Well of Blood

Well. Conjure a well of blood to heal allies. — In-game description

Well of Blood

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Profession

Necromancer (skill list)

Slot

Healing

Type

Well

Training cost

2 Hero points

Game link

API

API

“

Well. Conjure a well of blood to heal allies.

  Initial Self Heal: 5,240 (1.0)^?

  Initial Self Heal: 4,454 (1.0)^?

  Health per Second: 280 (0.04)^?

  Health per Second: 280 (0.2)^?

  Number of Targets: 5

  Duration: 5 seconds

  Radius: 240

  Combo Field: Light

  Range: 900

— In-game description

Well of Blood.

Related traits

Spite

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

Blood Magic

• Ritual of Life — Cast Lesser Well of Blood when reviving an ally. Wells of Blood revive allies every pulse.
• 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.

Notes

• Heal per second happens on cast then each second later.
• Well of Blood's signature sound is of oil sizzling.

Bug:

The PvE Health per Second coefficient is most likely ten times lower than intended, only 0.04 instead of 0.4 (according to the game update notes from February 25, 2020).

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
February 02, 2021	Fixed a bug that caused the tooltip to display inaccurate healing values.
July 08, 2020	Increased cooldown from 25 seconds to 30 seconds in PvP and WvW.
July 07, 2020	Reduced recharge from 30 seconds to 25 seconds.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced initial base heal from 6026 to 5122. Reduced pulse heal coefficient from 0.4 to 0.2.
May 08, 2018	The healing aspects of this skill are no longer split between game modes and now use the higher 15% base heal and higher 75% pulse heal in all modes.
March 27, 2018	Increased the base heal by 15% in PvP and WvW. Increased the healing per pulse by 75% in PvP and WvW.
February 22, 2017	The recharge time of this skill has been reduced from 35 seconds to 30 seconds. Fixed a bug that caused wells to display their effects incorrectly while under the effects of quickness or slow.
April 19, 2016	The recharge time of this skill has been reduced from 40 seconds to 35 seconds.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Well skills now use ground targeting by default. When used underwater, wells cast at the player's location.
September 09, 2014	Decreased the active time of this well from 10 seconds to 5 seconds. Increased base healing per pulse by 50%. Updated the skill to have the correct values when Vampiric Rituals is equipped.
May 20, 2014	Fixed a bug that caused an unusual blue visual effect to occur on the necromancer after casting this spell.
August 06, 2013	Added a radius skill fact.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Well of Blood has been added to the game.

Trivia

• A Guild Wars skill bears the same name as this skill.