Guild Wars 2

Soooo, I am stuck at 976 kill combos (need 1000 for achievement) and I can’t get the number up anymore. My boyfriend and I sat together today and tried different combinations between us. I was on my engi and he on his thief. Couldn’t make it work! Now I don’t know how I got up to 976 in the first place…

Can somebody clear up for me what exactly you need to do to get a successful kill combo?

• Does the combo have to happen at the exact same time as the killing blow?
• Does the count go up for both people involved in the combo, or only the one with the combo finisher?
• Is any combination of a combo field and a combo finisher valid for this?

I know that certain combos only trigger 20% of the time, but we created quite a few successful combinations (as per the text flashing up on my screen), even when we tried to time it so the combo would happen on the finishing blow only.

There’s this: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Achvmnt-Teamwork-Gets-It-Done-No-credit, but I wanted to check whether we’re doing it right before I post in there.

I remember last time there was a daily achievement for making a combo and it wss ridiculously difficult. The combo has to be a finishing blow and tbh I don’t know what else could have triggered it. What I did is to run dungeons with my ele and do a lot of self combo beside team combo. I got mine before I even care about it.

I tried again today with a different friend (he was on a ranger) and we tried all possible combinations we could think of. In a low level zone, quite a few of them were killing blows. My count didn’t go up a single point.

But you know what does make my count go up? Boss fights. So I can only assume that it does not have to be the killing blow at all, but rather that only a few combinations work, and the ones I could reproduce between engi/thief and engi/ranger aren’t among them…

wvw zerg battles is a good place to get this. lay a field between the 2 zergs that arrows pass through. 30 combos in 2 seconds.
9 months of playing and I have yet to actually notice a combo, but I know they do exist.

I’ve made mine using ranger flame trap with trait that it were ground targeted and bow on AC mostly….

Here’s a great link that shows all the combos.
Pick a profession on each side and you get a drop down showing the field, the finisher and the resulting combo.

http://mastodonte.fr/outils/tool-combo#en

Just to make sure, you are laying the field first then blasting the finisher through it?

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

Hmm got this done ages ago just from playing a staff ele.

I enjoy the title. http://www.spike.com/video-clips/3zwmeh/borat-not-joke

Esplen.3940:

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

Thanks for the links to the wiki and other websites, guys… but I don’t think you’ve read my post.

I know how to make combos, and we made a large number of valid, successful combos. It’s just the achievement count doesn’t update.

Are you finishing the combo or dropping a field? I think you have to do the finisher, not him.

For the combo to ‘trigger’ it does not need to be a killing blow …

I don’t know what eng’s have for combo finishers, but I got this ages ago on my ranger. Lay a fire trap, trap triggers, shoot arrows through the field. Even with a 20% chance, you get a lot of combos.

Party with classes that lay down fields. Ele’s are good for this.

Did you try projectiles on Necromancer’s wells?

Esplen.3940:

Are you finishing the combo or dropping a field? I think you have to do the finisher, not him.

I tried both, with various skills each.

bri.2359:

I don’t know what eng’s have for combo finishers, but I got this ages ago on my ranger. Lay a fire trap, trap triggers, shoot arrows through the field. Even with a 20% chance, you get a lot of combos.

Party with classes that lay down fields. Ele’s are good for this.

Between rifle #1, jump shot, that elixir gun #4 acid shot, and various underwater skills, I tried projectile finishers, blast finishers and leap finishers…

For fields, I have light field on the elixir gun’s super elixir (#4), and water fields from healing turrets.

Azraeel.1238:

Did you try projectiles on Necromancer’s wells?

No, I only paired up with a Thief, an Elementalist and a Ranger for this.

Pixelpumpkin.4608:

Between rifle #1, jump shot, that elixir gun #4 acid shot, and various underwater skills, I tried projectile finishers, blast finishers and leap finishers…

For fields, I have light field on the elixir gun’s super elixir (#4), and water fields from healing turrets.

Ah, I think I see the problem here.

You need to check the tool tips on your skills for the ones that are specifically combo finishers. These are the only ones that work for the achievement.

My suggestion, have your ele, in fire attunment, lay down a fire field. Stand behind it and fire through the field using your projectile combo finishers

Edit;
You can use melee combo finishers as well. Just make sure you are standing in a field (fire, water, etc.) while bashing away.

Another edit:
Just to add, there is usually an audio clue when you finish a combo attack. On my human ranger, I get “That was impressive” when this happens, not all the time, mind, but enough to let me know the combo is working.

bri.2359:

Pixelpumpkin.4608:

Between rifle #1, jump shot, that elixir gun #4 acid shot, and various underwater skills, I tried projectile finishers, blast finishers and leap finishers…

Ah, I think I see the problem here.

You need to check the tool tips on your skills for the ones that are specifically combo finishers. These are the only ones that work for the achievement.

All the skills I listed are combo finishers. And, as I said before, I have successfully completed many, many combos this way. I get the message on screen confirming the effect (for example Area Retaliation, Area Might, etc.), I can see the effect on the screen (in case of Fire Armor, Chaos Armor, etc.) and in some cases my character says the sentence. The combos work. They just don’t count towards the achievement, i.e. the achievement count doesn’t go up. I don’t know, I’ve explained that several times already.

More detailed info on the skills I used:

• Rifle – Hip Shot – Combo Finisher: Physical Projectile (20% chance)
• Rifle – Jump Shot – Combo Finisher: Leap
• Elixir Gun – Acid Bomb – Combo Finisher: Blast

I appreciate that you’re trying to help, but… I think my problems with this achievement are beyond not understanding how combos work. I am now convinced that it is simply bugged, and many successful combos simply don’t count towards the achievement (as stated in the bug report thread (not mine) that I linked to in the original post).

Reading your posts, i get the impression, its bugged for you.

You might try and send a bugreport ingame. I had a problem with my mailbox-full hint not counting, after i send a bugreport it was acknowledged the next day i logged in

Other than that you might be REALLY unlucky with hip Shot, but jump shot should be 100%…

My only advices besides the bugreport would be to use some of the 100% combofinishers engie has in utilities (i think for example hinden pistol or personal ram are some, not sure though) and throw out lots of fields. Another thing you might try is playing a bit in a group in wvw, i finished the achievement really fast there (lots of fields and players to trigger it).

Good luck

Bil.6354:

Reading your posts, i get the impression, its bugged for you.

Me too

Bil.6354:

You might try and send a bugreport ingame. I had a problem with my mailbox-full hint not counting, after i send a bugreport it was acknowledged the next day i logged in

I sent a bug report in game a few days ago, but didn’t hear back from them so far…

I mean, I’m almost at 1000 anyway, so if I just throw out light field in random boss fights, I’ll get it sooner or later, probably sooner. I just wish someone at ANet’s would look into it, not for my achievement, but because I assume it’s bugged for other players as well.

I got the achievement ages ago while my husband and I were leveling our mains- I was on mesmer and he was on ranger.
Good luck with the bug report because it does sound like that is what the problem is for you