Guild Wars 2

I really miss when this happened. Why does no one else do this any more? I set up fire/lightning fields do one blast myself see one or two thieves with their short bows out doing nothing or a scrapper with a hammer out running at the gate. Is there a reason for this? It really helps to have 25 might/2min of swiftness at the start of a match. This has been going on since HoT, which isn’t surprising, but needs to be amended.

Keep in mind:

• Scrappers and tempests have lightning fields
• Condi revs, eles, engies with bomb kit, some guards, some rangers have access to fire fields
• Anything but mesmer and necro can do a blast at the start. Especially shortbow on thief.

Quality of player has gone down. And a lot of new people do not know some of these subtleties not listed on meta battle./

I think a lot of people don’t bother anymore simply due to Herald. Usually there is at least one in the team, and they just insta-buff everyone. shrug

If I’m running ele, I’ll drop a lightning field for swiftness, but precious few blast it.

I think the prevalence on blast combos has gone down, with engis taking less, warrior WHs not around, and thieves not as used. I use 3 on my druid staff for whatever that single blast is worth…

Another thing to consider is that the majority of builds have their own source of swiftness/movement enhancement runes/traits.

I can’t think of a single build that doesn’t.

Pyriall.1683:

Another thing to consider is that the majority of builds have their own source of swiftness/movement enhancement runes/traits.

I can’t think of a single build that doesn’t.

Any Guardian build including DH without traveler rune set.

Slow as molasses.

i blast fields on mah thief, i love 25 stacks of might and 1.5 min of swiftness

Pyriall.1683:

Another thing to consider is that the majority of builds have their own source of swiftness/movement enhancement runes/traits.

I can’t think of a single build that doesn’t.

As a Necro, I always loved those blasts. It meant that I could save Locust Swarm for building Life force in the first fight (huge) instead of having to use it to make sure that I make it to the fight before it’s over. :/

Pyriall.1683:

Another thing to consider is that the majority of builds have their own source of swiftness/movement enhancement runes/traits.

I can’t think of a single build that doesn’t.

Tempest is very slow. Overload is the only speed boost.

Because at the start of amber, you;d pair up with some of the worst players in game.

Why’re you even surprise?
Season start = new players join and play.

While we are all here I have a question. If two combo fields are on top of each other and I do a blast finisher in the middle how can I know which field will be blasted? So if I put down a water field and a light field and I blast my healing turret inside both of them will I get a blast heal or aoe retaliation?