Guild Wars 2

The only time the bleed really comes into effect is for a condition builds. With this any good PvP’er, they would know facing you removes a large chunk of damage. This makes a lot of your damage dependent on the knowledge of your opponent. AKA skill caps condition rangers for killing newbies, destroys a condi ranger’s 1v1 damage and gimps a ranger that’s being focused.

That’s why you cover your bleeds other conditions, like poison.

Skills that remove multiple condition stacks often have long CDs. In between, due to the fast attack rate of Shortbow, you’re still getting in a LOT of bleeds.

This post seems like a reply to something, but I’m not sure what…

Anyways, most good PvP condition builds rely on conditions either from axe/torch or from traps anyways. Sb bleeds help, but they’re not something you really rely on.