Guild Wars 2

Thanks to its super slow speed, it has a very high chance to miss and usually becomes obstructed for seemingly no reason. I get it has slow speed to give the enemy a chance to escape but this is too slow for a game where you can instantly shadowstep/teleport/leap over a distance of over 900 in a second. It goes so slow that it will not reach someone running away with swiftness if they were already at around 700 distance units away from you. I feel there is some unbalance in this regard, and I ask you take a second look at net shot.

You have a point. However, using Supply Crate (1200 range I think) at the right time can enable you to get a hit with Net Shot. It is somewhat hard to do though.

so i need to land a stun to land a immobilize…that is like needing a stun breaker for rocket boots. >.<

Pretty much, yeah. It takes good timing to pull off though and assumes that you are not fighting a skilled thief or d/d ele. I won’t recommend this for most engs, as the CD is too long. Eng just doesn’t have enough gap closers, imo.

Lol Net shot…tsk tsk.

This has been an issue since beta. Due to the slow travel speed of the projectile its easy to dodge, and using it on a target thats running away there is a good risk that your target outruns the net if he is far enough away.

And it also seems to have a fairly large “hitbox” of sorts. Where is very easily collides with anything and just returns Obstructed. Little elevations in the terrain, or clutter for example.

JudgeD.5673:

You have a point. However, using Supply Crate (1200 range I think) at the right time can enable you to get a hit with Net Shot. It is somewhat hard to do though.

Probably but we shouldn’t be relying on an elite just to be able to land it

Personally, I’d be happy if it fired in the right direction. I’m not sure how the trajectory is calculated but it consistently misses anyone that’s strafing (kind of like the scepter 1 attack on guardians). Hell, it would be better as a ground targeting skill since then we could take into account travel time and trajectory ourselves.

It should be renamed Net Snail.

They’d have to give it a long cooldown in that case or it would be OP, IMO.

Punkins.2087:

They’d have to give it a long cooldown in that case or it would be OP, IMO.

Depends on how much they would increase it by, but I’m sure they can make it faster without making it op since net shot can’t even be considered reliable as it is.

Kalan.9705:

It should be renamed Net Snail.

Or Parachute Shot.

lunyboy.8672:

Kalan.9705:

It should be renamed Net Snail.

Or Parachute Shot.

Or Net Shot.

Get it? Because that’s what it is.

Sometimes I crack myself up.

Maybe Not Shot.

Pressing dodge should be much stronger than pressing a direction key, that is how this game is envisioned. Net shot usually fails that evaluation.