Vampiric Slash

Follow Up. Strike your foes and siphon health from them. Siphon additional health from vulnerable foes. Striking an enemy with a follow-up attack enables finisher attacks. — In-game description

Vampiric Slash

Profession

Thief (skill list)

Weapon

Spear

Activ. type

Chain

Sequence

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Game link

API

73063

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0.5½  1  

Vampiric Slash

Follow Up. Strike your foes and siphon health from them. Siphon additional health from vulnerable foes.
Striking an enemy with a follow-up attack enables finisher attacks.

 Bonus Lifesteal vs. Vulnerable: 50%

 Damage: 513 (1.4)^?

 Damage: 293 (0.8)^?

 Life Siphon Damage: 1,410 (0.2)^?

 Life Siphon Healing: 2,410 (0.2)^?

 Life Siphon Healing: 1,210 (0.2)^?

 Weakness (3s): -50% Endurance Regeneration, +50% Fumble (Unrestricted)

 Number of Targets: 1

 Range: 130

— In-game description

Related traits

Deadly Arts

• Exposed Weakness — Deal increased strike damage to your target for each unique condition on them.

Acrobatics

• Assassin's Reward — Heal yourself whenever you use a skill that uses initiative. Heal yourself for each point of initiative spent.

Trickery

• Lead Attacks — Increases all damage dealt per initiative spent. Steal gains reduced recharge time.

Daredevil

• Weakening Strikes — Your next attack after dodging causes weakness to foes struck. Weakened enemies deal less damage to you, and you deal increased strike damage to them.

Notes

• As this skill is a Follow Up, hitting a foes will progress both attack chains on the spear, granting access to Shattering Assault (this skill's Finisher skill) and Falling Spider (Entangling Asp's Finisher skill).

Trivia

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

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
June 27, 2024	Vampiric Slash was available during the Spear Beta Event.