Guild Wars 2

The rifle has some great damage, even without the bleed on its primary. If it ends up reducing my party members damage, i think it might be best to switch to a longbow.

Hello, I am a warrior in a 5 man group.
We have a 3 classes that use condition damage, and stack that stat.
With them on boss fights we are hitting between 20-25 stacks of bleed at all times.

I am wondering if I use a rifle(primary attack has a bleed), will i be reducing their damage? My stats are focused on tanking and I have no condition damage bonuses.
—I need to have a range switch off for some fights.

I don’t want my crappy rifle bleeds to overwrite their super bleeds—as i get 4-6 stacks of bleed with it. 4-6 of my stacks that could easily be held by my partners ends up being a pretty good amount of damage loss for them.
—Unless their bleeds overwrite mine, and if my bleeds don’t apply when there is already 25 more powerful stacks on the target.

Thanks in advance for the information, I appreciate it.