Carbineer Archive

pistoleers get 2 bleed shots (healthshot1, healthshot2) how many do carbines get?

Mahz

Same - 2. actionshot1 and actionshot2. The latter is area of effect (does not say so in the description so not sure if this is a bug or a feature) so it's a lot trickier to stack both bleeds on a mob without annoying anything standing anywhere near it.

Actionshot 2 hits multiple targets pissing them of, but it only seems to bleed one of them at a time,usually not the one that you have targetted.

True - it's such a buggy attack I didn't want to confuse the poor guy by saying that if it hits *only* your target it bleeds, but if it hits your target + adds it seemingly randomly chooses who bleeds. I do find it useful for novice carbineers as their first aoe attack hehe. You get it at novice long before you get any proper area attacks.

Actionshot1 is a reliable single-target bleed. If it hits, it starts a bleed and can also cause a posture-down.

The aoe aspect of actionshot2 makes it very dangerous to use in most situations.

However, the bleed stacks on top of actionshot1. I've landed 800~900pt bleeds by stacking them.

In addition, actionshot2 works great when you need to cover your rear in a retreat. The although it doesn't apply the bleed to all the targets in the cone properly, it does effectively aoe posture down. It's saved me and my group mates many times by giving us a few precious additional seconds to burst run out of a bad aggro spawn.

Did anyone notice a reduction in damage with the bleeds? I used to get up to 800 for AS1 and 1200 for AS2, now its mor like 550 for AS1 and 800-900 for AS2. Did I miss something in the patchnotes? Or was this introduced a while ago? (I have been gone for a bit so I might not have seen it in any notes)

I got a 950 Bleed from AS1 and a 1300 Bleed from AS2 in my combat window last night using a Laser Carbine on some permanently knocked down Borgle Life Sappers. Man, was that funny.