Guild Wars 2

I’m assuming this is a bug and not a “feature” but it seems about 25% of the time that I apply torment to an enemy in PvE they are instantly cleansed of all stacks of bleeding.

I probably never would have noticed since I stack them back up so quickly along with everyone else in group, expect it started getting me killed in the gauntlet where every tick matters and it’s 1v1.

I’ve tested it multiple times, it seems to happen randomly, I can’t figure out what triggers it.

I haven’t notice it. I’ll try when I have the chance.
One thing though, I have a (bad) habit of going DS4 then DS5. DS4 creates lots of fake short bleeds from barbed precision, so by the time I use DS5, those fake bleeds could wear off already.

Ofc it could be just me having the habit, and I really didn’t pay much attention to it.

Can fellow necros who farm DeadEye Dumwell test the following which happened to me just now (submitted ingame bug report under Skill/Trait Behaviour):

Do your normal rotation to take out DED but before you kill him switch to DS, pop DS#5 , watch your bleed stacks, TS applies 1 stack of torment each second during the green/black tendrils, but at the last part where it blasts to deal dmg + immobilize that’s when you will see it remove all the bleed stacks. Not during the tendril torment stacking.

I had 16 bleeds on DED (Dark Path / Geomancy / Scepter 1+2 / Dagger 4+5 / BiP / SoS / bleed on crit trait.

Gonna test this outside on normal mobs/vets/champs solo. And maybe on other champs of Arena.

Kajin.5301:

Can fellow necros who farm DeadEye Dumwell test the following which happened to me just now (submitted ingame bug report under Skill/Trait Behaviour):

Do your normal rotation to take out DED but before you kill him switch to DS, pop DS#5 , watch your bleed stacks, TS applies 1 stack of torment each second during the green/black tendrils, but at the last part where it blasts to deal dmg + immobilize that’s when you will see it remove all the bleed stacks. Not during the tendril torment stacking.

I had 16 bleeds on DED (Dark Path / Geomancy / Scepter 1+2 / Dagger 4+5 / BiP / SoS / bleed on crit trait.

Gonna test this outside on normal mobs/vets/champs solo. And maybe on other champs of Arena.

just tested on T3 Chomper + Stromgar, no gambit. Didn’t remove any bleed on the blast part of Tainted.

Kajin.5301:

Can fellow necros who farm DeadEye Dumwell test the following which happened to me just now (submitted ingame bug report under Skill/Trait Behaviour):

Do your normal rotation to take out DED but before you kill him switch to DS, pop DS#5 , watch your bleed stacks, TS applies 1 stack of torment each second during the green/black tendrils, but at the last part where it blasts to deal dmg + immobilize that’s when you will see it remove all the bleed stacks. Not during the tendril torment stacking.

I had 16 bleeds on DED (Dark Path / Geomancy / Scepter 1+2 / Dagger 4+5 / BiP / SoS / bleed on crit trait.

Gonna test this outside on normal mobs/vets/champs solo. And maybe on other champs of Arena.

Please do.

If this is replicating in WvW, I am going to be avoiding the skill. I may try to test as well in SPVP.

For the record, I noticed this happening against that specific mob as well, but it is the first time I have killed the same mob enough times to notice a big difference.

Just reproduced it on DED 5gambit, 13 stacks gone. Again only removed at the blast part.

Tried DED with no gambit: couldn’t reproduce it.

Tried DED with just Squeamish: couldn’t reproduce it.

Quite annoying trying to find out what is exactly causing this. Is it remaining in range of Tainted victim or going out of range at blast time or what I don’t know.
Back to farming.

Try it out on golems (do they have those in PvE? they really really should), and on someone in WvW if you can find an enemy that can help out.

reproduced it 6 more times, always during DED5G. was always when I was at hugging range of DED, be it in human form or in DS form at the moment of blast.

Not tried it on anybody besides deadeye, just noticed it while farming him too – Tainted Shackles was also removing all of the vulnerability stacks on him the moment the immobilise landed, wiping their remaining ~7-8 seconds duration out. That farm got me out of the habit of just instinctively hitting 5. >_>

Edit: Just quick “testing” (if it can be called that >_>) with a couple of different families of mobs in a few maps, with the setup I was using for Dunwell – I’m not seeing the condi-removal with them. Might/hopefully is restricted to him.