Guild Wars 2

How would you feel about changing the sword’s auto atk bleed from, 8 secs duration to 4 secs duration but x2 bleed? So it’s the same dmg but faster.

The dmg pay off from the bleed, can be a bit lengthy, especially as you need to be in close and chase in order to melee in the first place. Personally i use sword/board+LB and can solo stack 20 bleeds, with 70% duration solely from traits. In a PvE environment, the bleeds are wasted when paired which another conditon build, as the max is 25. And in a PvP environment, 1 bleed itself from the auto atk is 13 secs, alot of that long dmg duration can be negated with condition removal to remove the 1 stack of bleeds. Which leaves the sword with the sub-par pure physical atk, and about 1/2 the bleed dmg.

Does the change bring the condition side of the war more in line with it’s “faster dps” intended role, giving more distinction from a necro or is it over powered?

I suggested this earlier a while ago, there is no point to using a sword over a rifle and longbow for conditions at the moment, its just not enough pressure.

Sigil of Doom helps, on weapon slot you had Poison.

You just have to keep that swap going, as you should have your weapon swap down to 5 secs, more then enough time to keep the poison on the target.

You’ll find your bleeds last longer once you keep stacking cripple, Poison, immobilize, weakness, Bleed, burn.