Talk:Vampire Leech/@comment-69.181.169.184-20190720061956

You have 3 build slots, use them.

T7% duration EV build for pure fire and forget EV. While this build gives you quick energy regen for the entire team and you dont need to worry about killing the target due to short duration, it makes your blessing and link skills practically useless due to no duration.

Like others have mentioned, you have 3 build slots. If  you are doing high level content, you should be using a non eidolon bless build which means good range, just enough strength, and max duration for maximum damage reduction/link coverage. Of course with high level content you should also be shooting stuff to proc EV instead of a short duration (why be lazy when doing serious stuff)?

Alternatively for high level content, forget vampire leech and use the Ack + Brunt weapon. This sword and shield combo has two mods that will effectively taunt all enemies within 15m of yourself, and redirect 50% of all damage from allies to you within 12m. Yes the ranges are not great, but its good enough for many things such as killing bosses (they will always target you) and defending objectives (where your team doesn't move away from it).

So use this mod if  you're not doing the taunt build (or your teammates are moving around a lot), or use the taunt build and instead build high vitality/shields + vigor etc (you can't die as long as you have link + blessing up) with the added bonus of also absorbing 50% of the damage from your teammates after you bless reduces the damage. That's a lot of damage reduction for the team on top of your 72-75% blessing.