Guild Wars 2

The 2 pistol skill seems to only hit the full amount of times rarely. It seems to only hit fully when you are right up close and last time i checked pistol should be a melee range weapon.
Why is this? No other class channel ability like this misses this consistently.
Is this working as intended or broken?

Pistol 2 has a spread. I think this spread increases if you take rifled barrels to increase range. It’s better to think of it as a cone attack than anything else.

It used to be a single target volley.

Now its cone based..

I guess that’s to make it AoE, but I just think it fails.

When you hit Number 2, your character suddenly develops Parkinson’s.

Yep, too be fair I find this just to be quite dumb…

It’s like a 100b War missing 50-75% of the 100b hits.
Or even a Pistoldi… Pistolwhip thief missing with 50-75% of the hits… Which I wouldn’t mind but still…

I love pistol n I love conditions… But when they change the hardest hitting attack with Pistol… I’ll keep the rifle for now hope Anet changes it back sooner or later… Hopefully sooner rather than later.

If you move while firing, you’ll end up with more success using the attack. I’m not sure why, but the darts seem to have an easier time that way.

That’s because of the spread if both parties are moving there’s a larger chance to hit because of being “Led” into the stray bullets.

This ain’t an FPS so we shouldn’t have to lead our shots just to make them hit. :S If I wanted that I’d be playing Planetside 2 which is an FPS. xD

Now we yust need to apply that crosshair mod.. and voila, a shooter in a nuttshell XD

You need to use it from close range now for full effect. I often find myself dodging mid animation tho, need to unlearn that :/

The darts follow your cone of vision (much like the flamethrower) when you fire while moving, as long as they’re in the cone you should be ok.