Guild Wars 2

Sorry, I like to daydream things that probably will never happen in real life (game). But I have this idea of combining different combo fields to form other combo field. For example, if we cast fire field on top of air field, we will get smoke field. In order for my idea to work, there need to be 4 types of basic elemental field: fire, water, lightning, and earth. For staff eles, we just need to turn unsteady ground into an earth field. Then, it will work as follow:

fire field + water field = ethereal field
fire field + lightning field = smoke field
fire field + earth field = dark field
water field + lightning field = frost field
water field + earth field = mud field? (I am thinking about muddy terrain)
lightning field + earth field = poison field

This way, staff eles can access all kinds of fields like a chemist combining different elements, and become truly “Jack of all trade”. Right now, I don’t think we can get boost from two fields by casting finisher on top of them, so this idea will not make ele weaker. Just put the idea here for fun.

That would be kinda a cool idea. Not sure I agree entirely on the combinations and it would be complicated as all get-out, but it could be really interesting.

I never understood how we’re supposed to be kings of versatility, yet engineers are WAY more versatile than us. They have more unique combo fields, finishers, boons and conditions than us.

This would be amazing if they can be implanted. This will take much work though. Then again, Anet Devs love to do things in lazy way. But I guess we can still dream and keep dreaming….

Aether McLoud.1975:

I never understood how we’re supposed to be kings of versatility, yet engineers are WAY more versatile than us. They have more unique combo fields, finishers, boons and conditions than us.

I agree, but somehow elementalist is still my favorite class. I played D/D before, but after all the nerfs, I decide to try staff (I don’t like S/D play style). I can still play D/D, but whenever I do, I feel crippled because of the RtL nerf. I understand staff is not a very competitive weapon, but I still have lots of fun with it. Before, I think staff is too slow, but now I realize many of these skills are meant for support. But eles really don’t have access to some of the most powerful boons. That is why I daydream about this idea.

As a staff elementalist this kinda sounds cool but some can be a big change to some stuff.

This should
fire field + water field = smoke field

What I kinda think should be a different variation of combo field like having three for combo fields will cause a change?

e.g
e2 + w3 + f2 = Area of Blind? (you know big smoke), i’m sort of thinking gw2 logic and real life logic.

In order to do this they would have to up the duration of some combo fields, I already have a hard time casting a field then switching elements to get to a finisher and having it go fast enough to finish the combo. Most of the time it is just too slow, the field is already gone.

Sounds cool though. I always had this type of thing in mind when I first read about GW2 and the combo system. It didn’t turn out as cool though.

Efaicia.3672:

In order to do this they would have to up the duration of some combo fields, I already have a hard time casting a field then switching elements to get to a finisher and having it go fast enough to finish the combo. Most of the time it is just too slow, the field is already gone.

Sounds cool though. I always had this type of thing in mind when I first read about GW2 and the combo system. It didn’t turn out as cool though.

For staff eles, we have eruption, arcane wave and earth evasive arcana as blast finisher. Eruption is very slow. Yes, it is difficult to lay down 2 fields and then cast eruption. However, you can cast eruption, then lay down two fields and arcane wave. This is very easy to do.