Guild Wars 2

Just wondering what the community thinks of these skills especially as it pertains to use in a smoke field. When using rocket boots in a smoke field it is actually useful, because the stealth is applied after the rocket boots deal damage, so you don’t get revealed. On the other hand. with acid bomb ( elixir 4) stealth gets applied immediately, so when acid bomb deals damage you are also immediately revealed. Is this just an oversight/bug? Or is it intended? It does seem that the delay of the blast finisher on rocket boots is actually applied to all other fields/combos as well. which makes it a little gimmicky when trying to apply to allies. Anyways, I thought I’d see what everyone thinks first.

Acid Bomb is working as intended, however, I think the way that Rocket Boots interacts with combo fields is likely a bug of some sort; however it’s a very useful, and unique bug that doesn’t really need to be fixed. The actual effected area of blast finishers with Rocket Boots isn’t where you use it from, but rather where you land. In addition you don’t have to stand in a field to activate the blast finisher, the first field you fly through with Rocket Boots active will proc the combination, meaning you can leap into distant fields to gain the effects. This allows Rocket Boots to be a good disengage in combination with Smoke or Water fields, or if allies are too far away, you can launch yourself into them to provide support while also closing the gap on enemies. Play around with it a bit with different combo fields if you want to see what I mean.

If I remember correctly, Acid Bomb is a pulse DoT, so it’s working as it should.

edit – http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Acid_Bomb

Yup.

Acid bomb deals damage every second for several seconds. It would be very difficult to justify keeping that from revealing you.