Bleeding

The visual effect of a bleeding character : blood-colored mist circling around the waist

The visual effect on the health bar of a bleeding character : pale pink color and three arrows of degeneration

Condition. While suffering from this injury, you lose Health over time.

Concise description: You have -3 Health degeneration.

— In-game description

Related skills

Skills that cause bleeding

• Barbarous Slice — if not in a stance.
• Crippling Slash (elite)
• Deadly Riposte — blocks next melee attack and inflicts bleeding on the attacker.
• Deflect Arrows — if a projectile attack is blocked.
• Desperation Blow/Drunken Blow — 25% chance on hit.
• Lacerating Chop — if target is knocked down.
• Seeking Blade — if blocked.
• Sever Artery
• Barbed Arrows
• Barbed Trap
• Brambles — when any creature is knocked down.
• Feral Lunge — if target is attacking.
• Glass Arrows (elite) — if blocked.
• Hunter's Shot
• Lacerate (elite)
• Melandru's Arrows (elite)
• Melandru's Shot (elite)
• Screaming Shot — if target is within earshot.
• Strike as One (elite)
• Animate Shambling Horror — the jagged horror created after the minion dies causes bleeding with its attacks.
• Barbed Signet
• Blood Drinker — on yourself if health is above 50%.
• Cultist's Fervor (elite) — on yourself each time you cast a Necromancer spell.
• Jagged Bones (elite) — the minion created causes bleeding with its attacks.
• Rip Enchantment — if an enchantment is removed from target.
• Signet of Agony — on yourself.
• Signet of Suffering (elite) — on yourself and on the foe targeted by your next Necromancer skill.
• Ulcerous Lungs — if target uses a shout or chant.
• Stone Daggers — if you are affected by Overcast.
• Jagged Strike
• Sharpen Daggers — while wielding daggers.
• Twisting Fangs
• Barbed Spear
• Aura of Thorns
• Aura Slicer
• Wounding Strike (elite)
• Black Powder Mine (PvE-only)
• Ear Bite (PvE-only)
• Deft Strike (PvE-only) — if target has Cracked Armor.
• Ebon Vanguard Sniper Support (PvE-only)
• Raven Talons (PvE-only — while using Raven Blessing (elite))

Skills that benefit from bleeding

• Ulcerous Lungs

Skills with bleeding-dependent effects

• Gash
• Lacerate (elite)
• Maiming Spear
• Signet of Infection (PvE-only)

Notes

• Bleeding is a condition that causes 3 pips of health degeneration on a character. The visual indication of bleeding is a ring of dark red mist around a character's waist. The health bar for the affected character also turns pale pink.
• If the affected character is also suffering from either disease or poison, or from a health degeneration hex, his health bar will be either green or purple, respectively, rather than pink.
• Like poison and disease, bleeding only affects fleshy creatures.
• Barbed weapon upgrades lengthen the duration of bleeding by 33%.
• A Rune of Restoration or the inscription "Fear Cuts Deeper" can be used to reduce the duration of bleeding by 20%.
• Bleeding is often caused by attacks. It can be used as a pressure and/or cover condition. There are a few skills that require it on a target for additional effects.
• Bleeding in itself isn't usually a big problem, but can play an important role in condition pressure-builds. You should also keep an eye out for it when facing builds that use skills that need a condition as a prerequisite, as it is relatively easy to inflict and often lasts for a rather long time.

See also

The Guild Wars 2 Wiki also has an article on Bleeding.

• List of condition removal skills

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