Duelist's Discipline

Pistol attacks from you and your illusions have a chance to cause bleeding. Interrupting a foe recharges pistol skills. This trait can only reduce recharge on enemies with defiance bars once per interval. — In-game description

Duelist's Discipline

Specialization

Dueling (trait list)

Tier

Adept

Type

Major

Training cost

3 Hero points

Game link

API

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Duelist's Discipline

Pistol attacks from you and your illusions have a chance to cause bleeding. Interrupting a foe recharges pistol skills.
This trait can only reduce recharge on enemies with defiance bars once per interval.

 Bleeding (3s): 66 Damage

 Bleeding (2s): 44 Damage

 Percent Recharged on Interrupt: 25%

 Interval: 3 seconds

— In-game description

Mechanics

•   Phantasmal Duelist — Inflicts ₃ Bleeding on the Mesmer's strike. Followed by ₈ Bleeding from the phantasm.
•   Magic Bullet — Inflicts  Bleeding per target struck.
  • This skill can reduce its own cool down by 50% with good timing against non-defiant targets.

Related traits

Traits that improve this trait

Virtuoso

• Jagged Mind — Blade attacks inflict bleeding on critical hits. A percentage of your condition damage dealt heals you.
• Bloodsong — Bleeding you apply deals increased damage. Stock a blade after applying enough stacks of bleeding to foes.

Traits that are improved by this trait

Chronomancer

• Chronophantasma — The first time a phantasm would become a clone, it instead resummons itself and attacks again. Resummoned phantasms inflict a percentage of the original's damage. (Resummoned phantasms are briefly dazed.)

Version history

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch	Changes
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced bleeding duration from 3 seconds to 2 seconds.
February 08, 2018	Increased bleeding chance to 100%. Decreased bleeding duration from 5 seconds to 3 seconds.
December 12, 2017	Skills, traits, and sigils that have bonus effects when interrupting foes will now activate when used against foes with defiance bars as though they had been interrupted, with a 3-second cooldown.
January 26, 2016	The chance to bleed has been increased from 33% to 50%. Bleed duration has been increased from 5 seconds to 6 seconds.
September 29, 2015	Fixed a bug that prevented this trait from granting a bleeding chance to your Illusionary Duelist. Lowered bleeding stacks applied by this skill from 2 to 1.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Updated this trait to reflect the introduction of the specialization mechanic. This trait has been moved to the Adept tier. Pistol skills recharge 25% of their full recharge when you interrupt a foe. Pistol attacks from you and your illusions have a 33% chance to inflict 2 stacks of bleeding for 5 seconds. No longer increases the range of pistol skills. No longer reduces the cooldown of pistol skills.
January 28, 2013	This trait no longer reduces damage dealt by the Illusionary Duelist.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Duelist's Discipline has been added to the game.