Guild Wars 2

Since the beginning i used fast-cast ground targeting but now I’m wondering if this is really that useful.
Initially i turned this option “on” because i play League of Legends and there’s a feature really similar to this one called “smart-cast” which will cast your AoE ability at the current position of your cursor, since AoE skills in Gw2 are circular, the center of the circumference will be your cursor location. (we all know this)
I’m really used to it and i barely fail the target (targets since we are talking about AoE skills) but there is one major downside: i cant see ,with precision, which area my skill will affect, obviously this isn’t a major problem for PVE since i can predict the mob’s movements and estimate the radius of my AoE ability and hit, most of the times, all of them.
Recently i started to watch some PVP gameplays on youtube and the majority of the players have this option turned off.
So i started wondering what is the matter with the fast-cast ground targeting feature for people in pvp.
Obviously its a matter of precision but you also have to make 2 clicks to execute the ability instead of one (with fast-cast).
With practice and time you would be able to guess the area of your AoE precisely and because you using fast-cast you are going to be faster then your opponent. Quick usage of skills its an enormous factor in PVP so i still can’t figure out why people dont use it.
Does this feature really distorts your ability to aim precisely that much for people consider this over faster skill executions?

(Sorry for my bad English)
Thanks in advance,

Nuno

When I first played GW2, I used it a lot but now I don’t. Based on experience, fast-cast ground targeting AOE really does have an impact on precision especially in uneven terrain. I find it harder to practice fast-cast targeting personally. But the time it takes to manually target AOE gets significantly reduced with practice though. It’s much easier after some time.

Really depends on preference, I think. XD