Guild Wars 2

Well the title says it all. Do you think it is worth to “fake cast” skills (even if it is only certain skills) to bait dodges/blocks/interrupts etc.?

Ahh and to be complete with fake casting i mean canceling a skill in the last moment (e.g. by pushing the strow weapon button). By doing that you would only get the “interupt” cooldown (which i belive is 4 seconds) instead of the full cooldown.

In very specific situations, yes.

Off the top of my head, moa bird comes to mind. Top tier players can easily spot the animation for this and will dodge it, so you can either cast it from stealth or fake cast it to make your target waste dodges.

Yup, worth it for elites… Some classes get more use out of it than others.. warriors will fake cast highly telegraphed skills like a pin down, or use weapon swap to fake an f1.

For mesmers and thieves I think its more down to mind games, not so much visual faking, however just as much baiting occurs… Also clearly skills are obscured through stealth, terrain+ports etc

Engi has a ton of tricks, ways of concealing through casting skills one after another, stun breaks etc…

It all really depends on the class.. what do you play?