Renewal — Consume conditions to gain health when you use a healing skill.
• Signets of Suffering — Signets steal health and remove boons from affected foes. Siphon healing is reduced for each target struck beyond the first.

Blood Magic

• Blood Bank — Gaining health grants a proportionate amount of barrier. Conversion amount increases while at full health.

Soul Reaping

• Vital Persistence — Gain Vitality. Your incoming healing is increased.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
August 20, 2024	Janthir Wilds release: Reduced the casting time by 0.4 seconds.
November 28, 2023	Increased the base active healing from 4,950 to 5,750. Increased base active life-steal healing from 470 to 600.
June 27, 2023	Reduced cooldown from 30 seconds to 24 seconds.
July 07, 2020	The passive effect for this skill has been reworked. It now causes the necromancer to steal a small amount of health from a nearby foe every second while in combat.
March 04, 2020	Reduced passive base heal when struck from 325 to 211 in PvP only.
May 08, 2018	The cooldown and base healing of this skill are no longer split between game modes and will now use the lower 30-second cooldown and the higher 25% base heal in all modes.
March 27, 2018	Reduced the cooldown from 35 seconds to 30 seconds in PvP and WvW. Increased the base heal by 25% in PvP and WvW.
October 18, 2016	When the Signets of Suffering trait is equipped, this skill will no longer corrupt boons on players who evade it.
September 29, 2015	Fixed a bug that prevented the actual healing values from matching those listed in the skill facts.
July 28, 2015	Fixed a bug that caused this skill to heal for more than its listed value.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: The effects of siphoning skills and traits have been increased by 20%. Healing from the active portion of this skill will now heal players while in shroud.
September 09, 2014	Increased the duration of the active effect from 5 seconds to 6 seconds.
April 15, 2014	Fixed a bug that caused downed players to be immune to the signet.
February 04, 2014	The active life-siphoning effect of this signet can no longer be applied to inanimate objects, such as WvW gates.
December 10, 2013	Signet of Vampirism has been added to the game.

Trivia

• The active effect is similar to Blood Bond from Guild Wars 1.