Guild Wars 2

It would be viable and also more useful having Feedback targetting the Mesmer who casts it if the Mesmer is not targetting an enemy, so that the skill would not be useless for those who aren’t targetting something, making the skill even more useful and entertaining while not relying on camera targeting like the old Feedback did.

There is a similar skill that function like this, the Elementalists’ healing skill, Arcane Brilliance, that hits/blasts around you when not targeted and hits/blasts around the enemy when targetted.

Thank you for your time.

tl;dr: If you don’t target anything Feedback happens on yourself

For how powerful feedback is when positioned just right, i do believe that it would be a little too strong being able to cast it on yourself

Beside we do have a revive trait that cast feedback over ourselves when we start reviving, any easier placement of it than that would make it too powerful i believe

(And yes i am saying that as one with a mesmer as one of my 2 mains and LOVE using feedback, having it on my bar 90% of the time)

What about ground targeting?

Ground targeting would be amazing.

I feel like it would be too powerful with both Ground Targeting or self-targeting.

Being able to drop it onto a choke point is ridiculous. And yourself standing on that choke isn’t too hard.

I remember pre-patch having a noob-tube build for fighting the Molten Duo Fractal if my group couldn’t ever survive. It was a “solo” build meant for taking your time. Traited Blink Portal Feedback with Mirror Heal and Medic’s Feedback (it had a 10s cooldown back then). Sit on a dead NPC or ally and pop the Feedback then proceed to GS auto attack. If Bers jumps on you, blink away (don’t forget to drop an entrance portal across the fight from you) and continue auto attacking. Maintain Feedback to prevent Firestorm from hurting you. If Bers is about to blink onto you, cast Feedback on him, then blink onto Feedback after he blinks onto you. Use Portal if you’re panicking (or trapped in flame circles). Swap to Staff2 if you have no more blinks. Mirror when necessary.

Suuuuuper slow, but it works. Also you can retrait and change your gear after Bers dies since you have about 10s to OOC and retrait.

If you could just ground-target a Feedback you wouldn’t need to focus on as much stuff, not that that means anything and I’m just tangenting super hard right now so bye bye.

Would become a much more useful skill.

Velho.7123:

Would become a much more useful skill.

If so (and i totally agree with you) it would become at least borderline OP, if not outright OP, as it is already one of the very very usefull skills on mesmer (heck in the whole game as well)

I would prefer for it to be ground-targeted. Needing a target makes it awkward to use at the best of times and near useless in other cases. Before the change, I use to spawn it right over the zerg during Tequatl so it would reflect almost all of the tentacle attacks. Now it’s either one or nothing as spawning it on Teqqy’s foot is pointless.

Also, I don’t consider ground-targeting OP as it doesn’t go as high as guardian’s wall and that has ground targeting.

I was very upset to find the targeting change to Feedback, I was getting good at aiming it without a target too. I would say revert the change or do as the op said and cast over the mesmer. Heck it would even fall inline with the Medic’s Feedback trait that way…

Crossplay’s problem is my problem.

I’ve found multiple boss fights where previously feedback was useful, but apparently no longer is because the boss is just too big for dropping it on the boss to be useful.
Feedback needs an off-target option of some kind, whether that be self-placement, ground placement, or even the past method.