Guild Wars 2

Follow-up to discussion in the PvE condition ranger thread.

Sharpened Edges seems to be bugged the same way as Sharpening Stone. I tested it for nearly half an hour both in the mists and in the regular PvE environment. I never got more than 6 bleeds from Splitblade (Axe 2). Sometimes I got 7 but I’m pretty sure that was from the autoattack firing immediately after the splitblade.

This was with ~50% crit chance, and upon reviewing the combat log this included many times that 4 or all 5 axes from Splitblade crit. If it were working properly I should have gotten:

5 bleeds 13.5% of the time
6 bleeds 33% of the time
7 bleeds 33% of the time
8 bleeds 16% of the time
9 bleeds 4% of the time
10 bleeds 0.4% of the time

I’ve been getting ~5 stacks with rapid fire @ 70-90% crit chance.

So, if all the hits connect at the same time it will not proc multiple times, yet if there is a gap between the hits like RF, it can proc multiple times? Could it in fact have a very short ICD? Like mili-seconds.

Heimskarl Ashfiend.9582:

So, if all the hits connect at the same time it will not proc multiple times, yet if there is a gap between the hits like RF, it can proc multiple times? Could it in fact have a very short ICD? Like mili-seconds.

no it’s not.
From Axe2 it apply up to 9 stacks for me. 5base and 4 additional form crits.

ps. running in Sinester for 2 weeka already.

Sounds like more testing required. Just use this. Swap weapons in combat for fury, then you have 100% crit chance and can test Sharpened Edges with Splitblade very easily. I would do this myself to confirm, but I cannot login atm.

Yeah, I encourage others to test it. Maybe there’s something stupid I’m missing or something I’m doing wrong. BTW, with 100% crit chance, the expected frequencies are:

5 bleeds – 0.45%
6 bleeds – 4.4%
7 bleeds – 17.1%
8 bleeds – 33.2%
9 bleeeds – 32.3%
10 bleeds – 12.5%

With 80% crit chance it’s:

5 bleeds – 2.3%
6 bleeds – 13.1%
7 bleeds – 29.3%
8 bleeds – 32.8%
9 bleeeds – 18.3%
10 bleeds – 4.1%