Soul Reaping

Some questions on the specifics of this skill...

1) What radius is considered?

2) Do deaths that do not leave corpses count, eg minions, pets?

3) Do people find this at all useful in pvp?

1) I believe (and I'm sure will be corrected if wrong) your aggro circle
2) yes
3) depends on your build and the type of pvp. Competion/Teams arena, probably not, GvG/Tombs, probably moreso

1) about twice the radius of your "aggro bubble"
2) minions also trigger soul reaping (pets do leave corpses, and therefor, of course, also trigger soul reaping)
3) i don't think many builds spend attribute points on soul reaping (i for one never use it in a pvp build), usually, there's a better way to spend those precious points ...

guys who answerwed 1) and 2) are correct
3) In MF or Minion Factory has 11 or more in soul reaping, need that energy after minioning.

3) Yes. Soul Reaping is amazing. Any necro worth his salt has this.

Soul Reaping is invaluable on a busy battlefield. Early on it's hard to appreciate. At later levels, when you can have 9 or more assigned to it, you begin to wonder how you made it so far without it.

8+ soul reaping skills ftw. try it foryourself.....

Odd thing this....there are no Soul Reaping "skills", though there may have once been in an earliesr form of the game (as seen in Droknar's Forge, there is still a Soul Reaping skill mod on the collector's item there)..just an attribute. As far as attributes go, I have a Blood necro with all points in Blood and SR...rarley run low on energy once the bodies start to drop...every body that hits the ground is a spell I get to cast without waiting for mana to recharge (respectively). Run with a MM/MF and you almost never run low...Pick one atribute and max it out, put all else in soul reaping and see what happens...then try the same exact build, but set the skill points in SR aside as unused...play each way for an hour...I guarantee you'll see the benifit (Warning: do NOT try this in PvP team play with people who know what you are doing or care about wining...I will not be held responsible for their language.)

I myself, when running full blood necro, have 15 in blood, 13 in soul reap, and 3 in protection prayers (for rebirth). i absolutely LOVE having my soul reap that high. I use wells a lot as a staple of my blood necro build. Well of Blood and Well of Power...when they overlap...10 (possibly 12) pips of health regen and 2 more pips of energy regen. Mmmmmm. Everyone i've partied with in pugs ends up loving My precious wells.

And as far as triggering soul reap, as far as ive noticed, anything within an eye's distance that is killed gets me my +13 energy. This includes party members, pets, ghostly heroes, minions, shadows...etc.

A good place to Test out your Soul Reaping Range is D'alessio Seaboard. Just head to the Mission Outpost and see what your max range is for your soul reap to be triggered. (The White Mantle are killing all those undead things outside)

Good luck

Thank you for the input, guys.

Even at lower experience levels it helps a lot. I'm running a N/Me through the game now, and I've been making absolutely sure that my Soul Reaping is AT LEAST 5. Even without minions, that random bump of energy is nice, and it's even better after you frag a target.