Okay, so I’ve been messing around with my alts, and recently got around to doing some personal story missions with my Sylvari Thief. I was doing one mission when the game gave me an environmental weapon: a vine I pulled off of a jail cell. It had an autoattack where you whipped a single target at medium range from you.
It hit more reliably and at wider angles than Lightning Whip. The character’s cast animation was identical.
This is just silly. There’s no good reason that Lightning Whip should be as unreliable as it is when there’s an example of another whip skill in the game that has no real issues.
Just sayin’.