Guild Wars 2

smoke combo field + blast combo finisher
this should give 3 seconds of invisibility for each finisher.
i tried it with my engineer, since i like to play on high skillevel and would like to use this for my new build. but i came across a strange bug, that looked like this:

- smokefield from smoke bomb + detonate shield = gave me expected 3 seconds of invisibility.
- smokefield + big ol’ bomb = gave me expected 3 seconds of invis.
- smokefield + big ol bomb AND detonate shield = gave me ONLY 3 seconds of invisibility TOO! Instead of expected 6 seconds.
- adding further combofinishers DID further increase the invisibility of invisibility, although minus 3 seconds (3 finishers gave me 6 seconds, 4 finsihers gave me 9 seconds, 5 finishers gave me >10 seconds)

this was tested many many times, and counting the “invisible” combo-popups, i can guarantee the number of finishers triggering in the smoke field.

since the missing duration bonus to invisibilty from the second blast finisher is crucial to my build i decided to write this report for further investigation on your side. if you need further information about which finishers i used, please feel free to respond.

They nerfed the combo because of thieves used this for permastealth.

Was totally useless for a thief stay in stealth forever, but meh… They need to nerf everything concern thieves.

The combo field wasn’t what was nerfed about the “perma-stealth” thief, it was the initiative regen from skills that grant stealth allowing for the dagger/pistol shenanigans, which are still capped at 15 seconds, IIRC.

Nothing about this particular bug has anything to do with that nerf, as each blast finisher should grant an additional 3 seconds of stealth, as long as they are procced on the smoke field and nothing is over/under-writing it.

Ergo Bug. Pza, I will try to recreate this later and report my results if I can.