# Bleed

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![]()### Effect

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Once the Bleed meter is full, the target's HP will be damaged by 200. It will also reduce the maximum stamina of the target to 75% for 5 to 10 seconds.

### Enemy Causes of Bleed

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<table><tr><th>Cause of Bleed</th><th>Location</th></tr><tr><td>Dark Stalker</td><td>No-man's Wharf</td></tr><tr><td>Stray Dog</td><td>No-man's Wharf  
The Lost Bastille  
Frozen Eleum Loyce</td></tr><tr><td>Artificial Undead</td><td>Huntsman's Copse  
Harvest Valley</td></tr><tr><td>Crescent Sickle Phantom</td><td>Earthen Peak</td></tr><tr><td>Alonne Knight</td><td>Iron Keep  
Memory of the Old Iron King</td></tr><tr><td>Alonne Knight Captain</td><td>Iron Keep  
Drangleic Castle  
Memory of the Old Iron King</td></tr><tr><td>Lizardman</td><td>Shrine of Amana</td></tr><tr><td>Ogre</td><td>Things Betwixt  
Shrine of Amana  
Aldia's Keep</td></tr><tr><td>Suspicious Shadow</td><td>No-man's Wharf</td></tr><tr><td>Giant Undead Boar</td><td>Brightstone Cove Tseldora</td></tr><tr><td>Washing Pole Phantom</td><td>Drangleic Castle</td></tr><tr><td>Iron Warrior  
(mace)</td><td>Brume Tower  
Iron Passage</td></tr><tr><td>Prowlers</td><td>Brume Tower</td></tr><tr><td>Spellsword</td><td>Frozen Eleum Loyce</td></tr><tr><td>Ice Rat</td><td>Frozen Eleum Loyce</td></tr><tr><td>Afflicted Graverobber</td><td>Cave of the Dead</td></tr><tr><td>Sir Alonne</td><td>Memory of the Old Iron King</td></tr></table>

### Player Methods of inflicting Bleed

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- Imbuing a weapon with a Bleed Stone.
- Applying Bleeding Serum to a weapon for a temporary Bleed effect.
- Using weapons with a Bleed effect: 
    - Ashen Warrior Sword
    - Bandit's Knife
    - Barbed Club
    - Bewitched Alonne Sword
    - Bound Hand Axe
    - Bound Wooden Shield
    - Chariot Lance
    - Claws
    - Curved Twinblade
    - Eleum Loyce
    - Falchion
    - Flamberge
    - Full Moon Sickle
    - Greatsword of the Forlorn
    - Ice Rapier
    - Ivory King Ultra Greatsword
    - Morning Star
    - Notched Whip
    - Royal Greatsword
    - Scythe of the Forlorn
    - Work Hook
- Using these consumables: 
    - Lacerating Knife
    - Lacerating Arrow

If you intend to wield a weapon that inflicts bleed, it's important to be aware of your Bleed ATK Bonus stat.

**Note:**  
Your Bleed ATK Bonus does NOT affect the total amount of damage the bleed will do; it only increases the amount of bleed buildup you will inflict per hit.

### Increasing Bleed bonus

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Dexterity and Faith increase the Bleed ATK Bonus stat.

Steady Hand McDuff is able to imbue your weapon with bleed with a Bleed Stone after you've given him the Dull Ember.

Shadow Gauntlets and Crest of Blood increase bleed damage on weapons that have either innate bleed or are infused with it:

- Weapons with innate Bleed get 50 points of extra damage.
- Weapons infused with Bleed get 25 points of extra damage.
- Weapons with innate Bleed AND infused with Bleed get 60 points of extra damage.
- These items stack, so wearing both of them and using a Bleed-infused weapon grants 50 points of extra damage.

### Resisting and Avoiding Bleed

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- Increase the Adaptability and Faith stats, which raise Bleed Resist
- Use a Red Leech Troches (increases resistance by 200 points for 90 seconds)
- Cast Perseverance (increases resistance by 150 points for 120 seconds)
- Cast Iron Flesh (increases resistance by 200 points for 25 seconds).
- Equip the Bloodbite Ring (increases resistance by 150/300 points)
- Equip the Ring of Resistance (increases resistance by 120/200 points)
- Equip Yorgh's Spear (increases resistance by 70 points)
- Equip various Bleed-resistant armors
- Block with shields that have high Bleed resist

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