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use it if you know, you will die anyway and want help your group.
Bleed needs too long to kill anything. Its more like a tool for special situationes, not my most used used style.

Does mind hit/bleed increase with finese? The skill box info indicates that it does. As we know the exp doesn't seem to do anything but it does say it increases ability to would the mind.

I recenlty attained avd. finese. I never used mind bleed at int level because it didn't seem to do much. Over the weekend I started playing around wtih it and found it to be quite effective.

Examples:

1) My pet and I were doing canibal dewback missions. I knewwe couldn't take all 5 that were usually there since they aggro and pack. My pet is level 34 so I figured I would run around and tap them all with the mind hit. With whatever life I had left I used head hits on the ones i thought I could take. After getting incapped (canibal dewbs don't kill) I noticed 450-650 blues coming out of all them. By the time I revived and made camp three were dead and the pet took the last two.

2)A group of twenty of us decided to work the AT-ST npc near coronette. There was one other2H and a doc who healed keep are green barup. We used mind hit on it as well. Half of the younger players were soon dead and the 2hder and I kept working the mind. After we all got incapped I noticed the same thing.. pretty blue -650, -640, -656, etc coming out of it about every 5 seconds. After a mintute or so the thing actually fell!

It seems that this is the ultimate weapon for 2h? The Master Skill box seems indicates that. I haven't used this in PvP that much (since I don't PvP that much) but I wouldn't want to be on the other end of it.

Well using mindhit2 I can get a 1200-1300 bleed going.

Personally, my first attack in a battle is usually mind hit. The reasoning is because you never really know where the battle will turn and getting in a good dot isn't a bad idea if things go sour. Additionally, it hits for a pretty decent amount and doesn't have a huge ham cost. When soloing ewoks and the like I send the pet in, open up with mind hit and then scalp them to death. If more then one come then I mind hit each one and focus on the first one.. by the time I get to the last mob it's usually over 50% blue dead.

Another question about this:

Is the power of the first mindhit the amount it will continue to bleed. I noticed while killing Mountain Squill at full health I could get in the 780-800 range (my sword is down to 400 quality and can't find another on sunrunner). When I was almost incapped I hit a second but the mindbleeds were only in the 200 range?

thanks

Bleeds have their place. It depends on how long the monster will last though, whether it's worth it or not.

IMHO i think that MindHit1 was useless but the MindHit2 w/ a powerhammer is the powerful sworman style. MindHit2 bleeding for 2000 2500dmg x tick w/ PH. I use it to kill multiple target at same time, the pet take the aggro and i'll hit all target w/ mindhit2, after that i'll focus on one hitting w/ the tohandhit2 style to help Mob's mind falling down.

This is the faster way to soloing multiple target and the same technique was useful Vs the highest lvl mob (jedi - At-At - Giant dune kimo and go on). U'll send a pet and hit w/ bleeding from 4-5m, than run away and spam peace.

P.s. For a single Mob the best techique is hit w/ tohit3 until the target was dizzy .. after that a sweep to posture down them (only work on the Humanoid cos Posture down seem to no affect creature at all).

hmm..

mind2 also good when u in the WAR, especiall with FATAL or imps hehe O_o

just come close to them then mind2 and run away and target other! keep yerself alive and.. just wait till all of them incap and DB it!!

and with PH now! the mind2 is awesome!!!!

tiyo

Master Heavy Swordsmen

Master Brawler

hmm..

mind2 also good when u in the WAR, especiall with FATAL or imps hehe O_o

just come close to them then mind2 and run away and target other! keep yerself alive and.. just wait till all of them incap and DB it!!

and with PH now! the mind2 is awesome!

tiyo

Master Heavy Swordsmen

Master Brawler

The damage mind bleed does is the same as the damage the hit does when you use it.

Say you hit a_mob_1 for 1500 damage. It will continue to take 1500 damage over time then, if you use another mind hit afterwards and it hits for say 1600, then the later will be the damage that the mob takes from the bleeding. I havent test wether the second mind hit overwrites or not if it's lower damage then the bleeding that is already applied to the mob, but I do belive it doesnt and it's only the highest damage one that takes effect.

Best I've seen so far was vs a rebel npc and I had my powerhammer equiped, I managed to land a 2300 damage mind bleed. Needless to say he dident last very long. This was with the mind bleed 1.

Sounds like PH is the best for mindbleedsince your putting most of your effort into that first shot (with high level mobs or PvP)

Another Q for 2h CHer's.(my current path) Is there a particular pet or pet special that goes well in tandem with mindbleed? Perhaps one of the spiders has a mind poison?Maybea knock down or posture down pet goes well to give the bleed more time?

thanks for responses on earlier replies.