Guild Wars 2

I was in WvW standing on top of keep wall defending against enemy attack. I target an enemy below and start firing. I got a ‘No line of sight’ message and none of my spell land on the enemy. However, the same enemy is able to hit me from where he is. Direct hit and not AOE hit.

If I have no line of sight to him, he has line of sight to me? What strange physics is that?

Second example: Now I am the attacker of enemy keep. I try to AOE on enemy on top of wall. I kept getting ‘Out of range’ message. I have to move myself to the very foot of the wall to be able to let out one AOE spell on the wall top. My AOE spell range is 1200 and I thought to myself, this wall height must be taller than 1200 which explain why I had to move to the foot of the wall in order to AOE the top of the wall. I can only let out one AOE on top of the keep wall before I came under the barrage of arrow carts fire. I retreated to a further distance away from the wall to get away from the arrow fire. I did not think about this 1200 high wall when I instintively start to AOE the wall top while beating my retreat away from the wall.

Hey, I am able to AOE the wall top from a further distance while I can get a ‘Out of range’ message when I AOE it from a nearer distance. Did I get my physics right or am I WvW in an alien world where alternate physics law applies?

Was he a Charr?
Everyone knows physics don’t apply to cats

I forgotten about this case. My slot 2 spell is 1200 range and my slot 5 spell is also 1200 range. Both are AOE spell. In numerous cases, I am able to fire my slot 2 spell but kept getting a ‘Out of range’ on my slot 5 spell on the exact SAME spot. I suspect that my slot 5 spell is actually not 1200 and I have been short changed. But again its works sometimes and not others.

Do we need to know which WvW world we playing so that we can determine the physics of it in order to play more effectively?

Must be an elementilist, on my 80 ele i get the same issues i’d recommend some more practice at wall top AoE’ing there is a definite art to getting in to range, and getting the spell off, and then retreating and waiting for your timer to come back up. Over all the LoS issues haven’t been very bad in my experience pretty comparable to other mmo games.