Guild Wars 2

So since the latest patch this skill also evades. But is it just me or doenst it always work properly like it should? It seems to me that the evade doesnt start exatly when you use the skill but rather a bit later so you can still be interupted or immobilized at the beginning of this skills. Someone else also experience this?

Yes, I did.
Burning speed’s evade time is 0.75s while the animation time for the spell is about 0.9s. Therefore there will be a short time lapse (likely at the beginning of the animation) where you are not evading.
I have not yet tested to record the delay time before the evade starts. I’m quite inactive nowadays, but I’m sure someone like DEKeyz will find the time to delve into that

On a side note, I have been asking the devs to provide detailed real tooltips for a very long time. What I mean by this is that the cast time listed on the tooltips does not reflect the time your character will spend casting the spell at all. This is particularly important because it affects the perceived power of a lot of spells. Furthermore, cooldowns only start at the end of all casting animations for a spell, not just the time listed in the tooltip. These are some reasons why Anierna and Guanglai could never get their theorycrafting right :p Anyway the devs are not listening, so people carry on with their lives in ignorance …

The beginning of the skill does not evade. The easiest way to confirm this are Tequatl traps. They instantly down you if you are not evading while moving in the trap field. With a normal evade, you never get downed. With burning speed, I tried it several times, even from quite far away so mid animation should be evading while entering the field, and nope nothing worked. Every single time burning speed got overrules by the instant down trap.

Darox.8069:

On a side note, I have been asking the devs to provide detailed real tooltips for a very long time. What I mean by this is that the cast time listed on the tooltips does not reflect the time your character will spend casting the spell at all. This is particularly important because it affects the perceived power of a lot of spells. Furthermore, cooldowns only start at the end of all casting animations for a spell, not just the time listed in the tooltip. These are some reasons why Anierna and Guanglai could never get their theorycrafting right :p Anyway the devs are not listening, so people carry on with their lives in ignorance …

this is extremely interesting and sad at the same time… :\

Not enough people care about playing hardcore apparently

Want more interesting facts?
Burning speed’s range is not the 600 indicated in the tooltip. In fact it is closer to 400 and may be reduced or augmented with a number of factors that are hard to control for.
This matters because it means it is possible to swap to fire and land Sun spot before casting burning speed and hitting your target with the blast. Well you know, just one more reason why 6/6/2 D/F was always superior those LH builds

I can confirm that i CCed im middle burning speed.

rhodoc.2381:

I can confirm that i CCed im middle burning speed.

What kind of CC? If it is a stun like Engi shield 5, shocking aura, static field then you will always get cc’d by those evade doesn’t work on them. If your talking anything else I’m not sure been running across alot of mesmers today and BS if they get me with the iLeap blurred combo and I evade everything.

Also clone death traits are undodgeable/evadeable.