Swordsman Archive

Note, I'm a pistoleer/swordsmith, so I only sort of know what I'm talking about.

Since 2h swords do so much damage per hit, their bleeds are also of much larger magnitude than a pistoleers, for instance. So really, they're pretty great.

Also, I'll admit that having mainly kinetic damage weapons looks like a drag, but remember that all the weapons are AR2 (except the worthless vibro axe). And that makes a BIG difference as opposed to using an AR0 weapon.

I think something like a light saber (but you know, not really a light saber) would be great for the profession.

Wounding = Bleeding

Only bleeds cause wounds beyond what the weapon's default wound chance is.

These are wounds to the secondary stats, so using Mind Hit 1 will give them a bleed/dot and also a rather nasty wound to their Focus or Willpower.

And as it's been pointed out hitting them with Mind Hit 1 and then Mind Hit 2 will put two bleeds on them that stack with eachother (though the wounds do not stack I believe).

-Shi

Apparently you never used mindhit1 either.

Well, here in the wonderful galaxy of Radiant mind hit 1 and 2 must be broken, because when i use them they never cause bleeding, wounds sure but no bleeds. But, as others have said this is mostly in PvE; in PvP I'm too busy chasing gunners to worry about bleeds...as Marahxiboh said most players go down with one head hit or 2 hand 3. After I've postured the runner I like to finish it with a quickness not worry about bleeds

Then it either must be you, or your weapons.

I can pretty consistently land large bleed hits with both my two-handed curved sword and power hammer (more consistently with the curved sword of course, because of the far better range mod), and I'm on the same server.

sorry about that triple post...hit space and magic happened.

As to using a bleed and it causing wounds and not actually bleeding the opponent, it could be that you're not waiting long enough to see the effect, the first time I used a bleed it did some damage but then I killed the creature with the next shot.
Bleeds are most effective against opponents that take some amount of time to beat down, it's like a DOT, for all those DAoC players

Does anyone know what the actual delay is between damages from a bleed?

As a rifleman/swordsman (well very nearly at least) I can't wait till I can apply 4 bleeds to something.

Many a time I have watched whilst I was incapped my opponent slowly bleed to death, it's like revenge from beyond the grave OOOHHH SPOOKY (well yeah I was just incapped but you get the idea)

I've watched opponents bleed to death after they deathblow me

I believe each tick of a bleed is in the region of 18 seconds, and they last for about 6 ticks.