Guild Wars 2

Does anyone know which fields take priority over which other fields? I meant to test this out myself, but just haven’t gotten around to it.

For example, I heard that time warp was the lowest priority field. We had an ele lay down a fire field, then a mesmer lay down time warp on top of it. The blasts gave us aoe might instead of chaos armor. Also tested this with a thief’s choking gas. Had an ele lay down a fire (or water) field, then the thief lay down a poison field. Blasts prioritized might (or healing) over weakness. Similarly with a mesmer’s veil (prioritized retal over weakness). Ele’s fire/water fields seem to get equal priority, depending on which one was laid down last.

Does anyone know what the lexical ordering of field priority is? Does it depend on class (i.e. are mesmer light fields and guardian light fields treated the same in terms of priority)? Does the person blasting the field have any influence on which field gets blasted (i.e. party member fields over non-party member fields)?

when there are overlapping fields, the oldest field gets the priority.

wads.5730:

when there are overlapping fields, the oldest field gets the priority.

That doesn’t seem to be the case. If you lay an ele’s fire field on top of an ele’s water field and blast, you get might instead of healing.

mango.9267:

wads.5730:

when there are overlapping fields, the oldest field gets the priority.

That doesn’t seem to be the case. If you lay an ele’s fire field on top of an ele’s water field and blast, you get might instead of healing.

I went in game to see if I could reproduce this with a friend. Surprisingly, out of my 1 and his 5+ blast finishers, we got one to give might (Eruption). We’ve tried this several times, and it seems to only occur if the blast goes off at the exact time the fire field goes down over the water field. If too fast/too slow, they’re all area healing. This was done using staff and Earth 2 -> Water 5 -> Fire 2.

Edit: Also managed to blast another ele’s fire field doing that same rotation using my arcane wave, so it isn’t just eruption.

Keep in mind when testing that blast order may be affected by party priority, i.e. it depends on whether a field was laid down by a party member of someone who blasted it or not.

lept.4692:

mango.9267:

wads.5730:

when there are overlapping fields, the oldest field gets the priority.

That doesn’t seem to be the case. If you lay an ele’s fire field on top of an ele’s water field and blast, you get might instead of healing.

I went in game to see if I could reproduce this with a friend. Surprisingly, out of my 1 and his 5+ blast finishers, we got one to give might (Eruption). We’ve tried this several times, and it seems to only occur if the blast goes off at the exact time the fire field goes down over the water field. If too fast/too slow, they’re all area healing. This was done using staff and Earth 2 -> Water 5 -> Fire 2.

Edit: Also managed to blast another ele’s fire field doing that same rotation using my arcane wave, so it isn’t just eruption.

Interesting. Our set up was one staff ele who laid the fields and me (the thief) using cluster bomb. We got might consistently (or so I would like to believe?), but I’ll have to go back and test this more thoroughly.

P.S. did you try the reverse order? Place a water on top of a fire and blast to see what happens.

Pichichi.1975:

Keep in mind when testing that blast order may be affected by party priority, i.e. it depends on whether a field was laid down by a party member of someone who blasted it or not.

Right, that’s why I asked if anyone knew whether or not party affected blasts. I’ll test this out tomorrow if no one has any definitive response.

mango.9267:

lept.4692:

mango.9267:

wads.5730:

when there are overlapping fields, the oldest field gets the priority.

That doesn’t seem to be the case. If you lay an ele’s fire field on top of an ele’s water field and blast, you get might instead of healing.

I went in game to see if I could reproduce this with a friend. Surprisingly, out of my 1 and his 5+ blast finishers, we got one to give might (Eruption). We’ve tried this several times, and it seems to only occur if the blast goes off at the exact time the fire field goes down over the water field. If too fast/too slow, they’re all area healing. This was done using staff and Earth 2 -> Water 5 -> Fire 2.

Edit: Also managed to blast another ele’s fire field doing that same rotation using my arcane wave, so it isn’t just eruption.

Interesting. Our set up was one staff ele who laid the fields and me (the thief) using cluster bomb. We got might consistently (or so I would like to believe?), but I’ll have to go back and test this more thoroughly.

P.S. did you try the reverse order? Place a water on top of a fire and blast to see what happens.

We just tried the reverse using Earth 2 -> Fire 2 -> Water 3 and got healing if timed correctly. Did this both in and out of party, but it was only the two of us.

Edit for clarity: Ele #1 did Earth → Fire, and Ele #2 put the water field on top.

I just tested party priority, and there does seem to be some party priority?

Two staff ele’s, one in my party, one not. Party member laid his field on top, and my blasts prioritized his. Tried when not in party and it seemed to prioritize oldest unless blasted right when the field was laid down?

Can anyone else confirm this?