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.

Some creatures have an attack that can inflict a Bleed Effect on the Avatar (e.g. big cats have a claw bleed attack, some sword wielders have a rend bleed effect, etc.).

Bleed Effects do zero damage to almost all Undead.

Avatar Skills that Inflict a Bleed Effect

• Rend
• Sawblade Sweep
• Hamstring
• 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, Douse.