Guild Wars 2

Mortar: The global cooldown has been increased to 2 seconds, which is the actual rate of fire that it’s able to have.

Really? Can somebody from ANet please comment on when and what this skill is supposed to be used for, except wasting 30 skill points?

Its a placeholder until the gatlin gun elite kit comes out

This didn’t change the functionality of the Mortar at all. If you used it, you’d know that the GCD and fire rate didn’t match up. All they did was fix that.

The global cooldown used to be…essentially random, with a ceiling of two seconds or so and a floor of about a half-second.
No idea why it was like that. Or why it would take them fifteen months to resolve it. Do they have interns do their QA, or just coding on Turrets and Mortars?

makiface.3286:

This didn’t change the functionality of the Mortar at all. If you used it, you’d know that the GCD and fire rate didn’t match up. All they did was fix that.

I think the point he/she is making is that “fixing” the mortar is like giving a car with no engine a fresh paint job. Why bother?