Guild Wars 2

On my Ranger it´s quite a nice way of boosting my Longbow damage.
Turning on the Torch fire field then switching to Longbow and thus shooting fire arrows.

The same tactics just doesn´t seem work with the Guardian.
Whenever I activate shield´s light field and switch weapons it instantly disappears.

Anybody else managed to get “self-combos” to work with weapon switching?

Shield of Absorption isn’t a persistent combo field, it’s only there while the skill is being channeled. Symbols, consecrations, and wards are our self-combos.

Never heard of this, it sounds like a visual bug. I drop fields and switch weapons for combos all the time without issue.

Have you tried the combo anyway to see if it triggers?

As the previous poster said some of our combo fields are reliant on use having that weapon out and using just that skill. This makes self combo’s more difficult for us but still possible especially with symbols and consecrations.

SoA’s bubble actually stays out a bit longer than the channel. It blocks for about 4s but casts in 2. If you switch immediately after you’re done casting and do a combo finisher with fast startup it should combo.

Guanglai Kangyi.4318:

SoA’s bubble actually stays out a bit longer than the channel. It blocks for about 4s but casts in 2. If you switch immediately after you’re done casting and do a combo finisher with fast startup it should combo.

My apologies, I misread the original post, I thought OP was refering to light fields in general.

Yeah, SoA isn’t a good light field IMO, due to the channeled nature, there are many sigils and consecrations that are better.

Yeah.
Guess I´ll just have to learn embracing our two handed weapon combos.

HawkMeister.4758:

Yeah.
Guess I´ll just have to learn embracing our two handed weapon combos.

Not necessarily. Focus is awesome, and IMO, actually more defensive than shield. If you do go 2h, try hammer. Hammer is boss.