Guild Wars 2

In hectic blobs of players.
People trolling in wvw by putting the ‘wrong’ field down when the group is trying to attack might or water heal.
Less useful fields generated on auto attacks.

Etc.

Do we need a way to pick and choose which combo fields to prioritize? It’s becoming increasingly annoying to compete with other players putting the wrong fields down in the wrong places.

I’d be happy enough if…

1. Self’s combo field is always highest priority on overlap.
2. Party members’ fields are second highest priority on overlap.
3. Everyone else is of third priority.

Then within these three broad classes, the first field to activate will have priority over the later ones, etc.

As a guardian, I am tired of ny hammer symbol being down so often that I can’t combo anything else.

Maybe we could decide individually which field take priority and set it in our options.
You could chose fire > water > x >y and someone else could chose light > dark > z if they prefer it this way. I don’t know if this would be easy to implement but I would find it nice.

That would be a nice way to add personalised tactics to a group.

The only way they’re going to make everyone happy is if they either let you specifically select what order you want (aka: my fire, my water, ally fire, my etc, ally etc) or allow your combo finisher to apply to all available fields.

My might+fury combo gets replaced by aoe retaliation… too much.

Fire and water fields are not the only useful fields. This is a dumb mindset, espsecially in WvW, where ethereal fields are king due to how effective Confusion is. Have you ever seen how fast a group of players drops when they not only have 20+ stacks of Confusion on them, but are surrounded by Chaos Armor warriors?

This kind of thinking that people are always trying to “troll” when they are just using their normal skills and trying to aid the group is wrong. Its symbolic of the kind of gameplay that people suffer in PvE with zerkerism.

The only issue here is that only one field combos, not all of them, and that is most likely due to server limitations just like conditions and everything else…

I always thought blast would work on all of them so I would always have protection up.

Thanks,, didnt know this.

Sabyne.6329:

Maybe we could decide individually which field take priority and set it in our options.
You could chose fire > water > x >y and someone else could chose light > dark > z if they prefer it this way. I don’t know if this would be easy to implement but I would find it nice.

This would be the best option, if it is possible.

Hannelore.8153:

Fire and water fields are not the only useful fields. This is a dumb mindset, espsecially in WvW, where ethereal fields are king due to how effective Confusion is. Have you ever seen how fast a group of players drops when they not only have 20+ stacks of Confusion on them, but are surrounded by Chaos Armor warriors?

This kind of thinking that people are always trying to “troll” when they are just using their normal skills and trying to aid the group is wrong. Its symbolic of the kind of gameplay that people suffer in PvE with zerkerism.

The only issue here is that only one field combos, not all of them, and that is most likely due to server limitations just like conditions and everything else…

i get what you mean, but the most complaints are probably coming from light fields, which simply give area retaliation, hardly better than area might or area heal.