Guild Wars 2

Wouldn’t it be great to Flamethrower 2’nd skill – Flame Blast be ground targeted skill like elementalist’s Phoenix ?
Both skills have much in common. They are AoE, Blast Finisher, slow flying time and they deal damage when they are passing through enemies.

Problems with current iterration of FlameBlast:
- Projectile tends do dissapear when hit the ground – meaning no damage, no blast finisher
- You need to wait and observe projectiile when it hit enemy then detonate it – meaning you can’t do anything else while casting it and there is lot room for player mistake
- It’s hard to effectivly blast small combo fields under player’s charracter

Solution is super easy – make it like Phoenix (but without comeback route). You simply ground target right behind enemy and you deal 2x damage, or under your feet for blast finisher. While projectile is in mid-air you can do anything you want, you don’t need to wait for projectile to reach enemy, it will explode when it reach it’s pointer. Having ground targeted skill means also it won’t dissapear when hit ground, it will keep it’s flight distance.

Simply idea, but it would fix lots of flamethrower problems.

I’ve lived with the issues, tried to prevent them as good as I could and I just accepted it the way it is. Your idea sounds just awesome – the change you request would surely be a huge QoL buff.

I can only see it to be worse when you change your mind about when to blow it up while it’s midair or when you want to hit somone in midair or max range on a higher layer. Any other situation, your change makes the skill better.

I greatly support this idea, it’s pretty great!

- Ziggy

With the Dragon’s Tooth change, this would be a great follow-up.