Guild Wars 2

Warriors have it, Thieves have it, Necro’s have it, Engineers have it and Ele’s have it in earth attunement.

I’m new to the ranger, but it strikes me as odd that Rangers (mesmer also) don’t have an auto attack that consistently applies bleed. I’ll say right now that I don’t really consider the short-bow to be that weapon since it has a condition that you must be on the side or behind your target to bleed them. I don’t understand the design decision that can makes the auto attack completely useless for some builds depending on which way your target happens to be facing. It’s just flat out bad design.

Just thought I’d throw that out there to get it some attention. It’s a simple fix which just requires the addition of bleeding and lowering the bleed duration so that it only stacks ~3 times before they start falling off.

Preacher

The reason why is because rangers have pets that are able to apply bleed. Rangers have more access to bleed than any other class. Even with the requirement rangers can apply 25 stack of bleed in a matter of seconds.

You have to take the class as a whole and not just look at one skill.

However we do lack aoe conditions. Traps, piercing arrows, and axes just don’t cut it. Number of Affected targets isn’t reliable or recharge is to long.

Serraphin I agree that Rangers have the ability to stack a good amount of bleeds, but the same can be said about the other classes that have bleeding auto-attacks. Personaly I just find it odd that as you say the class with the most access to bleeds has no “reliable” way to apply them through their auto-attacks.

Preacher

If you take a condi ranger and put him against a sw/sw + LB warrior it isn’t even close. The warrior can pump out way more bleeds + torment. If I have adrenaline up I can max stack you with bleeds in ~2-3 seconds (depending on crits).

Honestly I don’t understand why they don’t just let SB have bleed on all auto-attacks. Really the best way to keep bleed up besides that is with a sw/t a/d build with sigils of geomancy and 20 in BM for the feline bleed on crit trait with a lynx. I use that with an apothecary setup for roaming and it is really fun (and very effective).