Guild Wars 2

Just cant use to absence of a global cd in the game. (have played WoW for 2 yrs and gw2 for a yr)In my point of view all this incredible kills in a half of a second should be impossible, how can i react to this when i even have no time to understand what’s going on? I know that some skills have aftercast, but the longest aftercast which i know is backstabs aftercast(it’s fair) but i think that all skills should have long aftercast(about 0.5-1sec). It will slow down the game, because it’s too fast….
that’s what i’m talking about
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MlXskSmfpI
sory for my poor english. Hope u understand me xD

This game does not have gcds but it does have short cast times for skills so that most skills cannot be overlapped. The cast time is basically the animation time. if you overlap a cast time skill with another cast time skill it will interrupt the first cast time skill used and put the skill on a short cooldown (I think around 2 second). You can however overlap cast time skills with skills that don’t have a cast time (with few exceptions).

If you swap weapons mid cast you will interrupt the cast. If you swap attunements mid cast you will not interrupt the cast.

Using the WoW analogy think of non cast time skills as off-GCD skills.

In the video the ele started off with a cast time skill and then immediately spammed a number of non cast time skills. She started with Earthquake which has a cast time, but before the animation ended she teleported to her target using lightning flash thus hitting the target with both earthquake and lightning flakitten the same time she switched attunements and hit the target with blinding flash and lighting strike (both no cast time) and the two utilities arcane blast and arcane wave (again both no cast time) resulting in a total of 6 skills hitting the target all at once.

I want to agree with this OP in general. However on ele it feels nice to change attunements while casting+Lightning flash if your quick enough or have a macro,,, BUT ya 6 skills landing at the same time is how should I put it META?!?!

I haven’t played ele since launch and I don’t know how many other classes can land that many skills at the same time but it could just be a class specific thing making ele feel special…..

I don’t know how to fix it either but GCD would suck and I like in general the combat aside from the snags.

Krayiss.4926:

I want to agree with this OP in general. However on ele it feels nice to change attunements while casting+Lightning flash if your quick enough or have a macro,,, BUT ya 6 skills landing at the same time is how should I put it META?!?!

I haven’t played ele since launch and I don’t know how many other classes can land that many skills at the same time but it could just be a class specific thing making ele feel special…..

I don’t know how to fix it either but GCD would suck and I like in general the combat aside from the snags.

I agree that attunements should not have an aftercast, and abilities which have casting time should not have an aftercast, im talking about instant abilities. Landing 3(casting ability+attunment+instant ability) abilities at same time its ok, but 7 ( 6 of them are instant abilities) is wierd…

Straight up damaging skills should never ever have instant cast times without a global cd between them.
This was a problem on Rift at the beginning as well, warriors could make macros with reactive skills, press one button and 4-5 skills would go off at the same time…then devs realized that it was broken (warriors were really op in that timeframe), and introduced a 0.5s cd between those reactive abilities.
Something should be done here as well, imo.
Speaking for my class, either add a 0.25/0,5 s cast time to currently instant damaging abilities (Lightning Strike and Arcane Blast/Wave), or put a gcd between them (like it was done for mesmer shatters)

anyone using a macro should get perma banned, ive no problem with people doing 1 shot builds if they use skill anet are completely against game manipulation even suggesting you can use a macro is against the user agreement. dont use macro! and if your finding it hard versus a spike put your stun breaker on an easier button to reflex there is an after cast in this game but its not the same as others.

When you look at this video, the stun break wouldn’t have helped I’m afraid. Except if you’re talking about a stunbreaker that renders you invulnerable. But even then, the second you’re hit, you’re down.

1/2 – 1/4 second is pretty realistic by combat standards. It is a little though getting into for a game but keep watching and the game will slow down for you.