So for example. smoke screen and static. The smoke screen area only covers some area of the static. I can’t blast them together? So I guess the common strat is to drop the static field at the top of shadow refuge and blast them to get both stealth and swiftness, right?
So for example. smoke screen and static. The smoke screen area only covers some area of the static. I can’t blast them together? So I guess the common strat is to drop the static field at the top of shadow refuge and blast them to get both stealth and swiftness, right?
Enko already replied correctly, read pls:
Nope. First field down is the one that is used.
And for having both, the common strat in PUGs is to blast swiftness first and then stealth afterwards due to obvious reasons.
You can drop 2 fields next to eachother and split the blasts up between them. For example on the right you’ll have smoke, blasted by the thief and an ele for 5 stacks, Fire blasted by an Ele, warrrior and Guard/mesmer on the left.
You can’t blast together.
While the rule is “first field down” it’s not always consistent and not something you should count on because of Anets fickle coding.
While the rule is “first field down” it’s not always consistent and not something you should count on because of Anets fickle coding.
its pretty consistent.
there are also the rules: how high is the combo field, wich field is touched first by the finisher and in wich high does the finisher goes off.
example: guard lays first down a firefield and a thief lays down a smokescreen inside it.
if the thief blasts with bow 2 inside the smokescreen his projectile will first touch the smokefield and so he stacks invis.
would an ele blast right in this field like the thief with arcane wave, he would blast the firefield.
same with projectile finishers (even when they don’t matter so much). if a small field is lay down first and a bigger field is arround it and the projectile goes through both fields the bigger one will trigger since the projectile touched it first.
all just go by the rule: first comes first served and don’t look at the other rules and then they wonder why its not working. :S
Yeah, I don’t use staff either, but I know when I see a pug drop a symbol from it on top of a smokefield just don’t bother blasting because chances are it’ll give retal instead of stealth, just wait it out and try again and hope the guard isn’t dumb enough to do it twice.
So for example. smoke screen and static. The smoke screen area only covers some area of the static. I can’t blast them together? So I guess the common strat is to drop the static field at the top of shadow refuge and blast them to get both stealth and swiftness, right?
Enko already replied correctly, read pls:
Nope. First field down is the one that is used.
And for having both, the common strat in PUGs is to blast swiftness first and then stealth afterwards due to obvious reasons.
I read it already obviously. But I think I’ve seen people blasting for stealth and swiftness together.
Well.. I think my wording is unclear. I mean blasting with a team, not alone. So jerus answered my question. I know you can’t blast multiple field with a single blast.
So I guess the common strat is to drop the static field at the top of shadow refuge and blast them to get both stealth and swiftness, right?
The reason this works is because shadow refuge is not a smoke field so it does not give stealth on blast. It pulses stealth just from standing inside the field. If you placed SR first and blasted you would give AoE blind and not recieve any swiftness from the static field.
, but I know when I see a pug drop a symbol from it on top of a smokefield just don’t bother blasting because chances are it’ll give retal instead of stealth, just wait it out and try again and hope the guard isn’t dumb enough to do it twice.