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I just made Novice Swordsman, and love it, but I keep hearing rumors of these mind bleeds. Looking at the skill boxes, nothing claims to be a bleed, so what skill is being referred to?

That's a darn good question, I believe it has something to do with power hammers but I haven't read anywhere how specifically it's accomplished.

the attacks called mind hits are bleeds and they do nice wounds as well.

They are in the Sword Finesse line, and called Two-handed Mind Hit 1 & 2. These moves do no initial damage, but will then do a damage over time attack on the opponent's mind pool. Use your most damaging weapon when doing a mind bleed.

Sweet ... maybe I should pick that up before advacing up the next level of defense ... but all those extras in defense are soooo tempting!

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Drakronis wrote:
They are in the Sword Finesse line, and called Two-handed Mind Hit 1 & 2. These moves do no initial damage, but will then do a damage over time attack on the opponent's mind pool. Use your most damaging weapon when doing a mind bleed.

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I believe these moves do your normal sword auto-attack damage on the initial attack.

They are the combat xp skill tree.

I thought that might be them, but the description doesn't say they are bleeds, just that they cause wounds. I assume it works like disease then?

Get both bleedsto hitand you can solo a Krayt, they're awesome!
You need a pair of maulers too though :/

Fhuzzy
MCH, Master Swordsman
Wanderhome

Mind, Action, Health hits are all bleeds. Marksmen get them all at master marksmen as I recall. Brawlers get them as they go up the different trees. Fencer footwork does health, pikeman comabt xp line does them, our combat xp line does them. BTW, AS of right now master brawler/ master swordsman don't need nothin to solo a krayt. I heard they are getting much touhger though! 300k HAM on TC! Ouch!

erm in response to that mind bleed damage thing, the first actual hit of the mind bleed doesn't damage the mind pool at all, the damage only happens after the first tick, which i find quite annoying especially considering that when a commando does his DOT, i.e the flame dot it actually damages with the first hit as well. and in a duel this is what kills u when u get crisped by a commando in less than a sec flat. If our mind bleed did damage as well as cause damage from then onwards, then we'd have more of a chance

When you successfully do a mind hit, either *body hit*, *action hit*, or *mind hit* will float above the victim's head, but the hit itself will do zero damage.

Mind, Action, Health hits are all bleeds. Marksmen get them all at master marksmen as I recall. Brawlers get them as they go up the different trees. Fencer footwork does health, pikeman comabt xp line does them, our combat xp line does them. BTW, AS of right now master brawler/ master swordsman don't need nothin to solo a krayt. I heard they are getting much touhger though! 300k HAM on TC! Ouch!

Marksman get their 1st bleed from level 4 of their respective disciplines.

IE you get the first level health bleed at marksman pistol IV, first level action bleed at Carbine IV and first levelmind bleed at Rifle IV.

For pistols and carbines you get your second level bleed at novice. Novice pistoleer gets 2nd health bleed and novice carbineer gets 2nd action bleed

Riflemen get it in one of their tier 1 skill boxes. Why? Beats me

about needing 2 maulers to solo krayts....

Went out to my first krayt hunt, im melee why would I want to hunt them...... We find a nest of them there is a juvenile and a mother well someone shot the nest now there are 2 mothers and 2 juveniles, and they are coming for our 6 man group.... pets are sent out on the canyon krayts, and the 2 juves are running at me. I warcried stunning them both got a lucky kd and planted 2 mind bleeds exceeding 8k total bleed on the first one. Attempted kd on the second it failed applied mind bleeds near 5k total. Intimidated the krayts ran away like a girl with burst run wishing I had brought some armor with me and not just my clothes... I get hit 1 time and I activate center of being heal myself and reapply warcry. Spam head hit 3 on the one with the lowest mind pool bleed ticks for the second time, and it dies to the next hit I do. the 2nd still up at half mind I proceed to reapply mindhit 2 and headhit 3 over and over reactivating CoB, and 1 more warcry and he was dead. I did however incap and use force of will to stand back up on the second juvenile.

Juvenile canyon krayt had near 18k ham,, mommy had 30k not sure how I would do against one of those, but I could see needing a healer or atleast some doc buffs and maybe armor.

I love being a swordsman.