Guild Wars 2

Hi,

I’ve been noticing something weird lately. I’ll try to explain: when switching kits or going to downed state in combat I find myself often cancelling the first skill I cast if pressed too quickly (without reason). For example: I get downed in fractals > quickly use grappling line on the ghost > it doesn’t cast and i’m stuck with a short cooldown again. I’ve lately returned to pvp and have noticed it happening a lot and in other circumstances. I posted this here because, as far as I can tell, it has been happening only with my engineer. Is it a bug, lag, a dumb feature of some sort? Advices?

holy kitten this has been happening heaps to me, i usually cancel alotta skills like acid bomb and what not but lately its been happening when its not ment to and i just thought maybe this is what its like to not have bad ping.

Glad i’m not the only one. What bugs me is that it didn’t happen before. It’s something more recent; from a couple of months, I think.

this happens to me even on non downed skills , wich initially i thought it was due to being dazed in wvw but then i noticed it happening on pve as well

Heya!

About that short cd you get in fotm if you want to cc the Avengers as Engineer: This happens because some skills can’t be cast backwards. Our downed cc is one of those skills. If the Avenger spawns perfectly inside of you, you are like “obstructed” or rather “too close” to the target, thus you cant use the skill.

Imagine it like this: When you walk away from a mob and want to use a skill like Rifle or Elixier Gun #2. You’ll get a short cd, because you are not facing the enemy and can’t cast that skill on them.

You can prevent to get finished by an fractal Avenger even if he spawns directly inside of you by not targeting anything and use your downed cc. That way you will just throw your hook straight forward and because the Avenger is inside of you, you will hit ’em.

Greez!

That makes a lot of sense. I’ll try it out. I was positive it happened from afar in some cases, could be the high ping giving a poor perspective.

This is the reason I kittening hate engineers, I main engi for 4 years now and I’m sick of not being able to use my skills whenever my targets are too close…. Easy way to fix this ? kittening remove the kittening 3seconds CD each time it cancels the skill..

That’s not an Engineer specific issue. Every profession suffers from this.

Mostly engineers, it’s very crucial not to be able to use overcharged shot or net