"Crimson Dance" keystone mechanic

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Draegnarrr wrote:

the keystone seems pretty bad to me, i think its only purpose is to make bleed useful for fast attackers (still worse than poison) or melee that only want to facetank, the rest of the time the need to stack up to 6 before you seen any damage increase is going to kill its viability.

I suspect the less bleed damage mod will get tuned down or removed at a later date as currently its just a confusing keystone

I think you are overlooking the fact that most of the enemies where DPS really matters don't move, and the keystone is a very obvious and large DPS increase on them. Sure trash packs that run around require 6 stacks for a bonus, but they'll die long before that point anyway. A stationary or teleporting boss only requires 3 stacks for a 50% bleed DPS increase, and at 8 stacks you are doing 300% more bleed DPS to them than you would have otherwise.

I'm playing around with a sunder build using Haemophilia gloves, I'm applying bleeds mostly for the increase damage I do to them while they are bleeding and for the explosions. The actual DPS from bleeds is rather low, it wasn't my goal to do high bleed damage, but grabbing Crimson Dance basically doubled my total DPS against bosses.

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Little_MessPM wrote:

i want to know, what happens after 8 stacks, if i hit higher damage hit, whould it re apply stack of bleed

You already got an answer. Every hit that applies a bleed applies a stack, only the highest damaging 8 stacks actually do damage though. If you apply a stronger instance of bleed to a target then it replaces a weaker instance in doing damage.

https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Bleed

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Astasia wrote:

You already got an answer. Every hit that applies a bleed applies a stack, only the highest damaging 8 stacks actually do damage though. If you apply a stronger instance of bleed to a target then it replaces a weaker instance in doing damage.

https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Bleed

I love u xD

somehow i dont get wiki's explanations.. lack of language knowledge mb, so ty for answer!

So what's the consensus.

Is Crimson Dance worth it or not?