Guild Wars 2

I read a number of play “tips” on different forums about triggering skills before the animation of a previous skill is complete to accomplish combo chains. It seems particularly common with Thieves (which I play).

At first, the tactic seems gamey and sketchy, to me. Taking advantage of flaws in the game code timing to either avoid a consequence or short-cut to another, next skill.

However, many things in the game are intended to be all about timing and pressing the button at the right time.

Before I go trying to learn & practice these combos, what is the official Arena Net answer? Are players expected to watch the details of skill animations and benefit from triggering skills before the animation of a previous has completed? Or is this practice gamey, near-cheating and expected to be corrected in future releases?

No one knows?

Here is some fun text because the dumb forum says Message Body length must at least be 15.

I don’t know if it still works since I don’t run it anymore but engineer supply drop used to stun but reset on a very short cool down if you dodged in the middle of it.

If it feels cheesy like my above example just don’t use it.