Question regarding thief combo's and combo fields. Incredibly confused.

using black powder instantly stacks a double duration of blind, and using another projectile finisher within the 3 seconds that the field is up (so essentially instantly) stacks a third duration of blind.

Be careful with the description for Black Powder. The part that blinds is the Smoke Cloud you lay down, the one which acts as a combo field--it blinds instantly and then pulses. In other words, the 900 range projectile does not blind on its own.

If you shoot point blank on an enemy you'll double blind for 5s, 2s from the cloud and 3s from the self-combo. But if you shoot point blank while standing in a pre-existing different field, the cloud will blind for 2s and the projectile will combo with that pre-existing field. As you can see this does not triple blind.

If you shoot at an enemy farther away than the smoke cloud radius you'll only blind them if the projectile does a smoke combo, either from a pre-existing smoke field or from itself.

Compare with shadow shot (the D/P ambidextry skill 3), which is an unblockable projectile blind for 4 initiative instead of black powder’s 6.

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