Vampire hits on melee only?

I'm pretty sure I saw an answer for this, but don't remember where or what it was.
1) Does vampirism pop on crossbows and thrown?
2) Does vampirism pop on magic kills?

 

1) No
2) No

You can't really drink someone's blood from range :/

 

Thought so.

 

It's not bad though. I'm Vlad the equal-rights human resorce manager, here to tell you that we absolutely rape when our melee is high enough, and have much more efficently managed space now that we can ignore food. I'm not a vampire.

 

Doesn't it rely on spell power for better results, though?

Guess you won't be wearing very heavy armor...

 

it does use spell power atm, but they're going to remedy that Soon™.

 

@ComradeRoost or you can go fungal arts and just use the first skill (no further investment needed) to spawn some greedy blungecap's that will give you temporary life steal for the fights where you'll need it, with out any of the extra draw backs of vampirism. Not to mention the other mushrooms and their amazing buffs as well.

 

Shroomin' has a lot of advantages, but it also requires a lot of planting on corpses. -.-

 

From a mechanical standpoint Fungal Arts is strictly better than Vampirism, but unfortunately from a player standpoint it about as interesting as watching grass grow

 

I picked vampirism on my first time through and had a magic based character... i died fast