Bleeds (Game Mechanics)
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Game MechanicsA 'bleed' is a Damage Over Time (DOT) attack. While it applies an initial damage value to a HAM pool, it will also wound a random secondary to that pool while it ticks. A bleed will last until cured by the first-aid ability, teras kasi artist meditation, or its duration runs out. Each form of bleed attack has a base chance (possibly a potency value) of applying the bleed effect. This base chance is checked against the target's bleed resistance to determine the ultimate percentage chance for the effect to land. Bleeds come in two durations, 120 second varieties and 180 second which tick at 20 second intervals. Bleeds cannot be used to kill or incapacitate a target as it will only bring the target down to 1 point of HAM at the least. Bleed TypesThere are 4 types of bleeds attacks in SWG:
Upon hitting a target, these attacks will hit all targets within a certain radius which is probably dependent on the area of effect radius on the weapon used (if the attack is done with a weapon that has an aoe attack). Area of effect bleeds can consist of Multi Pool Bleeds such as the creature attack Open Wounds, or as single target effects from weapons such as the enhanced E-11 carbine, grooved two handed sword, jagged vibroblade, Lithitanium Carbine, and modified republic blaster. Bleed SourcesBleeds have a number of sources including:
Special AttacksBleeds induced from special attacks are based off of the damage done to the target. 20% of the damage dealt to the target will be used to create the pool for size of the bleed tick. Each successive tick's size will be 20% of the initial hit. For players, Bleeds from DIFFERENT special attacks or sources stack. For example health shot 1 will stack with health shot 2. When a bleed effect from one special is attempted again, a check is made to see if the damage dealt by that special attack will result in a higher tick bleed. If the damage result is higher or matches the current bleed then the new bleed effect will overwrite the current one, resetting the tick timer as well. Npcs are not bound by bleed stacking rules and thus can stack bleeds from the same specials as many times as they wish. Source References
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