Guild Wars 2

Why does the LB 2 skill take 5 seconds (or whatever) to complete whilst every other classes bow/rifle/other ranged attacks complete almost instantly?

Combined with ‘miss’ ‘obstructed’ ‘blocked’ ‘out of range’ this skill really needs to be shortened on cooldown.

Warrior’s Rifle 3 is hardly instant.

Also, you can quickly see if you’re in range for a skill to hit (or if you can extend an AoE target far enough) by glancing at your skill bars. If the attack would end up as “Out of range!”, you’ll see a red bar beneath the skill.