Guild Wars 2

So yea, hi! Just started playing GW2 and it’s my first MMORPG so I’m not to well informed. My question thou is about using combos in the lower levels. I managed to pull off a combo yesterday but I don’t even know how. Could anybody out there tell me a little about the combo “system” and how to pull some of these off while in level 6-7 seeing as I was at lvl 6 when i randomly managed to combo

Any form of tip or help would be great!

first tip, sometimes it takes a while for someone to see your post.

secondly: A combo is performed by combining the actions of two skills in order to obtain an additional and/or greater effect. It requires that a combo field is interacted with by a combo finisher.

combo fields usually fall into two types, aoe fields and walls…

combo finishers have several types, projectiles, leaps and bursts…

if your skill falls into either of these categories it will be noted in that skills tool tip.

finishers that originate from, finish in, or pass through a combo field will apply the secondary effect.

the type of effect is determined by the field, while how that effect is applied is determined by the finisher

example:
player a puts down a aoe field with the poision combo effect.
player b shoots a projectile through the field at an enemy on the other side.
the Poision combo effect will be applied to the enemy

If you read your skills you’ll see that some of them say “Combo field” and “Combo finisher”. So what happens is that one player puts down a combo field, and another player uses a combo finisher on that field.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Combo

The link above gives some examples. The first one (Dark field + Blast finisher) will do a “Area blindness” effect, which means enemies in the area will miss their next attack. Pretty cool, uh?

As a Mesmer you have a lot of Ethereal combo fields, so if you for example set a Chaos Storm, you can then use Magic Bullet for a Projectile finisher, which will Confusion on your target. You can actually do this by yourself, if there aren’t any other players around.

Check the link for more ideas.

There are skills that lay down certain types of ‘combo fields’ and other skills perform a type of ‘combo finisher’ as part of their function.

This GW2 wiki page can tell you everything you need to know.

Ahaaa think I got it now, and here I was thinking that combo’s only worked through using my own skills while most are achieved by doing them with others. Thanks a whole lot!
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