Guild Wars 2

Flamethrower now works on a fixed horizontal plane and fires straight ahead unless you have a target.

Previously it aimed based on camera direction and only refreshed its attack angle when you moved. Because we have a top down camera, people would often shoot through the ground if they didn’t know about having to manually aim.

The result of the change should be a lot less missed attacks for many players

I haven’t tested any changes to the FT conal damage. I will have to test that and see how it feels to me in an hour or two when I am in game again. If it is working better, I may use it a little more myself.

Im enjoying the FT very much now after the patch.

Are there any “viable” FT Builds?

definitely noticing the difference too in PvE, THANKS DEVS!!!!! XD

There is still a problem hitting objects, even when you aim at it point blank will it just keep missing.

Yeah, for structure attacks, flamethrower is still incapable of aiming up or down, meaning that some structures (notable recent observation: steam-beast portals) are simply completely un-hittable with flamethrower, forcing fallback of pistol or rifle autoattacks.

Crazy enough, I can move my camera angle and hit objects sometimes. I do it on reflex now whenever missmissmiss comes up.