Guild Wars 2

I try to use Static Discharge and it doesn’t shoot to the target.

It’s always shoot off to the direction my character facing and most of the time it shoot to the ground.

Is this what it supposed to be ?

It acts in that manner when you use nontargeting tool belt skills. Targeting ones should go right to the target with SD as well.

dancingmonkey.4902:

It acts in that manner when you use nontargeting tool belt skills. Targeting ones should go right to the target with SD as well.

Thanks for reply !

Then it not worth taking then because my build is full of eilxir toss …

Static Discharge and how it works a huge disaster of mechanics and programming.

For PvP use it only when you got toolbelts skills that aim for something, like rifle turret. Everything with a ground targeting or no target at all will miss (shot in the direction you are looking, mostly, the ground).

For dungeons you just can hug the enemy and it never misses. But for fotm … haha … heh … better don’t touch that trait at all :| … I prefer the free stunbreaker over that buggy trait.

I don’t even want to start about how it’s damage changing works :<

Ye this skill should have been changed to always shooting the nearest target (in a certain range) to make it work with any toolbelt skill. Current implementation is just stupid.

But I suggested that many times before and nothing changes. Also should use the animation of ele scepter autoattack (aka an actual discharging lightning instead of some flying bolt of elecricity). They just don’t have enough resources for such changes no matter how much sense they make. They don’t even have enough resources to read this.

Dojo.1867:

Ye this skill should have been changed to always shooting the nearest target (in a certain range) to make it work with any toolbelt skill. Current implementation is just stupid.

This change would kitten off a lot of SD users, myself included. I think making it allways fire at your selected target is a better simple solution. A more advance solution would be to have diffrent effects depending on what type of skill it is:

• Current implementation for targetable skills such as Suprice Shot, Analyze, etc.
• AoE around you for self aplication and point blank AoE skills like Regenerating Mist , Detonate X Turret and Super Speed
• AoE around impact area for skills that are ground targets like toss Elixirs and Orbital Strike at the moment of impact.
• Some special cases for special toolbelt skills, for example a non bouncing shot for every attack with Incendiary Ammo or lightning strikes on every mine detonation with Mine Field

It wouldn’t be problematic at all imo, given that it jumps. In very rare occasions it would not hit what you want to hit and if it adds the requirement to position yourself tactically then good!

Also would be a stealth counter. I am fine with your suggestion aswell though.

In PvE you can still make it hit your target by manually aiming non-targetable skills at least. Trying to do that in PvP is usually a waste of time, but sometimes it works.

It should hit the target you have selected even if its an aoe.

It should just aim for what you’ve selected – simple as that. No “closest targets”, no special voodoo and magic stuff, just what you’ve selected.

And the damage should stay the same all the time – really annoys me T_T

Edit: plus static discharge interrupts queues since the patch, very annoying :/