Guild Wars 2

As much as it seems straightforward, the vast majority of times using these skills, I miss. I first thought it was an issue with people moving around in PVP, but I tried them on NPC’s where I’d mostly been using axes before, and Rush more often than not overshoots a stationary target, swinging the sword on the other side. Charge will apply knockdown but it still goes past them, swinging the sword at air. Then by the time I turn around and run into range, they’re either up or getting up.

Is it possible to break your skills or something?

Probably dumb idea, but do you have Melee Range Assist ticked? If not, tick it and see if there’s any difference.

Yeah that’s on. It helps if I’m running around manually, but for skills like this that move me themselves it does nothing as far as I can tell.

Sometimes it’s caused by lag. Most of the times it’s because the skills are poorly designed. Both skills cannot be cancelled, this leads to especially Rush rushing into a wall and you are stuck waiting untill it’s over. The skill rushes behind the mob/player so you need to turn to hit. In PvE this means you are set back a second, but in PvP someone who wants to get away will be away by just walking.

There is another issue with Rush, which is the extremely SLOW attack animation. It’s supposed to be a gap closer, but in the 2 seconds it takes to hit someone can get away.

Depends how far you are overshooting your target, it will not attack anything that isn’t targetted, leading to you running straight past an enemy right in front of you.

LameFox.6349:

As much as it seems straightforward, the vast majority of times using these skills, I miss. I first thought it was an issue with people moving around in PVP, but I tried them on NPC’s where I’d mostly been using axes before, and Rush more often than not overshoots a stationary target, swinging the sword on the other side. Charge will apply knockdown but it still goes past them, swinging the sword at air. Then by the time I turn around and run into range, they’re either up or getting up.

Is it possible to break your skills or something?

Hey good question!

This is it how you do it -

For Rush – you hit the ability, then you have to hit it a 2nd time to cancel the charge motion as you get to the enemy. It sounds trickier than it is, the problem is the rush wants to charge it’s full distance before swinging, so if you’ll get to the enemy prior to that, you have to cancel the move – which then starts the swing.

Bull Rush – can have a similar effect, but honestly I don’t find myself needing to cancel it at all for the knockdown to go off it’s usually pretty solid with it’s collision detection. However, if you’re having a lot of issues you CAN use the same method.

@Fortuitous

Good post. I had the hardest time with skills like these until I found the target dummies in lion’s arch. There I can practice on them without fear of being overwhelmed. This is the same thing you have to do with the underwater net skill. Fire it then press the skill a second time to deploy where you want it.

Wow… never would have suspected that, I just assumed it was (supposedly) target-finding. I guess I’ll have to practice and see if I can get the timing right, and if that fails, just choose different weapons.