Bleeding

Bleeding or bleed is a damaging ailment that deals physical damage over time.

Mechanics

Bleeding deals ?% of a hit's physical damage dealt (before mitigation and damage taken modifiers) as physical damage over time for 5 seconds. Bleeding deals three times as much damage (?%) while the target is moving. This percentage is affected multiplicatively by ailment effect/magnitude. Ailment damage cannot be scaled directly; however, it can be indirectly scaled by modifying the hit damage.

Bleeding does not stack; each instance of bleeding has an independent duration and only the highest damage instance of bleeding will deal damage.

The chance to apply bleeding depends on the amount of damage dealt. Critical strikes do not inherently always apply ailments, but they do indirectly affect the chance to apply ailments due to critical damage bonus affecting the damage dealt.

Bleeding can only be applied if the hit deals damage to the defender's life; damage solely dealt to energy shield or redirected to anything other than life will not apply bleeding. The damage over time from bleeding bypasses energy shield and damages life directly.

Note that bleeding can be applied by any skill that can hit, not exclusively attacks.

Aggravated Bleeding

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Version history

Version	Changes
0.1.0	Introduced to the game.