Weaponskills and Magic Combo Guide

Combo are simple enough to do. To start a combo you only need enough TP for the first weaponskill, and when the criteria is meet from using the first weaponskill/spell. The weaponskill/spell that follows the first weaponskill/spell will glow purple around it. While it is glowing purple you have about 10 secs to activate it to complete the combo. Now if the mob after starting the combo and the weaponskills/spell is still glowing purple you have the same 10 sec to continue the combo onto a new target.

A combo icon will appear when a combo is trigger.

*After the First Weaponskills all combo Weaponskills that follow will waived all TP and make them free to use

**If a weaponskill in the combo says it gain somthing from doing a action from a specific directions you must do the same to also trigger or continue a combo. (example:Vorpal Thrust "stand behind mob" → Impulse Drive "left or right of the mob" → Chaos Thrust "should activate" )

***If you miss during a combo eps. the three weaponskills combo the combo will fail or not activate, or use a incorrect weaponskill/spell during the combo it fails and need to be restarted.

Example: PGL Pummel → Concussive Blow → Simian Thrust = Increased Damage

Pummel Delivers a melee attack. Damage increased when executed from in front of the target.
TP: 1000 / Recast Time: 10sec.
(Any weaponskill that has a specific position for bonus effect will be the spot you need to stand for combo trigger)

So standing at mob front i get my 1k TP and hit the weaponskill and this should happen when combo has been triggered.

http://www.gwcdn.com/albums/images/4...7f5e004ba2.jpg

Aura Pulse and Concussive Blow are now glowing Purple cause they both can be used in a combo, but i will use Concussive Blow as it does a three weaponskill combo.

Concussive Blow Delivers a melee attack. Chance to inflict Blind when executed from the right or left of the target.
Combo Action: Pummel
Combo Bonus: Increased damage.
TP: 1500 / Recast Time: 30sec.

As the weaponskill says left or right, i move to either side within the 12 seconds you have before combo fails. Now my action bar looks like this after doing the weaponskill.

http://www.gwcdn.com/albums/images/4...7f5e004ba3.jpg

Now Simian Thrust is glowing purple and is the last weaponskill of the combo.

Simian Thrust Delivers a ninefold melee attack with low damage.
Combo Action: Concussive Blow
Combo Bonus: Increased damage.
TP: 2000 / Recast Time: 80sec.

If no direction is listed on the weaponskill that means you can activate it any spot around the mob.



Weaponskill & Spells Combo List

Pugilist

Pummel → Aura Pulse = Chance to inflict Slow

Pummel → Concussive Blow = Increased Damage

Pummel → Concussive Blow → Simian Thrust = Increased Damage

Pounce → Sucker Punch = Chance to increase absorb MP effect

Pounce → Demolish = Dispels an effect

Pounce → Demolish → Howling Fist = Increased Damage

Pummel: TP: 1000 / Recast Time: 10sec.
Pounce: TP: 1500 / Recast Time: 20sec.

Gladiator

Fast Blade → Flat Blade = Increased enmity

Fast Blade → Savage Blade = Increased damage

Fast Blade → Savage Blade → Goring Blade = Increased Bleed damage

Riot Blade → Rage of Halone = Increased accuracy

Fast Blade: TP: 1000 / Recast Time: 10sec.
Riot Blade: TP: 2000 / Recast Time: 80sec.

Marauder

Heavy Swing → Skull Sunder = Increased enmity

Path of the Storm → Whirlwind = consume TP to increase damage when you are below 50% HP

Brutal Swing → Maim = Increased accuracy

Brutal Swing → Maim → Godsbane = Increased critical rate

Heavy Swing: TP: 1000 / Recast Time: 10sec.
Brutal Swing: TP: 1500 / Recast Time: 20sec.

Archer

Heavy Shot → Quick Nock = Fivefold attack and coversion to single target

Heavy Shot → Leaden Arrow = Increased heavy duration

Heavy Shot → Leaden Arrow → Wide Volley = Increased accuracy

Piercing Arrow → Shadowbind = Increased bind duration

Piercing Arrow → Gloom Arrow = Chance to inflict blind

Piercing Arrow → Gloom Arrow → Bloodletter = Inflicts additional damage when bleed fades

Heavy Shot: TP: 1000 / Recast Time: 10sec.
Piercing Arrow: TP: 1000 / Recast Time: 20sec.

