[Bug] Symbol of Energy ground-targetting

[Bug] Symbol of Energy ground-targetting

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Posted by: Bear on the job.6273

Bear on the job.6273

I haven’t played the game for about 2 months, and just came back with the Living World update…so I don’t know when this broke.

Currently, if you are using instant cast ground-targetting, and you fire Symbol of Energy at a location, the arrow will follow your mouse cursor as you move it until the casting animation is finished. For all other ground-targetting skills in the game, once you click the button to activate the skill, the ability will lock on the location you have selected.

This makes the ability a huge liability in PVP and WvW now, as you have to hold your mouse over the location until your casting animation has completed and the arrow is in the air. Have any devs said anything about this bug?

[Bug] Symbol of Energy ground-targetting

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Posted by: Lahmia.2193

Lahmia.2193

It’s not a bug. And its not just for Symbol of Energy. It is actually very beneficial to ground targeted skills when fighting moving foes, once you get used to it. Rather than predicting where the foe will go next, you can follow them with your mouse for incredible precision.

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[Bug] Symbol of Energy ground-targetting

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Posted by: Bear on the job.6273

Bear on the job.6273

It’s not a bug. And its not just for Symbol of Energy. It is actually very beneficial to ground targeted skills when fighting moving foes, once you get used to it. Rather than predicting where the foe will go next, you can follow them with your mouse for incredible precision.

Is there a way to disable it? I really hate it when basic game mechanics like this are changed, and they don’t give you the option of using the old method…

What you described is fine for some situations, if you want to focus on a target and follow them. But it makes other situations impossible, like firing a shot at a location and quickly snapping your camera to a different direction to fire at another target. This change makes an already slow skill even slower and more cumbersome…

[Bug] Symbol of Energy ground-targetting

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Posted by: Lahmia.2193

Lahmia.2193

Tested with Normal, Fast with Range Indicator and Instant. It only happens with Instant.

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[Bug] Symbol of Energy ground-targetting

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Posted by: Bear on the job.6273

Bear on the job.6273

Confirmed this is a bug from the thread here:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Ground-targeted-abilities-retargeting-Merged/first#post6276254

Seems to be related to the “allow skill retargetting” option, any ground targetting abilities with a cast time.