Guild Wars 2

According to “Specializations, Part One: A Primer,” by Jon Peters on April 23, 2015:

“For example, the necromancer’s wells will all become ground targeted and the trait allowing ground targeting will be removed.”

Problem: ground targeting is a love or hate it mechanic. Personally, I hate it. I’d rather just have the well work as is without ground targeting.

Fix: Make ground targeting an option that can be turned on and off when right clicking on the skill on your skill bar. Solved. Everybody’s happy!

Agreed. The only thing more stealthy then a thief trying to land backstab #10 on your rear end, is the kitten cursor for casting aoe, when you just simply want to drop down a well/trap under your feet here and now.

I don’t think changing the nature of a skill through your settings is a good idea.

They could make a key bind that does that for all ground targeted skills, though, like Alt+key to automatically cast under your feet.

Last time I checked, clicking a ground-targeted skill on your skill bar spawned the targeting ring at your feet — so on fast-cast or instant mode, that’s where you’d cast. Not sure how helpful that actually is to you, however.

evilunderling.9265:

Last time I checked, clicking a ground-targeted skill on your skill bar spawned the targeting ring at your feet — so on fast-cast or instant mode, that’s where you’d cast. Not sure how helpful that actually is to you, however.

who wants to click the UI, everything should be hotkeyed. so that invalidates the ground targeting change, as the target goes to your cursor on hotkeys.

sirsquishy.8531:

who wants to click the UI, everything should be hotkeyed. so that invalidates the ground targeting change, as the target goes to your cursor on hotkeys.

Clicking on the UI should be about as fast as — or faster than — putting the cursor on your feet and pressing the hotkey. Obviously, it’s slower than the skill not being ground-targeted at all.

There shouldn’t be anything wrong with a hotkey to cast a ground-targeted spell at your feet, however. Just make sure someone brings that up at the AMA and I’m sure they’ll take note.

Not to sound like “that guy” but it sounds like you’re talking about a l2p issue.

RabbitUp.8294:

I don’t think changing the nature of a skill through your settings is a good idea.

They could make a key bind that does that for all ground targeted skills, though, like Alt+key to automatically cast under your feet.

That being said, solid suggestion.

Don’t any of the settings in the options :ground targeting drop down box cater to this?

RabbitUp.8294:

I don’t think changing the nature of a skill through your settings is a good idea.

They could make a key bind that does that for all ground targeted skills, though, like Alt+key to automatically cast under your feet.

This, to me, is the perfect solution. Really hope they add it (but have my doubts)

I mouse move, so ground targeting takes some work to do while remaining mobile. I certainly can’t rapidly find my cursor and move it to my feet.

Fortunately for me this is a mostly academic concern as I don’t use my necros for anything but RP. Still, I always avoided the ground-target trait like the plague (pun intended) because needing to select my well location was a sometimes crucial slowdown.

They could make two versions of the skill. One ground targeting version and one without it.

You can double click a skill and it will cast at your feet. This is how thieves blast for stealth using cluster bomb.