Guild Wars 2

This skill is an absolute joke. It’s worthless. It is a DPS loss compared to Sword auto attack and it provides absolutely not utility because it’s impossible to control.

Stick a Symbol of Protection in its place and be done with it already.

What do you mean by impossible to control? I block (well telegraphed) ranged attacks with it pretty regularly. I was fighting 2v1 against a pair of Warriors the other day and one of them was Rifle in WvW, and I was consistently able to block every Kill Shot with it.

Naturally I still agree that it’s a terrible skill overall due to the slow projectiles, poor tracking, lack of predictive tracking, and lack of increased damage relative to autoattacking.

foofad.5162:

Naturally I still agree that it’s a terrible skill overall due to the slow projectiles, poor tracking, lack of predictive tracking, and lack of increased damage relative to autoattacking.

It sounds like we’re in agreement then.

Yes, but I’m still curious as to what you meant.

foofad.5162:

Yes, but I’m still curious as to what you meant.

Pretty much exactly what I said. Though I’ll admit saying it was “impossible” to use was somewhat hyperbolic when it is in fact very annoying and inconsistent to use, in my opinion.

Agreed it can be useful if fighting a ranged enemy to reflect but other than that it is worthless