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 (some boss Liches and mini-boss Liches are susceptible to bleed effects).
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, 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" attack that is a form of Rend.
- Clockwork Attack Cats have a "Bleeding" attack that is a form of Rend.
- Boar have a Rend attack fro their tusks.
- Sword wielders can have a rend attack (such as Obsidian Elf Warrior)