Questions about Bleeding

Grim Dawn Gameplay Discussion
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So I read on a Reddit post ( https://www.reddit.com/r/Grimdawn/comments/48vxhg/confused_about_dot_stacking_of_the_same_type_from/ ) that:

  1. Bleeds will stack as long as they came from different skills
    and
  2. Whacking an enemy with one bleed skill apparently resets all currently active bleed timers back to full.

1 I can believe, but I’m gonna ask here about whether 2 is true. Is it?

Also, if bleeds from different skills do indeed stack - what counts as a different skill? Will the bleeding bonus damage from the Fox constellation simply add on to any skills/default attacks being used? Does Rend from Huntress count as its own skill for the purposes of bleed stacking? How high can you stack bleeds? Could a Warder with Devouring Swarm, Feral Hunger, Blade Arc, Savagery, Upheaval and the Rend proc stack 6 different bleed timers on an enemy at once, and then just keep resetting them all with timely whacks of Savagery?

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  1. Constellations such as Huntress which cast their own skill I believe is considered a different source. But a different source of damage is just that - hitting them with something else except for the aforementioned attack.

Eg. Continuous Blade Arc swings will not do much for Bleed damage.
One Blade Arc Swing which procs Rend followed by Devouring Swarm followed by Cadence (assuming you took fighting form) will stack the bleed damage.

  1. AFAIK this is not the case. If you take the above example and insert a 2nd Blade Arc after Devouring Swarm, the stronger source will be applied not overridden.

It’s kinda hard to explain so maybe another forum peep can explain it better. Having said that, if you hit an enemy with the same bleed source twice it does reset the timer and re-apply the initial bleed etc.

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Just here to confirm what Duck said pretty much :stuck_out_tongue:

Using a bleed on an enemy only resets the timer for that specific ability or the % wd bleed. Bleed damage on fox is only applied by % wd and you can only have one bleed from % wd, well two if you dual wield. Each attack/skill with % wd won’t add on to it as that would be broken. The highest damage % wd bleed applied will always override the others

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Are you sure about that? It has been awhile but when I was testing with poison I was almost positive that DW got the same stacks as one hand + shield with identical weapons.