Guild Wars 2

I have a problem with this two skills, idk if it because of my ping or something else.

When the enemy (in range, almost in melee) is sidewalking i miss ALWAYS hammer 3 and almost all sword 3 hits. No dodge, no blind, no miss, just pass away like no target locked.

I only can landed hammer 3 if the enemy is running in a straight line from or to me. If him sidewalk the chain just pass without miss warning, block or dodge.

With sword 3 is worst, because even if the enemy is in melee range and walk away from me even in straight line i miss all the shoots when hi is in less 600 range, no out of range warning appears, is like the enemy run faster than shoots.

Is really hard land a full sword 3 for me, the enemy MUST STAND STILL. And very situational for land a hammer 3, if the enemy sidewalk i never hit him.

I play with 200/250 ping.

I’d say it’s partly ping, partly the skills themselves.

Sword 3 really has to be preceded with CC to be effective ( unless you’re using it to absorb ranged attacks ) – one trick is to activate #3 and then immediately use Judges Intervention to teleport on-top of your target, cooldowns permitting.
Hammer 3 is slow and telegraphed and easy to dodge ( again, unless coupled with JI )

A bad ping will compound the issue – have you tried Battle Ping or something equivalent?

It’s not the lag, it’s how the skills work. Both Hammer 3 and Sword 3 shoot projectiles at the current location of the target, which will almost always miss even if they are Chilled and walking sideways. Scepter auto-attack or Staff 2 will shoot projectiles based on a predictive path of the target, meaning they will fire ahead of them if they are moving.

Like Tarsius said, if you want Hammer/Sword 3 to hit, you’ll need to either immobilize, knockdown, or be in point-blank range to be successful.

Thanks for the answers.

I think arenanet need to rework that skills to work as predictive path, or make it skillshoots… Is very frustrating how it works and you need to immobilize with a class with almost nothing of CC….

urieldhynne.2743:

Thanks for the answers.

I think arenanet need to rework that skills to work as predictive path, or make it skillshoots… Is very frustrating how it works and you need to immobilize with a class with almost nothing of CC….

You can skill-shot hammer 3 if you deselect the target and have auto targeting turned off.