Well of Blood

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

Well of Blood

 

Profession

Necromancer (skill list)

Slot

Healing

Type

Well

Training cost

2 Hero points

Game link

API

10527, 10670

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Well of Blood

Well. Conjure a well of blood to heal allies.

 Initial Self Heal: 2,936 (1.0)^?

 Initial Self Heal: 4,454 (1.0)^?

 Health per Second: 664 (0.5)^?

 Health per Second: 496 (0.2)^?

₆ Regen (2s): 1,560 Heal

 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.

Reaper

• 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.

Notes

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

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
November 28, 2023	Increased the base pulse healing from 280 to 496 in PvP and WvW.
July 18, 2023	Reduced initial base self-heal from 5,140 to 2,936 in PvE only. Increased base pulse heal from 280 to 664 in PvE only. Increased the pulse heal attribute scaling from 0.4 to 0.5 in PvE only.
June 27, 2023	This skill now applies regeneration with every pulse. (undocumented) Fixed a bug where the health per second scaling was 10 times lower than intended in PvE only.
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.

Gallery

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  Skill animation.

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  Alternate view of skill animation (open to play).

Trivia

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