Guild Wars 2

I have no idea how to efficiently and forcibly make a combo happen.

I suppose I’ll need to learn how to do that before I go stalking people out in the open world trying to make 10 happen near someone and hope they press the right things afterwards within the next 2 hours.

You do a combo finisher inside a combo field. Simple as.

Awesome.6120:

You do a combo finisher inside a combo field. Simple as.

inside or through a combo field*

Look through your attack skills (weapon skills and utilities that do damage). Some will have ‘combo field’ or ‘combo finisher’ as one of the effects.

You do a combo by laying down a field and then activating a finisher in or through it.

For practice you can even do some combos yourself. For example a ranger with a torch or Flame Trap can use Bonfire/Flame Trap to lay down a Combo Field: Fire and then fire arrows through it (Combo Finisher: Physical Projectile) to cause burning (I think) on enemies who are hit by those arrows.

Check the ‘Teamwork Gets It Done’ achievement on the Community tab – chances are you’ve done at least some combos before now without even knowing it.

I’m an Elementalist, can I make a combo field? Is there a class or two that specialize in making fields and I need to go find one to hang out with?

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Table_of_elementalist_combo_skills

You are that specialized class!

Awesome.6120:

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Table_of_elementalist_combo_skills

You are that specialized class!

Heh…ok thanks, that’s actually helpful. I’m staff, so I have a few things there that can start it, and I can stone in someone else’s field.

Now I gotta go find some someone else’s.

Every class can do both combo fields and combo finishers, although some will have more of one than the other.

(As a general rule AoE skills are fields, attack skills are finishers, but there are exceptions, including skills that are neither.)

As a staff ele, eruption is your primary combo finisher, but because of its slow detonation time you cast it first then switch attunement a to use any of your four combo fields, all offering different effects.

I found someone to help me, and at first we just got a few, but couldn’t figure out what we were doing wrong. We switched to him making the field and me sitting there doing the fight with the finisher (and him timing when to throw the field) and the next 8 went much quicker.

So apparently, I need some field practice.

One of those mechanics that I knew was there, I just never really understood it (though mysteriously finished that old existing achievement a long time ago mostly out of luck).