Guild Wars 2

When using Warrior runes My weapon swap is 6 seconds.
If I use my Swords Hornet sting to jump back out of melee combat, I can then hit Quickening Zepher to slap 5 seconds of Crossfire and it’s Bleeds on my opponent with my Shortbow. That leaves time of one more second for either Poison Volley or Crippling shot.

Quite often my opponent already has a large stack of bleeds and Crossfire tops it off at 25 so while Crippling shot does more damage than Poison Volley, it’s doing more bleed. The Poison Volley would add to the poison stack my opponent may still be carrying from my Swords 7 1/4 second Serpent Strike poison, or restart the stack.

Maybe this is a fight by fight thing and I have to just use the best for the circumstances but it’s hard not to use the most powerful skill every time. Any ideas?

Poison, no doubt about it imo. While the bleed stacks are doing the “damage” the poison is negating a large chunk of the players healing power. Against regen types this is essential to whittle them down, where bleeds alone would not do the work. The two work hand in hand. Poison should be kept up as much as possible, so that the bleeds are getting past the healing factor.

Poison Volley, crip shot should be used more “defensively” (if that makes sense), not to mention the quickness wont benefit it as well as poison volley seeing as how poison volley has a cast time and crip shot technically doesn’t.

Poison. Crippling should be saved as a defensive move or to slow an opponent’s escape.

edit—-What Durzlla said.

Personally I’d save both for when you need them but if you want to pick on them yeah, poison volley.

I tend to keep poison volley till either my opponent is healing/I think their about to heal or until I happen to be in melee range anyway, so I just make the most of it and hit with with all 5 arrows because I can.

Using it at max range for no reason does seem a bit of a waste tbh.