New player trying to understand Bleed & Poison.

Hey, I will try and break this down as shortly as possible.

Trying to make a bow wielding amazon huntress specializing in bleed, crit & evade.

I watched some vids explaining how bleed is calculated in the game, makes sense. I however am struggling to find any bow abilities that are not some type of element based I just want raw phys dmg... but as that did not seem like an option figured next best thing is go poison and that way I have poisonburst arrow applying poison and as it has lacerate on it it will apply bleed so I would get double dots, dot from poison and dot from bleed. But does not seem to work that way haha.

So trying to figure out how this works, does poison just cancel out the bleed or what? and am I basically unable to do a bleed bow build as all their abilities are poison, ice, electric or fire? (I know I can use basic attack but that seems like it would be crap dmg compared to using an ability) So if I do bow do I just need to give up on the bleed dream and go poison? or what?

My end idea of the build is I want to use them to kill bosses and I figured being fast, evasive and hitting with bleeds would be perfect for end game boss killing but maybe I am wrong.

To answer your question because poisonburst is coded to not hit the enemy, only poison as if hitting, you cannot get a bleed proc from it.

I too wanted to make some cool dot builds, but in the end, they are most utility for clear and not Big Damage (tm)

If you to slay bosses with DoT your only choice is:

tangletongue (2x crit multi)
super high crit multi (500+)
rings/gloves with craplods of added elemental dmg (they are in multiple divines)
blood mage blood barbs to include the ele damage (usually makes bleed 2x,3x)

you have to use rake because rake is unusual:

2x bleed dmg
2x damage if distance travelled

then bloodhunt, because it will take all that massive bleed dmg and multiplying it yet again by an insane crit multi.

Great info thx man, I feel dumb for not seeing that posionburst did not actually hit which is why it was not bleeding, makes sense though thanks.

Good to know on the boss kill stuff, I don't know why but just elemental explosion stuff just seems so boring to me maybe because it is what everyone is doing and so want to do something more original.

I will mull it over see if I can find any other way to build it that sounds fun, thx again man.

Just to clearify.

You definetely can slay bosses with poison, it just takes longer.

But since you dont have to travel half the tree, you can also get alot of nodes that make you very tanky, if you are no glasscannon, longer boss fights are no issue.

Its not meta, not overpowered, but all content is doable.

T4 Xesht for example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dq2gDrv-roI

Yeah right now my main is a lvl 89 Smith Warrior and I love it, not using any guide just doing my own off meta build and clearing T15 maps with ease. I just HATE doing the trial of sekhamas on him and most Pinnacle bosses still one shot me with their big slam so if I miss roll just once it is over... which feels really crappy considering my entire build is built around being tanky... (really hoping they change armor somehow to actually do something against those big hits) so am trying to build an alt thats sole purpose is just killing pinnacle bosses and running the trials without making me want to pull my hair out. I know I can go lightning spear but building a solved thing that 60% of the community is running just does not hold any interest for me. And I think bows are cool haha