Guild Wars 2

Asura vs Human vs Norn

I play an Asura theif and notice that when I use heartseeker to close in on an enemy, my heartseeker tends to miss more often than hit. Ive been playing this character since release and it never really bothered me until I started watching WvW gameplay on youtube. There are multiple videos out here that show humans and norn that seem to leap double the distance that my character does. I would be interested if anyone else notices this as well. I have 8 characters and would hate to buy another character slot just to build a human to test this out. My guild is rather small and it would be greatly appreciated if there were any thief WvW’ers that play alot together that might be able to stand side by side and use a single heartseeker to measure the distance. Im the shortest height Asura and the vids I see are normal to taller sized humans and norn. Ill probably record and publish a youtube video of my Asura and distances measured in town and WVW to show how short the heartseekers are. Maybe I can get a few video responses of humans and norn heartseekers in the same test areas I record.

To sum up my jibberish, Does height affect heartseeker distance?
Is distance of heartseeker affected by race?

Hmm just tried this with tallest Norn, shortest human and shortest asura. They can all get the same distance but HS is going an inconsistent range between use when used without a target. This is true across all 3 races. With a target it can get the full 450. Without a target it only seems to get somewhere around 290.

Tested this using the practice dummy in LA. Target a dummy and backoff until the range indicator turns red then go forward a step so you are in range. If you keep the target select it goes the max range. If you deselect the target then it doesn’t always go the full distance.

Wow, I never thought about using the practice dummy. I appreciate the response, very helpful. +1