Guild Wars 2

I’ve seen people on YouTube and in my guild get a full 25 stack of bleeds on a target within a matter of seconds, my question to my fellow necromancers, is how? The maximum I can usually get is about 12 stacks.

davidhoughton.2104:

I’ve seen people on YouTube and in my guild get a full 25 stack of bleeds on a target within a matter of seconds, my question to my fellow necromancers, is how? The maximum I can usually get is about 12 stacks.

S/D+Staff+Utility.

Are those people also playing necros? Because that is a pretty important distinction, I’m not actually sure if one necro can hit the cap without using a condition transfer.

Edit: hit it quickly, that is. If you use a rabid build it isn’t difficult to stack up those bleeds with decent crit chance and long duration bleeds, but we don’t apply a lot of bleeds in a few seconds, it takes a few seconds of auto attacks to stack them up.

Mark of Evasion for 2 bleeds, Blood is Power+Deathly Swarm for 4 bleeds, Grasping Dead for 3, Enfeebling Blood for 2, Mark of Blood for 3.

Assume about 2 Sigil of Earth procs for 2 more and you are still only at 16 bleeds with our most rapid bleed stacking cooldowns spent. Geomancy sigil adds another 3 for 19 stacks (must be done as late as possible to maximize sigil of earth procs due to cooldown). Dark Path possibly for another 3 bleeds gets us to 22, but we’ve blown every cooldown we have that bleeds and some of the stacks are falling off now unless you invested well into bleed duration.

I don’t count Barbed Precision because the duration is so low, it doesn’t really work for stacking.

It’s possible to get to the cap as a necro, but it requires very specific sigils and skill order as well as blowing the majority of your cooldowns. Overall, not worth it. Takes about 6 seconds to do as well.

As my esteemed fellow necros said… We dont stack 25 bleeds on a target by ourselves unless just about everything procs or some Mesmer Time Warps us.