Guild Wars 2

Kravick.4906:

Calestian.1598:

it works everytime but its a bit weird. if u dont have a target, then the blast finisher happens on urself, but if u do have a target, the blast finisher happens exactly on the target. so for example if u want to do lava font and arcane brilliance and u have a boss targeted, the lava font must be under the boss as well, same with any field.

Yep, just tested this. You’re right. However, theres a small abnormality. This is only true if the target is hostile or attackable (red/yellow). If the target is non-hostile (green), it will blast around the player instead, which I believe is where the confusion is coming from. Furthermore, if you blast a water field like this at a distance (water field is under your HOSTILE OR ATTACKABLE target), the effect goes off around the targeted NPC and not yourself.

I’m not sure I really like this design. Arcane Brilliance is not a ranged ability like Arcane Wave. If it was a targeted ranged AoE (requires a target to do damage at range, but isn’t ground targeted like Arcane Wave) like Arcane Wave, I would say it should stay as is, but since Arcane Brilliance is point blank AoE, I think the blast finisher should always center on the player.

Also, there is another oddity regarding Arcane Brilliance. Even though you must be standing inside the combo field at the beginning of your cast to trigger a blast finisher with Arcane Brilliance, if the combo field happens to disappear before you finish casting the skill, you don’t get a blast combo. Honestly, I believe the blast combo effect should be based on where you are standing when you finish casting Arcane Brilliance, and not where you are standing when you begin casting it. It just doesn’t make sense how this skill was constructed.

If anyone wants to test this for themselves, its very easy to set up. Equip a staff. Stand far enough back so you don’t aggro your target when casting Arcane Brilliance. Just drop a combo field (Healing Rain or Static Field) under an attackable target. Activate Arcane Brilliance with the attackable NPC targeted while it is standing inside of your combo field. Watch as the combo effect activates around your target (Water splashes, the wind effect from blasting lightning fields to get swiftness, etc).

This is happening to me as well. It’s really annoying when pre stacking might, hope they will fix this soon.

For more info you could do:

(in the command line)
path/to/Gw2.exe -diag and post the result here.

I’m experiencing the same thing, but I narrowed it down to be a problem with my ISP (PLDT). Tried to call them but they are not even admitting that there is a problem LOL.

No fix yet? It’s really annoying…