ArenaNet:Skill feedback/Necromancer/Vampiric Bite and Vampiric Touch

Anon's Issue -- 90.58.66.175 22:53, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
Discussion
 * Issue
 * Touch rangers are able to use it way more effectively than necros because of mana limitations (Expertise) and need to be touch range, wich a ranger is more able to (defensive stances, superior armor level). The skills are already very bad so being that much worse for the profession they belong to sounds somehow wrong.


 * Suggestion
 * Make them spells. Touch rangers wouldn't be much nerf since Expertise works with touch skills whatever their type, but necros would be able to use it with spell-exclusive energy management, like or  for example.
 * They would still be mediocre and I recognize they were made for beginners, no problem with that, but necros should be able to use necro skills effctively.

Useless for necros

 * Issue
 * Better for rangers.


 * Suggestion
 * Gain 1 energy for every 2 ranks of Soul Reaping.

Shard's Issue -- 21:21, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

 * Issue
 * They're the only nonspell touch skills in the game, solely for the purpose of letting touch rangers, a skill-less gimmick, exist.


 * Solution
 * Stop intentionally keeping gimmicks in a game that's supposed to be about player skill. Make them touch spells.

Impaled's Issue -- 17:38, 14 February 2009 (UTC)

 * Issue
 * Expensive melee-range skills on a caster?


 * Suggestion
 * Un-duplicate them and make them do something different. For example...
 * Half Range Spell. If target foe is bleeding, steals health. Otherwise, deals  damage and inflicts bleeding ( seconds).