Guild Wars 2

I’m being lazy posting some of these while I’m at work instead of testing them on my own, but I appreciate all answers!

What happens when you use other skills while you have the stealth part of The Prestige activated? So far, I can see that casting a heal or summoning a phantasm doesn’t seem to change anything – the stealth continues and the fire blast triggers. But what happens for these cases:
- You do an attack (I assume it breaks stealth – but does the fire trigger?). For example, if I started Confusing Images on the scepter right before stealth expired, what happens?
- You do a weapon swap (I’m wondering if I can use the blast finisher in this sequence – cast Prestige, swap weapons, cast Chaos Storm – will the blast finisher still happen?)
- You get dazed/stunned/knocked down – does this prevent the fire blast?

Phantasmal Mage says in the wiki that it cannot bounce to the same target more than once. So if you have Illusionary Elasticity, and you’re fighting just one opponent, it sounds like it won’t bounce back and put more confusion on the opponent. Is that right? (Seems like a needless limitation on a weak skill)

Thx for the help!

You can use any ability or really anything while in the stealth. Even if you break the stealth early or get cced during the stealth, the fire blast will still trigger at the same time, no matter what. And yes, you can swap to staff and the blast will still occur.

Haven’t tested the mage bit, but you can attack or use a heal while stealthed from prestige and even if you get revealed the flam burst will still happen. Same with chaos storm.

As said, the blast is timed, no matter whether you break stealth early or not. After 3s it will blast, or after 4s if you have PU (someone correct me if I’m wrong haven’t tested with PU in a while).

Easy to self combo aoe chaos armour or whatever else you want.

Thx very much – always get great answers here

One follow-on question: Does chaos armor stack duration or does it get replaced?

If I do the Prestige blast in Chaos Storm and then do Phase Retreat, is that 8 seconds of chaos armor (or 5 seconds from the leap or the leap doesn’t proc at all because I already have chaos armor on me)?

Thx!

Hmm, I believe it wears off after 5s of whatever the last thing you created it with. So no, the duration doesn’t stack.

I’ve always tried to let the last one come to an end before proccing it again – to make it last longer.

Anyway, you can test it out easily enough with torch and staff.

Yup – I was being lazy asking while I was at work yesterday. I tried it out last night, and it seems like it actually does stack. I let the blast finisher happen, and then I did phase retreat and I counted until the shield dropped. It seemed like about 8 seconds.

I’ll try to record it with FRAPS tonight and get an accurate count.

eldenbri.1059:

Yup – I was being lazy asking while I was at work yesterday. I tried it out last night, and it seems like it actually does stack. I let the blast finisher happen, and then I did phase retreat and I counted until the shield dropped. It seemed like about 8 seconds.

I’ll try to record it with FRAPS tonight and get an accurate count.

Oh, heh shows how much I pay attention to things!

I guess I’ve just never tried to proc it twice in a row out of habit – that and I haven’t been able to get in game to test for a few days either.

Try the following – prestige, swap, chaos storm, phase retreat, chaos armour – all in a row, and see if it stacks up. I’ll have a go myself once I’ve finished downloading the patch.

Well I just tried that (prestige-chaos storm-phase retreat-chaos armour) and it was not 13s – more like 6 (taking into account skill activation time), so I don’t think it does stack.