Guild Wars 2

Anyone else having issues getting #1 to be automatic?

yeah,

It seems to cancel itself fairly often. I’m not sure why but I noticed it rarely keeps going if I move or do a dodge roll at the moment.

think it’s because it isn’t targeted directly.

For me it stays autoattacking most of the time when i actually have a target in front of me, it starts failing when i move etc and my target isn’t in my face anymore. In other words: when my target is possibly out of bomb reach.

Think it just stops when it loses a target in direct range.

I did some quick testing using Forceful Explosives (Bombs and Mines have a larger explosion radius.) and while still within range, the auto attack didn’t persist.

Testing it now.
you’re right about the range, it stops even when in range.

from my testing it seems to be the fact if i face my target or not that stops it.

Simply turning or dodging while hitting a dummy stops it, even when still in reach.

Extremely silly for an aoe attack…

Not sure if there is more to it than that, haven’t tested it on anything else than a dummy.

The problem with auto-attack bomb kit is its a melee attack, so even with the bigger aoe radius trait you still have to be in melee range of your active target for the auto-attack to work. If you stand face-to-face with your target and close enough to see their nostril hairs it’ll happily auto-attack until you’re sick of it. Step backwards 3 feet and it’ll stop as you are no longer in melee range (even though the blast still hits your target).

Not really sure of a fix for this one unless they change the range slightly (to 250 or so) and make the animation of you throwing the bomb in front of you.