Guild Wars 2

Hello, I am a warrior in a 5 man group.
We have a 3 classes that use condition damage, and stack that stat.
With them on boss fights we are hitting between 20-25 stacks of bleed at all times.

I am wondering if I use a rifle(primary attack has a bleed), will i be reducing their damage? My stats are focused on tanking and I have no condition damage bonuses.
—I need to have a range switch off for some fights.

I don’t want my crappy rifle bleeds to overwrite their super bleeds—as i get 4-6 stacks of bleed with it. 4-6 of my stacks that could easily be held by my partners ends up being a pretty good amount of damage loss for them.
—Unless their bleeds overwrite mine, and if my bleeds don’t apply when there is already 25 more powerful stacks on the target.

Thanks in advance for the information, I appreciate it.

The rifle has some great damage, even without the bleed on its primary. If it ends up reducing my party members damage, i think it might be best to switch to a longbow.

If the people geared for condition damage are hitting 25 stacks before you attack then yes, your reducing their damage by however many stacks of bleed you will be putting on.

This also counts for them as well though, if between all 3 of them they are applying more than 25 stacks of bleeds they are replacing each others bleeds constantly which will be lowering all of their damage over time.