Spectral Grasp
Has been discussed numerous times. Has the potential to be a great skill but is hindered by the issues you addressed above.
I tried using this skill once or twice when I realized how amazingly wonderful it could be, especially in WvW since I could pull someone from the other team directly in the middle of ours.
However not once did this skill work for me, first of all it’s a non homing projectile so it’s ridiculously easy to simply dodge. But most importantly the first time I finally managed to hit someone with it, they simply tipped over exactly where they were standing and weren’t pulled even an inch closer to me.
Oh but Delryn – you might say – there was probably something in the way, maybe a rock. It was a completely plain terrain with absolutely nothing in the way what so ever and it still didn’t work. This skill sucks completely as it currently is.
It has worked once out of about 10 tries for me. I tried pulling enemies off the walls in wvw and usually it either says obstructed, or it does nothing but goes on cooldown anyways. The one time it did work was awesome though
1/10 is not how a skill should work. The skill is completely unreliable and useless most of the time, and when it does work it feels like a blessing – a miracle. I’d rather have any other skill taking up space in my utility slot other than Spectral Grasp because I’m not oki with the 10% chance it might work IF it hits the target.