what changed

Syiccal

what changed in the last couple of patches that has turned every stam class to bleeds, please enlighten me

MaxJrFTW

1. Dual wield is better than bow and arguably 2h. Why? Enchantments, passives.
2. Targetting with a bow isn't easy when people are running 3 swifts + speed pots + orc + hurricane.

That's all.

Syiccal

other than swift all those things have always been in the game, I'm just interested as to why bleed has become stam meta all of a sudden

The Uninvited

Heavy armor? That's my guess.

Vandril

Syiccal wrote: »

other than swift all those things have always been in the game, I'm just interested as to why bleed has become stam meta all of a sudden

Because weapon ability DoTs (bleeds) will proc weapon enchantments now.

Imagine using the DW bleed, and every time it ticks, your enchantment also procs for some thousands of damage because you're stacking Infused weapon trait and Torug's Pact. And this works for your secondary bar, too. If you apply a weapon bleed DoT and switch bars, the bleed will still proc the now-inactive bar's weapon enchantment. So imagine having two bleeds up - one from each bar - and having each bleed proc a different weapon enchantment every tick.

It's extremely overpowered.

Or, at least, this is how I understood it.

Biro123

has been for a while

Ragnarock41

2h always sucked.
Bow sucks unless you gank
SnB pressure nerfed heavily

Penetration nerfed and nirn buffed.
And now bleeds proc wpn enchanta but for some reason class abilities won't?(rly zos?)

But most importantly the sheep took 6 months to realize bleeds are this stronk.

Syiccal

.have bleeds always ignored resistance?

Ragnarock41

Syiccal wrote: »

.have bleeds always ignored resistance?

They were changed a long while ago I believe.

MashmalloMan

Bleeds have always been strong due to ignoring resist.

This patch, they are INSANE.

For example.

Front bar 2h with torugs pact, back bar dw master axes. Both infused.

When you swap to your front bar the torugs pact takes effect on both infused enchants and rending slashes will proc the enchants with it's dot every 2 seconds. The enchants have extremely high damage and your rending slash bleed is buffed via the master 2pc. You can run 2 sets on front bar + a monster set.