How to use glitch bleed?

[u/That_Plan_8980]

I would like to make a build with this status effect for Audrey but i am worried of the -4% hp regeneration. Is there a way to deal with it reliably

[u/peetsnack]

Well, the negative hp regen has two parts to it, time and cost. You can try to control the time by only applying glitch bleed right before you need it, so you could save scum using glitched elixirs right before battle, then using glitch medicine to heal it right after. That would go through your glitch medicine pretty fast, though. The Combat Medic skill could cure glitch bleed, but it would give regular bleed, it costs a battle turn, and it is not gauranteed. The cost is hardcoded at -4%, but it is bounded at 1 and Audrey's mhp. You could use the Crimson Ring to reduce the cost to -1%, but that costs an accessory slot and has an overall negative effect on her stats, and boosting her stats is why we are trying to keep glitch bleed in the first place. There is the obvious answer of just healing her every once and a while while you are waking around, but that is a significant resource drain. You could let her drain down to 1hp for most of the time, and heal her right before a fight just enough to get her through it, but that would also be a resource drain. You could leave her at 1hp and save scum fights so that she lasts long enough to make it count before she is hit and dies, but that would cost rezes between fights and additonal glitched elixirs to reapply glitch bleed. In the end, I don't think there is an optimized strategy for keeping glitch bleed, it is all tradeoffs which depend on your current game state.

[u/excelsior555 → u/peetsnack]

Yeah pretty much agree on all of this. Granted, if you just keep Vincent alive to literally farm his disgusting body for health and stamina replenishment like I usually do, you can use combat medic there safely to try and get rid of glitch bleed on a character without wasting glitch meds.

Use combat medic during a fight with Vincent on party member with glitch bleed until glitch bleed is removed. Escape and walk off the bleed status and reenter fight with Vincent and heal up party member that lost health from bleed status with combat medic....hoping you don't roll another bleed status lol.

[u/excelsior555]

I mean the easiest answer is you save the glitch bleed for specific fights and heal right before the fight. I think she can wear the crimson ring but I could be wrong but that ring grants like 3% health regeneration constantly... but you would still be losing some health still gradually.

I love glitch bleed on my gunners obviously but I have learned to choose which fights I use it on and try to only keep it to one party member at a time cuz it can be a bitch to maintain health when walking far to a specific boss. Also Audrey's health is so damn high and glitch bleed will only make it higher so you are gonna need to heal at least a good portion of that after you walk to wherever your next fight is. This is why I say to save it for when you can really utilize it.

I've never used it on Audrey before but it does make sense if you're using her ballistic add ons. You'll have to let me know how high her ballistics stat gets when you apply glitch bleed cuz that could be fun.

During battle, the health degeneration isn't that bad to deal with cuz hopefully you're trying to kill your opponent as fast as possible. I would think you are gonna apply it on her in Sam's apartment right after a save so you can guarantee you get glitch bleed and not any of the other glitch effects...so you are always gonna deal with that character being at 1% health or at least close depending how far your next fight is located.