Blood is power bug
If you don’t target anyone, you don’t deliver any bleeds to yourself.
It’s a most excellent way of prebuffing.
for there you have been and there you will long to return.
I play most of the time with auto target turned off. There are multiple advantages on various professions that you can use when you do not have anything targeted.
I do not classify them as bugs per se. I hope that Anet does not either. If they were to change this very minor feature of the skill I would hope that several other skills on the other professions would be equally adjusted.
Working as intended.
If I wasn’t lazy I would dig up the patch note from when they made it not apply the self-bleed, but I am, so just rest assured that there is no bug here.
You also don’t hit anyone with the offensive bleed if you have no target.
Considering you can just transfer, consume, or transform the self bleed, you are losing out overall by not hitting someone unless your intent was to keep out of combat speed up to catch someone while also pre-buffing.
(edited by Overkillengine.6084)
BiP is more useful applying the two bleeds; especially if you want vigor.