Guild Wars 2

If you’re focusing on a single target and your ricochet is only hitting once and you’re getting tired of it, see if you can pull your target to 2 nearby trees or boxes/crates or some kind of environmental objects like that, because the axe will hit that target 3 times, and it works even better if its in more compact space because your dps just jumps.
If this gets nerfed, i might be a sad ranger, but I guess ill still use axe/torch or maybe axe/axe. Though I do wish that Splitblade was a projectile finisher and that the 5 stacks of bleeding would hit more reliably, because you have to be pretty much in your targets face in order to land the full 5stacks of bleeding.

Actually I usually am in the enemy’s face when I use Splitblade. I am very fond of dual axes, so I typically use Path of Scars to pull them, Splitblade for bleed, and then Whirling Defense for vulnerability. Works well enough in pvp to make my opponent run away most of the time, and is great in pve. I remember falling in love with axes during Secret of Southsun when I discovered Whirling Defence pretty much singlehandedly kills karka.

yeah it a quite efficient mechanic i have used it many times.

too bad there are better weapon with lower risk and higher reward out there