Guild Wars 2

I can only guess that this is a side effect of nerfing series 7.

right now, it’s damage is so low that the entire 7 second channel does significantly less than the basic spammable punch.

honestly, the damage would have to be buffed tenfold to make it not a giant waste of time. it would be a good idea to split the skill from the npc version so you don’t have to worry about breaking one skill by balancing another.

The same could be said for Ranger Pet AI and Mob AI. Unfortunately, Anet just really doesn’t seem to want to go to the lengths required to make sure things work well; maybe there’s some kind of other concern they have, or they’re devoting too much manpower to the Living Story.

Every racial is meant to be underpowered, mate. They can fill a lacking “niche” like Evasive Pistol for Necro, but in general they’re often “dead” skills nobody uses.

There’s ‘underpowered, looking at the rest of what the class can do,’ and there’s ‘so, why would I ever use this channeled, nothing-but-damage skill, when the autoattack deals more damage faster?’

I so wish I could use the normal Asuran racial skills in my elite slot. The normal skills are so much better than the elite ones…