The Combo Guide (Part 1)

The combos... that special characteristic that Arenanet bring it to us on this game. The combo system is a beautiful merge of strategy, timing, cooperative game, and minded game. Lets start with the basics..

What is the Combo System?

The Combos are the result of two skills, one that create a field, and other that finish the combo with an attack. There are nine types of fields, and four types of finishers; so we have 36 different effects.

How do you perform a Combo?

First you (or one of your teammates) have to use a skill that creates a field. This field has a time (not last forever). When the field is active, you can perform a skill that have in the description that is a finisher, and BOOM... You made a combo.

Lets see the combo fields and which skills made them.

Dark Field

You can create a Dark Field using the Shadow Refuge Thief skill; and the Well of Corruption, Well of Darkness, Well of Power and the Well of Suffering. All these are Necromancer's skills.

A dark field combined with the combo finishers causes: Blindness (Blast Finisher, and Leap Finisher) and Life Steal (Proyectile Finisher and Whirl Finisher).

Here is a nice video of how the Dark Fields works:

Ethereal Field

You can create an Ethereal Field using the Throw Gunk Thief skill; Chaos Storm, Feedback, Null Field and Time Warp. All these are Mesmer's skills. And the Necromancer Spectral Wall.

An Ethereal field combined with the combo finishers causes: a Chaos Armor (Blast Finisher, and Leap Finisher) and Confusion (Proyectile Finisher and Whirl Finisher).

Fire Field

You can create an Fire Field using:

Guardian: Purging Flames and Hallowed Ground.

Warrior: Combustive Shot.

Ranger: Bonfire and Flame Trap.

Engineer: Fire Bomb and Napalm.

Elementalist: Burning Retreat, Burning Speed, Flamewall, Lava Font and Ring of Fire.

A Fire field combined with the combo finishers causes: Might (3 stacks) to your allies in an area (Blast Finisher) Fire Shield (Leap Finisher) and Burning (Proyectile Finisher and Whirl Finisher).

Ice Field

You can create an Ice Field using the Launch Ice Mortar Engineer's skill; The Ranger Frost Trap and the Elementalist Frozen Ground

An Ice field combined with the combo finishers causes: a Frost Armor to your allies (Blast Finisher, and Leap Finisher) and Chilled (Proyectile Finisher and Whirl Finisher).

In the next post i am going to comment about the last 5 combo fields Light, Lighting, Poison, Smoke and Water.

See you next time.

Thank you for reading

The Warrior Skills (TwoHanded)

Now, that we had a short brief of the profession we can look up closer to the weapon skills of the Warrior.

Lets start with Two handed...

The Greatsword....

The adrenaline up skill is the Arcing slice, it does 349 Damage and boons yourself with Fury.

The number 1 skill causes Vurnerability and does 259 damage.
Number 2 skill attacks multiples foes (up to 8) doing 1624 Damage; with a final strike of 406.

The number 3 skill is a combo finisher (Whirl) that does 259 Damage.

The number 4 skill is a combo finisher (Proyectile) that cripple your foe and does 277 damage.

The number 5 Skill is a charge and strike skill that does 628 damage with a 1200 range.



Now the Hammer

The adrenaline skill is Earthshaker, does 244 damage and stun your foe.

The number 1 skill does 333 damage, with 2 stances, doing 444 damage respectively.

Number 2 skill, it does 518 damage and causes weakness to the foe.

The number 3 skill, does 259 damage and cripple your enemy.

Number 4 skill does 481 damage, with a combo finisher of Whirl, doing 180 knockback damage.

The last skill of the hammer is another knockback skill, that does 554 damage.



Now, the Longbow...

The adrenaline up skill is the Combustive shot, that burns your foes creating a fire combo field. It have a range of 1200.

The number 1 skill does 212 damage, 2 times, its a proyectile finisher (20% chance).

Number 2 skill does 423 damage, 3 times, that burns your foe for 2 seconds (1968 damage).

The number 3 skill does 511 damage, it is a blast combo finisher.

Number 4 skill does 71 damage, but causes blind for 5 seconds.

And the number 5 skill is the Pin Down, does 141 damage and immobilize your foe for 3 seconds, its a proyectile combo finisher.


And last, the Rifle...

The adrenaline up skill is the Kill Shot, it does damage (depending on the adrenaline level, 574, 702 and 829) Its a proyectile combo finisher.

Number 1 skill does 155 damage, and bleeds your foe for 5 seconds (255 damage). Its a proyectile combo finisher (20% chance).

Number 2 skill, Aimed Shot, 135 damage and cripples your foe for 5 seconds. Its a proyectile combo finisher.

The number 3 skill is a volley of 5 shots that does 1160 Damage(5 times). Its a proyectile combo finisher.

Number 4 skill, shoot your foe and does 193 damage, and causes 10 seconds of vulnerability. Its a proyectile combo finisher.

And last the number 5 does 386 Damage, and knockback your foe with 450 damage.


This is a brief of the twohanded weapon skills of the Warrior on Guild Wars 2.. hope you like it, and found it useful. 

See ya.- 

The Master of Protection

Our second profession to analize is the Guardian, the Master of Protection. The Guardians use their attacks to do damage and to aid and help allies, their skills are a merge of damage and support.

Unique skill: virtues. The guardian have three special skills called virtues ( of Courage; of Justice; of Resolve) that grants continuous boons to himself and allies in a passive way, and do damage to the foes. This skills have to be activated.

Here is a video of a Guardian in Structured PvP

The Master of Weaponry

Our first profession to look up is the Warrior. These little guys can use almost every weapon in the game, axes, swords, maces, shields, warhorns, rifles and longbows.

Unique style: the warriors use their adrenaline, builded up thanks of succesfully hits. Their adrenaline can devastate their enemy, with tons of damage. 

They also have different stances, that improve temporarily combat skills. Another cool thing that the warriors can use, are the Banners. They can plant them on the battleground giving boons to their allies!

Here is a nice gameplay video of this powerful profession...