Guild Wars 2

Today I was in spvp and I was playing my guardian when a funny thing happened. I was attacking another guardian with the scepter using Orb of Wrath and all of a sudden he started moving right then left then right and so on. This caused the orbs to shoot right then left but miss his character completely stating that he was out of range. I do believe that this is a bug but please let me know other wise. Thanks!

It’s intended. Maybe not the message, but the ability to dodge projectiles. Simply move closer or use a different weapon.

It’s not a bug, and what he was doing is called strafing.

This is one reason why many guardian don’t like the scepter. If you’re playing against any half decent player the orbs won’t hit them.

This is also the reason Ranger and Warrior projectiles had their speed buffed this patch – you could just strafe at a distance to make all of their attacks miss until they moved in close, at which point you’ve neutralized the advantage of fighting at range. The fact that other slow projectiles received buffs this patch has left many Guardians scratching their heads about the Scepter’s exclusion, particularly in light of the fact that Guardians lack soft CC like cripple, and most of the CC they do have is on 20+ second cooldowns. Due to the low speed and potential for enemies to evade the projectiles in the way you described, the Scepter is not an effective weapon outside of 600 range.

Yea, I believe its intended, you could also strafe arrows in gw1. This is why many big attacks take so long to hit, to give you time to hit or simply move out of the way.

What’s the bad news, ‘cause unless they’ve redecorated the Gate room, I don’t think we’re in Kansas anymore.