bleeding skills in blade tree useless ?

[Buurt]

I always kinda felt like half of the blade skill tree is useless, all those bleeding skills and healing when applying bleeding seems so useless because the enemies even on very hard are dying 1 or 2 shot with blade so there is close to never bleeding because enemies drop dead before bleeding, do I miss something or can I skip half of the blade bleeding skills for a katana character

[Duga]

Not sure, i play on very hard. First playthrough was finished with a knife basically, and i remember i hit last boss a few times ran away, and he bled out. Not sure if it was changed meanwhile. But yeah, for smaller mobs (90% of the game) you one shot them anyway.

[Dracvlad]

As Duga said it has an impact on the bosses, but in my latest play through I did not bother to apply any of the bleeding perks. The other thing you might want to think about however are the throwing knives, that would be useful in terms of that if you don't instantly kill them with a knife to the head.

[King of Evil]

There's a knife that applies bleeding when you poison, & a cool perk that makes all knives apply poison 100%. So you can run around, knife everyone once, then camo, run away & watch the suffering.

[Invictus]

I went for Monowire and skipped bleeding completely.

Athletics + other blade perks + cold blood.

Tech 18 is good for legendary mods (almost perma sandevistan).

[Rhapsody]

They are mostly useless unless you wish to kill enemies slowly for no additional benefit.

[5ean5ean]

Bleeding for damage sucks but Crimson Dance and Bloodlust are a good combo for bosses or if you dont have enough points for Deathbolt.

[Tanoomba]

Is bleeding fatal? Would it ruin missions where you're not supposed to kill anyone?

[Rhapsody]

Originally posted by Tanoomba:

Is bleeding fatal? Would it ruin missions where you're not supposed to kill anyone?

Surprisingly enough, it's not, unless they changed that while I wasn't looking. :)

[Nite69]

Yea everything is useless in reflex thats why I put it to 3, the game is so easy even on very hard, several other ways to boost damage of AR/Pistol/Blade anyway

[Buurt]

Originally posted by Nite69:

Yea everything is useless in reflex thats why I put it to 3, the game is so easy even on very hard, several other ways to boost damage of AR/Pistol/Blade anyway

I mean you can kinda say that to close to all trees because most weapons are still good without skills, reflex is still great for crit change and overall handgun/blade/assault weapon builds.

you also dont need body for a good shotgun build in that regard so the everything is useless is kinda for all bigger weapons because there are all good on each own