Guild Wars 2

So the trait Sharpened Edges has a description which says: “Chance to cause bleeding on critical hits”. Was it always like that? Didn’t it have a percentage before..? :-o

It was always a ~50%.
They changed the wording to make this more clear.

It was 33% I think, but tooltip doesn’t say how many % exactly for a while.

So when did they change this? I didn’t see this change in any patch notes..

Maybe with the release, or before

So did the chance to create bleed decrease or …?

i personally skip the trait, because with shortbow, the 1st skill automatically bleed enemy if you flank them….

But if you flank them AND crit, you can stack bleeds twice as fast! :O!!!!! You might even be able to get to 25 stacks all by yourself!!

ah..stacking…. yes…. forgot about that….

The tooltip for the trait has not included a percentage chance since before the game launched. It appears to be about 33% but I haven’t tested it.

I doubt it was “stealth nerfed.” What would be the point of that? It’s a pretty underwhelming trait that probably contributes no more than 2 or 3 percent to a ranger’s total damage output. Adjusting it would have basically no effect on overall class balance at all.

Isn’t it a component of a crit build?

I use it in my PvE condition crit build. I’m pretty sure it’s a terrible build but I’m confused as hell on how to gear my ranger for dungeons and my weapons.

I don’t like that trait for one reason, the duration. The bleed effect just last for 1-2sec, so you will see just 2 ticks, pretty useless…