Guild Wars 2

I’ve had countless of situations in WvW where I got myself killed because I tried to use a skill like Savage Leap or Rush to get away, while I had an enemy behind me targeted.

All other skills have an arc in which the enemy must be for the skill to hit. If you’re moving away from your enemy, the skill fires in front of you and misses. I suggest you do the same for gap closers. If you’re moving away from your target, you should jump forwards, and not backwards.

I dont do pvp mainly due to the framedrop but i noticed this too while questing / doing events etc. Tried to get some distance to the enemy by turning around clicking my target off to be sure i dont charge to him, but whaddyaknow it went straight for the mob kinda annoying

you can do this by double clicking the ground in front of you, before firing off the skill, to make sure you don’t have an enemy selected. May have to check double click to select in the options, not sure what happens if that isn’t selected.

I have a guardian that does this. He even does it sometimes when Ive deselected the mob. Ive found that if you dodge roll forward then immediately press your gap closer then you will leap away from the mob.

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you can do this by double clicking the ground in front of you, before firing off the skill, to make sure you don’t have an enemy selected. May have to check double click to select in the options, not sure what happens if that isn’t selected.

I know I can double click the ground to deselect my target, but in the heat of battle, when I’m first attacking someone with a ranged weapon and then switch to sword to use Savage Leap, I sometimes forget to do that. If I’m rushing through the middle of an enemy zerg trying to get inside a keep, it’s difficult to reliably find an empty spot on the ground to click, with all the characters and particles around me. Especially in that last case, a leap in the wrong direction will always get me killed. I can’t really think of any situation where I would want to leap backwards towards my target, so I think my solution is the best way to handle this.