Guild Wars 2

So, this shot shows one of my skills. I understand it bleeds for 4 seconds, but what does the 5 inside the skill’s thumbnail mean?
Could someone explain the calculation for me, please?

Im new but i’m pretty sure its stacks of bleed.

Enus.2781:

Im new but i’m pretty sure its stacks of bleed.

I guessed that it was..But does that mean it’s 5 stacks of bleed, which each do 5 per second for 4 seconds?

Edit: I just tested it against an equal level, and ^that’s^ exactly what it is..Thanks =)

It means if all 5 of those shots hit, it will be 5 bleeds each lasting 4 seconds. You can miss 1 and it will be 4 bleeds lasting 4 seconds each, so on and so fourth.

It’s a pretty lame skill imo for how little it does but atm, that’s what it does.

Yes, just as you guessed. It packs 5 bleed stacks (if all 5 attacks hit, as NinjaEd said), which does in total 100 dmg under 4 seconds. This means that one stack of your bleeds does 20 dmg under 4 seconds (as you can see on your autoattack above), so one bleed stack does 5 dmg per second. That’s the number you see “rolling” over the head of your target when you have bleed on something, your damage per one stack bleed per second. All the stacks of all your bleed attacks will have the same dmg, e.g. if you equip 2 daggers, your death blossom attack will do 5*3*10=150 damage in total if I’m correct.

It really adds up @ level 80 when you increase Condition Damage to where each stack ticks for >125 HP each second and bleed duration to +100%: 5 * 125 * 8 = 5k

There is a build, or family of builds, that focuses on killing primarily with these bleeds.

frans.8092:

It really adds up @ level 80 when you increase Condition Damage to where each stack ticks for >125 HP each second and bleed duration to +100%: 5 * 125 * 8 = 5k

There is a build, or family of builds, that focuses on killing primarily with these bleeds.

I’ve got 3 skills now that cause bleeding, and at level 16 the damage I can output per second with just bleeding is 220, which is pretty sweet as it is, but holy hell that build sounds awesome =) Hopefully it’s not one that people complain about being OP though..