Lancer

Vorpal Thrust → Impulse Drive = Increased critical rate

Vorpal Thrust → Impulse Drive → Chaos Thrust = Increased critical rate

True Thrust → Heavy Thrust = Increased stun duration

True Thrust → Leg Sweep = chance to inflicts stun

True Thrust → Leg Sweep → Doom Spike = Increased accuracy

True Thrust: TP: 1000 / Recast Time: 10sec.
Vorpal Thrust: TP: 1500 / Recast Time: 20sec.


Conjurer

Stone → Stonera = Increased damage and conversion to single target

Aero → Aerora = Increased accuracy and conversion to single target

Thaumaturge

Thunder → Thundara = Increased damage and reduced recast time when Stun is not inflicted

Thunder → Thundara → Thundaga = Increased critical damage

Fire → Fira = Reduced cast time

Fire → Fira → Firaga = Reduced cast time

Vorpal Thrust → Impulse Drive → Chaos Thrust = Increased critical rate

doesn't work for me. Do I need to start with 3000 tp?

It will go up to Impulse Drive, but Chaos Thrust will never light up.

ill be updating this as i keep messing around with it, but if you miss the combo is over

Better than before, but still seem too repetitive.
Some improve should be done to to prevent people from only use just 1 same combo ever and ever.

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Originally Posted by Rau

Vorpal Thrust → Impulse Drive → Chaos Thrust = Increased critical rate

doesn't work for me. Do I need to start with 3000 tp?

It will go up to Impulse Drive, but Chaos Thrust will never light up.

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I got it to work u need to be on the left or right on impulse drive to trigger chaos

You forgot to add, if you do any other weaponskill in the combo, it interrupts the combo and you start over from the beginning. i.e., with Gladiator:
Fast Blade --> Savage Blade --> you decide to do Rage of Halone in the middle of it --> Goring Blade

Goring Blade will no longer benefit from the combo and will no longer cost 0 TP to do. I'm sure this was done to force you to think twice about doing a combo against a dangerous monster, but it does make combos a lot less flexible (a straight line in the combo flowchart as opposed to branching paths and side-paths you can take).

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Originally Posted by Bahn

You forgot to add, if you do any other weaponskill in the combo, it interrupts the combo and you start over from the beginning. i.e., with Gladiator:
Fast Blade --> Savage Blade --> you decide to do Rage of Halone in the middle of it --> Goring Blade

Goring Blade will no longer benefit from the combo and will no longer cost 0 TP to do. I'm sure this was done to force you to think twice about doing a combo against a dangerous monster, but it does make combos a lot less flexible (a straight line in the combo flowchart as opposed to branching paths and side-paths you can take).

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thx i added that into my guide

i just opened it for the first time in ages.
it looks and seems to function almost identical to the old system.... am i missing something?

nice guide

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Originally Posted by Dreadnought

i just opened it for the first time in ages.
it looks and seems to function almost identical to the old system.... am i missing something?

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What old system? Battle Regimens? If so they're hardly alike, considering one is done by a single person and the other is done by a group, among other things.

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Originally Posted by Thanos

nice guide

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Thanks I hope it clears up some issues people been having with them

battle regimens was terrible i hated it

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Originally Posted by Zel

Thanks I hope it clears up some issues people been having with them

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keep it updated!

Thanks! Appreciate the effort you put into this.

Hmm nice, but I didn't realize people were having trouble with combo's. Thought the patch notes explained it all pretty well.

I don't know if you want to include useful "Tips for best use" sorts of things, but it might be nice to mention that if you are a DD in a party (can be done solo but more difficult, and the tank shouldn't shift too much for risk of disrupting other members' positions) you should use all of your combos, even the "less powerful" ones. The reason is simply this: each combo weapon skill is free damage.

Using LNC as an example, the third tier weaponskills - Doomspike and Chaos Thrust - have 60s and 80s cooldowns respectively. Once reaching 1000-1500 TP, if you chain True Thrust -> Leg Sweep -> Doomspike with an Auto-attack in between each attack, you will end the combo with about the same TP as you start and, more importantly, it will take approximately 30 seconds to complete. Immediately jumping into Vorpal Thrust -> Impulse Drive -> Chaos Thrust using the same timing will drop you off at the top of the list right about when Doomspike's recast runs out.

The technique can be extrapolated to any class, and while some probably consider this to be blatantly obvious, I'm sure others will appreciate the suggestion.

Nice guide! I mainly use GLA so I was completely lost while using my other jobs, but this guide so simple helped me a lot.
Keep up the good work, pal!

