Guild Wars 2

GS5 is part of a very select category of skills that I’m going to go ahead and say were programmed into the game as Ground Target Cone Shaped AoE skills.

Heres the issue: Some guy decided long ago this category shouldn’t exist, and they did a coding shortcut so that it would just act as if you had double clicked the skill icon when you activated the skill, skipping the ground target indicator. As a result these skills never turn to face your target mid-cast even when your character model does, making them very awkward to look at and land. If you want another example of this behavior currently in the game, look at fire grab.

Basically, fix the code on all skills with this behaviour. If it’s meant to be targeted, make them target. If you want us to be able to choose where they go, let us ground target them. It’s very awkward for people that move their camera alot to have a few skills tied directly to the camera facing instead of the character facing.

You are a GENIUS ! (:

AGH that totally explains fire grab, the ele flame and frost breaths, and this skill! I KNEW it was following my camera direction (and yeah it royally screws me up)

Totally agree, very problematic.

This change has been long due. I hope they change this.

so how about they let us aim them like the guardian Longbow skill 3?
I’d love having more controll over it.

I also think mesmers want the same with shield 5

So how does one aim it currently, allowing for whatever shoddy system it’s using at the moment?

Just let us groundtarget the skill 5

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AGH that totally explains fire grab, the ele flame and frost breaths, and this skill! I KNEW it was following my camera direction (and yeah it royally screws me up)

Just a note in case anybody is confused: Drake’s breath and Cone of Cold will continually update their facing as they are channeled spells, and will not display the buggy behavior. The exact mechanism of the bug is this:

1: Your character turns to face your target before you begin the cast.

2: Cone AoE skills target in the direction of your camera and not your character.

Note that you’ll only be able to tell the difference when you disconnect the camera facing from the character facing, which is why it’s noticeable when you target an enemy and strafe around, as your character will face the enemy but the skill will cast where your camera is facing (potentially away from the enemy)

To play around this bug in the meantime you must either manually control your camera via the RMB while using any of these skills (as this will lock your character orientation to your camera), or hope that neither your nor your target strafe.

And I do mean to say bug. I’ve submitted bug reports on this and I encourage everybody to submit a report too. The more attention we can get the better, as this issue is pretty widespread across many professions.