Guild Wars 2

I wonder why this skill isn’t a Cone attack instead of straight line. Maybe half the wide cone range of Guardian’s Staff 1? I dunno but I really think there should be something done with Shockwave and Gust and I think coning their attack is the solution. Maybe lowering the range to 600-900 and increasing it to a cone could fix both skill’s issues.

Anyone got any better ideas?

Well guardian staff 1 is terrible so I’m not sure you are using the right benchmark here

I was bothered about these, and they’re still pretty hit-and-miss, but I’ve come to love the 1200 range, especially on Shock Wave. Use the terrain right and you can land an easy immob to chain into.

Gust... I agree I’d like this to be a shorter-range blowout attack, but when combined with an immobilise it’s still pretty useful. Point-blank, you mostly need to count your enemy’s dodges and cripple/chill them.

I’d like it if Gust hit more reliably. Sometimes it doesn’t even hit 2 enemies that are on top of eachother. Your suggestion would make it more useful to me.

Darox.8069:

Well guardian staff 1 is terrible so I’m not sure you are using the right benchmark here

Well I was giving an example :P. Our Ice/Fire breath is to narrow and the guardian staff 1 is too wide.!

Looking at the new Air Blast on Engineer’s Flamethrower I hope they might add this for us.

my suggestion for gust, pasted form a post awhile back
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gust simply needs to be cast at point blank range or on a non-moving target.. they even reworked it and sometimes it is buggy.. it’s good for repositioning npc
but for all its uses let’s look at something else, icy ground is a very overpowered snowball mayhem skill.. if modified correctly (900-1k range, 200 for a smaller cast area than some ground targeted skills, and an underpowered launch 200) and obviously this would be in air and not leave a field on the ground.. this would become a great defensive addition to staff, activating on the spellcasters location would be a prized interrupt against all those distance closing stun spammers…
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as for shockwave, it’s pretty good actually.. it even rides up/down walls and terrain.. used to be able to cast it turn direction and unleash it on a target, but they changed that.. you have to be facing your target or allow the auto target to reposition your character, otherwise it interrupts itself.. like lightning surge z_z