Guild Wars 2

Weapons: Axe/Torch —- Shortbow

Testing on golems tonight I was trying to see how much burning duration I could get on a target with bonfire and then shooting shortbow for combo field.

So I would lay down bonfire, switch to bow and auto-attack while standing in the field to test. During the duration of bonfire, I might get one burn on the target. So my warrior friend shot through the field standing out of it, and stacked a good amount of burn on the target.

So our conclusion at first was that I needed to lay bonfire down, dodge back, then shoot from outside the field to get my burns on. Well … I was surprised when all I did was stack bleeds through the field.

Shooting head on, so crossfire was not the issue. Not traited to bleed on crit so count that out. Pet was on passive, so nothing from there. It just stacked bleeds instead of burns. And it was a constant stack .. I kept 6 stacks just on auto-fire till bonfire ran out.

Also, is it suppose to only work from outside the field, and not in it?

If this is already known forgive me. I did a quick search for it, but found nothing. And if it is not known. Can someone please test it out to see if i am correct.

Thank you.

Just retested. It does not do it 100% of the time. But when it does get one bleed on, it keeps stacking them till bonfire runs out.

Ok, I apologize. Apparently I was just enough to the side of the Golem to get crossfire to engage. I thought you had to be further to his side to get it to stack bleeds, but apparently not. Sorry again.

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Ok, I apologize. Apparently I was just enough to the side of the Golem to get crossfire to engage. I thought you had to be further to his side to get it to stack bleeds, but apparently not. Sorry again.

nope you have a 270 degree arc to apply bleeds in.

As for proccing the flame crossfire is a 20%, I suspect the warriors dual fire which is also 20 may apply 2 at a time and simply random chance.

You can be inside the field shooting out.