Guild Wars 2

Fellow Guardians, I am just posting a vague idea to give the much maligned single-handed weapons a bit of a boost:

What do you think of about making more of the powers on one handers into fields/finishers for combos? Which do you think would be good candidates for these?

This is a great idea, as I believe all weapons should have at least a combo field or combo finisher. This is one area I believe Area-Net could improve group dynamics.

One skill off the top of my head would be Sword 3 Zealot’s Defence made it a projectile finisher as it is already considered a projectile for reflects, so we get the negative aspect but not the positive aspect.

I agree. I’d also like to see some more combos on several other classes. It seems that there’s a master plan that states only certain classes can have lots of fields, and those are the high-skill button mashtastic ones (engi, ele).

Sword #2: Leap Finisher;
Sword #3: Project Finisher (100%);
Torch #4 (Sequence): Project Finisher (100%);
Mace #3 (if struck): Blast Finisher.

Staff#2: Blast Finisher

Since scepter #1 and focus #4 can be reflected, they should be projectile finisher (respectively 20% and 100%).
I disagree on sword #2 leap finisher and staff #2 blast finisher, it’d make much more sense to give staff #4 blast finisher.

stemare.2578:

… it’d make much more sense to give staff #4 blast finisher.

You could easily see guardians almost giving 25 stacks of might too quickly this way though. I disagree with this suggestion.

Sword 2 as a Leap is a given. How its not already is beyond me, it makes zero sense when Mesmer’s staff reverse teleport is a Leap and yet the Guardian Sword which is basically the same except towards an enemy isn’t.

Mace 3 is already an un-listed Whirl finisher, but only if you don’t block an attack (and its so short that it only launches 1 single projectile). It should apply to both a successful block and a non-block, and it should launch at least 2 projectiles.

Torch 5 should leave behind a Fire field for a few seconds at the location of the cone when the ability ends. Would give the ability a little more use. Don’t know if a cone-shaped field is possible or not, though.

Scepter…. I dunno. None of the skills really feel like they’d fit with a finisher. Projectile finsher doesn’t fit because its for Physical projectiles, not magic attacks, and none of the other types fits at all. I guess best bet would be to turn Smite into a symbol so that it could be a combo field.

For Shield, I’m again not sure. 5 would make sense as a Blast finisher, it blows enemies back when used, but I’m not sure how that would work with the Light field it already creates. Or maybe tie the Blast to Detonate specifically?

I like the idea of a finisher on staff when it finishes (gives players/mobs the chance to interupt).

Sceptre really should have a projectile finisher, if they insist on leaving it as it is.

Shield has bigger problems that i’m not sure a finisher would solve.

staff#2 as blast finisher when you actually explode it – it completely fits as a blast finisher then – not for every launch

Every mele weapon should have a combo

Not only Staff #2 from mesmers, but also the teleport from sword #2 (Swap) are leap. Why our sword #2 cant be a leap?