Hematic Focus

Gain fury when you inflict bleeding on an enemy. Fury gives an increased critical-strike chance. — In-game description

Hematic Focus

Specialization

Firearms (trait list)

Tier

Master

Type

Minor

Training cost

4 Hero points

Game link

API

API

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Hematic Focus

Gain fury when you inflict bleeding on an enemy. Fury gives an increased critical-strike chance.

 Fury (8s): +25% Critical Chance

 Fury (4s): +20% Critical Chance

 Critical Chance Increase: 15%

 Critical Chance Increase: 10%

 Critical Chance Increase: 5%

— In-game description

Related skills

Weapon skills that are improved by this trait

•   Fragmentation Shot — Pistol
•   Refraction Cutter — Sword
•   Blunderbuss — Rifle
•   Puncturing Jab — Spear
•   Rending Strike — Spear
•   Amplifying Slice — Spear
•   Capture Line — Harpoon gun
•   Refraction Cutter Blade — Sword
•   Refraction Cutter — Sword

Bundle skills that are improved by this trait

•   Tranquilizer Dart — Elixir Gun
•   Shrapnel Grenade — Grenade Kit
•   Shrapnel Grenade — Grenade Kit
•   Box of Nails — Tool Kit
•   Box of Piranhas — Tool Kit

Transform skills that are improved by this trait

•   Withering Plague — Elixir X (underwater)

Utility skills that are improved by this trait

•   Elixir B — Elixir
•   Automatic Fire
•   Hard Light Arena — Exceed
•   Laser Disk — Exceed

Elite skills that are improved by this trait

•   Flux State — Stance

Profession mechanic skills that are improved by this trait

•   Toss Elixir B — Elixir, Tool belt
•   Booby Trap — Tool belt
•   Blade Burst — Tool belt
•   Rolling Smash — Tool belt, Mech Command
•   Barrier Burst — Tool belt, Mech Command
•   Offensive Protocol: Obliterate — Morph

Trait skills that are improved by this trait

•   Controlled Analysis — Lock On
•   Drop Gunk — Streamlined Kits
•   Invisible Analysis — Lock On
•   Lesser Elixir B — Hidden Flask

Related traits

Traits that improve this trait

Firearms

• No Scope — Critical hits on foes within the range threshold have a chance to grant fury. Fury grants you ferocity.

Alchemy

• Compounding Chemicals — Heal yourself when you grant yourself a boon. Remove a condition from yourself when you use an elixir skill. Gain increased concentration.

Traits that are improved by this trait

Explosives

• Short Fuse — Gain fury when you hit a foe with an Explosion.
• Shrapnel — Explosions have a chance to cripple and cause bleeding on hit.

Firearms

• Serrated Steel — Critical hits have a chance to cause bleeding. Bleeding you inflict gains increased duration.
• No Scope — Critical hits on foes within the range threshold have a chance to grant fury. Fury grants you ferocity.

Inventions

• Experimental Turrets — Turret. Turrets create a reflective barrier when built and grant boons to allies around them on a regular interval.

Alchemy

• Boiling Point — Gain fury when you gain might at or above the threshold.
• HGH — Elixirs gain increased durations, and grant might.

Scrapper

• Kinetic Accelerators — Grant boons to nearby allies when you successfully combo a field with a blast, leap, or whirl finisher. Your function gyro is now a blast finisher. Whirl finishers can only trigger this trait once per interval.

Mechanist

• Mech Arms: Single-Edge Cutters — Unlocks the Mech Command skill Rolling Smash. Your mech's attacks apply bleeding. This attack's effect may only affect a certain target once per interval.

Amalgam

• New Genes — Morph skills grants boons to allies. Grant an additional boon based on which morph skill was used.

Version history

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch	Changes
January 13, 2026	Reduced the critical-strike-chance increase from 10% to 5% in WvW only.
June 24, 2025	This trait has been reworked. Gain fury when you inflict bleeding on an enemy. Fury has increased effectiveness.
June 28, 2022	Critical chance bonus increased from 10% to 15% in PvE only.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Hematic Focus has been added to the game.