@noxious81 The stinger hive microdrones explode on enemies, apply explosive damage and bleed. This is why they escape from hive radius as quickly as they can, and that's why it can wipe a spawn easily.
But there are another bleed sources like sadist, ongoing directive etc. When skill tier not counts, base duration is 6 second (scales up with status effect attributes and down by enemy HZP), but they only suffer some minor DOT and nothing change in their behavior. Basically the status effect target is to manipulate enemy behavior, which is true except the bleed. That's why I miss this part of effect. Without HZP, on a player, bleed can be very annoying, and nearly sure change the player's gameplay/behavior during the effect.

@dean-377 It says "base damage", and for other is a "base armor", so they might think of "lvl40 weapon base damage". In this case, this is a standalone multiplicative element, and apply first before any WD (from cores, etc) calculated, and increase your total weapon damage output exactly by 10%. 10% not a big amount, but if you already have a good build, that 10% will sensible, especially in full group: groupscale is strong a bit, results in full group acceptable (not really easy), but solo is too easy on same difficulty.

The bleed effect is a very powerful effect agains players (especially in PvP, but in PvE too), the only thing I miss is the effect impact on NPCs.

All other status effect have some impact on NPCs behavior:

• Confuse slow down enemies and they fully stop shooting
• Burn is same, slow them down and they cannot shoot
• Blind is same to previous ones. Only legendary chungas can blindfire while blinded.
• Napalm (with DOT) and foam lock them to ground, and they can shoot only in a small angle
• Distrupt stagger NPCs, apply one-time damage on electronics, and robotics/skills stop working normally

Bleed is the only exception, for NPCs it looks like a weak dot tool instead status effect.

There are some possible change which keep the atmosphere and not break any rules. Under bleed effect, NPC would:

• loose accuracy
• stop shooting for a second or two on bleed apply
• avoid more bleeding bullets: higher chance to go/stay in cover instead rushing on players

Is there any chance/planned change to see some changes related to bleed effect impact on NPCs in the future?