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Originally Posted by RemVye

Hmm nice, but I didn't realize people were having trouble with combo's. Thought the patch notes explained it all pretty well.

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As a general rule I agree, but it sems alot of players were stumbling aver the fact that they wouldn't work. Those player were a little confussed until they recieved the gudence explaiining to them that location in reference to the mob if often a requirment, not a suggestion. So I think the OP just did this as a courtesy to those who needed that clearified.

Not to mention, sometimes it help to be able to look at one page and see what all the combos and there respective effects are.

Thank you nice guide ^O^

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Originally Posted by Zel

Heavy Swing → Skull Sunder = Increased enmity

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Works for me, but the actions on the bar do not glow purple.

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Originally Posted by Zel

Path of the Storm → Whirlwind = consume TP to increase damage when you are below 50% HP

Brutal Swing → Maim = Increased accuracy

Brutal Swing → Maim → Godsbane = Increased critical rate

Heavy Swing: TP: 1000 / Recast Time: 10sec.
Brutal Swing: TP: 1500 / Recast Time: 20sec.

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Do not work at all for me. The combo does not initiate, the tp costs of the following actions in the combo doesn't change to zero, and they do not glow.

I've tried reorganizing the bar to see if they're just bugged. They cannot be removed and re-added thanks to SE's new action bar logic.

Is there something I'm doing wrong? A menu option that needs to be manually enabled? I do not have action queuing enabled because being stuck in place that long is a bad idea. I was going to make my own topic, and might anyway in the bug forum but this seems to fit here just fine.


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Haha nevermind, I was doing it wrong. I didn't read close enough apparently. Didn't know that you had to take into account the specific positioning needed. Brutal swing from left or right, storms path (No, the new name is stupid I won't say it) from behind and heavy swing from front.

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Originally Posted by KitCat

Works for me, but the actions on the bar do not glow purple.



Do not work at all for me. The combo does not initiate, the tp costs of the following actions in the combo doesn't change to zero, and they do not glow.

I've tried reorganizing the bar to see if they're just bugged. They cannot be removed and re-added thanks to SE's new action bar logic.

Is there something I'm doing wrong? A menu option that needs to be manually enabled? I do not have action queuing enabled because being stuck in place that long is a bad idea. I was going to make my own topic, and might anyway in the bug forum but this seems to fit here just fine.


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I'm going to add that I'm talking about them not initiating when the combos do not miss. I know they won't work in that case. They don't fire off for me even when the abilities connect. And i've never seen the bar purple.

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Positioning, You have to fulfill ALL bonus conditions of a WS for it to be considered part of a combo.

For example, Heavy Swing has a bonus when executed from in front of the target. If you do not hit the enemy from he front with Heavy Swing, you do not fulfill that bonus, and thus it does not count for a combo and that is why Skull Sunder does not light up.

This goes for all combos with positioning bonuses.

Hah thanks. I just ready on the Mrd forums. Kind of cool but really more of a pain trying to fire off combos when soloing. If they're going to balance all the difficulty off of combos it's not going to be well for anyone who spends any amount of time soloing anything.
Oh well. Guess that balancing will come with trial and error.

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Originally Posted by KitCat

Hah thanks. I just ready on the Mrd forums. Kind of cool but really more of a pain trying to fire off combos when soloing. If they're going to balance all the difficulty off of combos it's not going to be well for anyone who spends any amount of time soloing anything.
Oh well. Guess that balancing will come with trial and error.

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It depends on the class I would say, I am having a ton of fun solo leveling my PGL (only 19 though). Hitting Pounce, then strafing to the side to get Concussive Blow with the blind, which in turn lets me get Haymaker since it is blinded and misses alot, stunning the mob so I can run around behind and hit up a Blindside Pummel. It takes a little more planning to execute combos solo, I suggest throwing on a few stunning weapon skills like Heavy Thrust from LNC.

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Originally Posted by Rau

Vorpal Thrust → Impulse Drive → Chaos Thrust = Increased critical rate

doesn't work for me. Do I need to start with 3000 tp?

It will go up to Impulse Drive, but Chaos Thrust will never light up.

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Position, sir. Lancer combos are all about position.
such as Vorpal Thrust: "... when excuted from behind the target."

When i get more time ill be putting the position of each combo into the guide

Hey Zel,

Was wondering if I could add this onto XIVPads guides, I will put you as author and link back here as well, it will be pretty much copy/pasted across and featured.

Maybe we can get icons of the skills in too make it fancy with html/photoshop.