Guild Wars 2

I cannot for some reason reply to the bugs thread, but I was wondering if this is by design and maybe I am missing something?

If I lay down a spectral wall, then place a putrid mark on top of it, the spectral combo does not occur. On the other hand if I blow up one of my bone minions on the spectral wall, I get the spectral buff.

Is the combo not intended to work with Putrid Mark or is this something to do with where the enemy is when the putrid mark is activated?

Wall combo fields are finished only by leap and projectile finishers.

*Reread that. I guess I don’t know what to think. Interesting that bone minions proc the effect.

Spectral wall is buggy. Shocking I know, but true.

Putrid Mark has to be triggered and detonated to get its blast finisher effect. Did this happen, or did you just place the mark?

I wish placing any mark would change the skill and give us the option to detonate it at will, much like several other spells in the game(Bone Minion comes to mind), especially if they are going to put a finisher on it; it is inconsistent and depressing otherwise.

Mathemagician.7314:

Putrid Mark has to be triggered and detonated to get its blast finisher effect. Did this happen, or did you just place the mark?

I wish placing any mark would change the skill and give us the option to detonate it at will, much like several other spells in the game(Bone Minion comes to mind), especially if they are going to put a finisher on it; it is inconsistent and depressing otherwise.

I agree, changing the skill to a detonate skill once the mark is placed would be awesome, especially for Putrid Mark.

Here’s how I tested it. I was fighting some Skale in Diessa Plateau. I would get the skale to come attack me, I would place the Spectral wall down directly in front of me and then once the skale was in front of me (standing inside the spectral wall’s boundaries) I would place a Putrid Mark right on top of the Skale inside the Spectral Wall. The Mark would explode, but no combo ever occurred. Though, whenever I detonated my bone minion inside the wall (a difficult skill to master since the wall’s boundaries are so small and the bone minions are so fast), the combo finisher worked perfectly and myself and all my minions got Chaos Armor.

Like I said, perhaps this is how they intend it to work, I just don’t understand the logic behind one blast finisher working and another not working unless its bugged.

Nevermind about this thread guys. I just read the bugs thread and it is bugged. There is a 3-5 second delay before you get the bonus.