Guild Wars 2

I have been reading the GW2 wiki re: combo finishers and fields and marshes and lakes and other tat….now, can someone explain in English how I, as a mere hammer warrior, can kill something with a combo finisher? Or possibly explain how the hammer skills I ahve been using interact with this strange field thing, where the field comes from and how I will recognise it while trying to figure out how to get the daily dodge to recognise I have dodged?

The combo finisher had to be the LAST hit on the target before it died to make it count for the combo part in the daily yesterday.

You could use your combo finishers during the fight, but aslong it’s not the last hit on the target it wouldn’t count. It’s much easier to lay down a field, and wait for people to make the last hit through it with a finisher. Warrior doesn’t have many fields though :P

You can see within the description of each skill (when you hover over the skill) if it works as a finisher. You got projectile finishers, or leap finishers etc.

I just used the F1 skill (Field) from my longbow. Seemed to work nicely.

Use Staggering Blow inside like half the combo fields and hope a bolt from it hits and kills a target.

But the easiest way is just to take a Longbow and spam the burst skill, it generates a huge long duration fire field that if others get a combo kill with you also receive credit for making the field.

Hammer for warrior has two finishers – Staggering Blow (3 – whirl) and your burst Earthshaker (f1 – blast). Basically you see anything that’s not a red circle on the ground, and do one of those and you’ll likely get something. Warriors have the fewest fields in the game (only bow f1, woo!), but a crap ton of finishers. This pretty much means that you’re screwed on setting up combos, but you can always finish them.

This may help: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Table_of_warrior_combo_skills

Hmmm…so as a rifle+hammer warrior, are you saying I have to ditch the weapons I like playing with to make some mystical field? If so then the patch has sort of wrecked a large portion of the fun of GW2 IMO, I liked pootling around doing the old daily series while awaiting my mate logging on. Now I have to go looking for people leaving fields lying about, use weapons I don’t like and hope a-la WoW to get in the killing blow? I hope not, as I had grown to like GW2…..

bra the game has always been like this. patch didnt affect these issues as far as i know

Warrior has always been strongest with others. They have a lot of group support (shouts and flags), hammer is great CC to work with other DPS, and that finisher set up means you can mop things up. The fact that they are so reliant on others to make them more powerful makes them a bit less of a solo class, but I think the devs should look to see how to make other classes reliant on others for a boost in strength rather than make warriors full potential at solo… this is a mmo, not console rpg after all.

That aside, I do think you should consider expanding your weapon set beyond two. Rifle is a beautiful single target weapon, but lacks multi-target. Bow on the other hand is great multi-target as almost every skill can hit groups. By locking yourself, you are locking yourself from functionality and abilities of your character – in this case, creating combo fields.