Bleed Effect

A bleed effect is a physical attack that punctures, tears, or cuts in a manner that results in persistent bleeding. The persistent bleeding causes physical damage-over-time. Poison damage-over-time and Magical damage-over-time (such as fire damage) are not considered bleed effects.

Bleed Effects do zero damage to almost all Undead (but some boss Liches and mini-boss Liches are susceptible to bleed effects).

Avatar Skills that Inflict a Bleed Effect

• Rend
• Sawblade Sweep (a Combination skill)
• Hamstring (a Combination skill)
• Puncture
• Spinning Attack - bleed effect only inflicted by players with Polearm Specialization

Avatar Skills that Cancel a Bleed Effect

The skills below will cancel a damage-over-time effect, but will not cancel any non-damage debuff that was applied with the Bleed Effect. For example, rend will apply a damage-over-time and a Healing Modifier debuff, but the skills below will remove only the damage-over-time, and not the Healing Modifier debuff.

• Knight's Grace - removes multiple bleed effects.
• Healing Grace - removes one bleed effect.
• Passive Stance - removes one bleed effect.

Note: Skills that do not remove a bleed effect include: Purify, Purify Burst, Healing Ray, Healing Touch, Healing Burst, Healing Blast, Douse, Cocoon of Night, Soothing Rain.

Creatures that Have a Bleed Effect Attack

Creatures that have a Bleed Effect attack include:

• Big Cats have a "Claw Rend Attack" that is a form of Rend.
• Clockwork Attack Cats have a "Bleeding" attack from their claws that is a form of Rend.
• Boar have a "Rend" attack inflicted by their tusks.
• Sword wielders can have a rend attack (such as Obsidian Elf Warrior)