Guild Wars 2

…is how the effect Combination system works?

Let’s take “magicka” for a second … if I stack together Steam (Water+fire) And Lightning and channel it into a Boss…. that crap’s getting gibbed in a few seconds, no ifs ands or buts. … If I try any of that here, it cancels out or does really lackluster damage. Or if I lunge through enough Fields, I get just enough seconds of the “shield” thing on me to be hit ONCE and then it disappears again. And my worthless pet gets even LESS opportunities to benefit from these Combos. Dave Letterman would be rolling in his grave over this if he was actually dead and still had the rights to Stupid-Pet-Tricks

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And what if I equip special Sigils that should be making more environment effects? …esp on crits where we should be better b/c of our Perma-Fury potential. …NOPE, it’s always just better to go Accuracy, Night, or Force sigils. (High blood/heal Necros have this same issue with Vampiric & other leeching effects that should be right up their alley but actually suck really hard compared to raw power builds or MM cheese that’s even found its way into sPVP).

Why are all of these cool effects, that were a huge part of Anet’s Marketing of this game, so short lived? (and why aren’t they replacing the Magic Find gear with gear stats that alter the Durations & DMG on these Combos?). Do they even WORK against all Structural Objectives like Turrets & Catapults and Burrows? Should they scale up on Condition or something else?

These are the kinds of Questions I think we should be asking Anet when it come to PvE given their begrudging nod towards the issue 2 days ago when we got another Blast finisher (that I still can’t tell if it’s even working right in Zergs b/c it doesn’t RENDER!)

I like the new blast finisher and I feel like its been working perfectly for me. Its just if you have the combo fields stacked on top of each other, it’ll turn the game into a giant STACK ALL THE FIELDS and blast them all. It just would destroy balance. It would render all of the other finishers useless because blast is the best for having AOE boons and stuff like that.

However, the fact that it was a huge part of their campaign makes sense because its a totally new area that not many games directly improved on. I, for one, haven’t seen a game that is so geared towards teams trying to make the best of a field and focusing on teamwork rather one person with very good gear doing all the work

How do i shot OP? It’s on a really LOOOONG cooldown??

Melee pets permanently dead