Guild Wars 2

Hi there,

Im going to make this quick and suggest a functionality improvement this trait desperately needs.

1. Gold target marker, the red target just isnt practical when fighting against a sea of red names especially when enemys start going down and the downed symbol looks just like the target marker. Its very difficult to know what you targeted and where that target is moving.

Removed the other 2 suggestions, Cogbyrn thanks for the tips. It seems like you can control the trajectory of life blast when you dont have a target. I ended up taking off auto attack on life blast and going to experiment with it. This extra option is nice, I just wish Anet would polish it a little more :\

Good suggestions, +1

Life Blast can fire without a target. Imagine a crosshair on the middle of your screen, then pan your camera angle down with right-click and use it. Your projectile will shoot out over the ground, and if you connect with someone’kittenbox appropriately, it will do damage.

This is much easier with Life Blast than with Lich Form’s auto, because that projectile is really, really weird. It seems to fly way above people’s heads and hit them, and if you fire it through an enemy, it misses. However, LB is definitely something you can play around with and try just manually firing into a mob.

However, for your first point, spot on. Trying to find the red target arrow in a mob is far more difficult than it has to be.

I really wish there was a cross hair assist that I could use. It’s hard targetting someone in the blob when I am just using staff aa. Wouldn’t mind a cross hair over having to target enemies for my attacks. Like how melee have it easy.

Cogbyrn.7283:

Life Blast can fire without a target. Imagine a crosshair on the middle of your screen, then pan your camera angle down with right-click and use it. Your projectile will shoot out over the ground, and if you connect with someone’kittenbox appropriately, it will do damage.

This is much easier with Life Blast than with Lich Form’s auto, because that projectile is really, really weird. It seems to fly way above people’s heads and hit them, and if you fire it through an enemy, it misses. However, LB is definitely something you can play around with and try just manually firing into a mob.

However, for your first point, spot on. Trying to find the red target arrow in a mob is far more difficult than it has to be.

Does LB pierce after its 1st target when firing it without target? I know I can fire it without target but ive seen it shoot diagonal into the ground il try the camera angle thing but it still seems rather impractical in intense situations.

If you have the trait, the LB will pierce, regardless of how it is fired. If your target is in front, the reason it often doesn’t pierce behind is because the trajectory of the shot is funky. If you are too close, it shoots up into outer space. If you’re a long ways away, it’ll often work fine whichever one you have targeted. It’s just easiest to pierce when you choose the rear target because you know the line that the LB will take between you and that target much better than the one between the target and the rest of LB’s range.

Firing from the hip isn’t the most ideal solution, but it can be done. It will hit whatever it touches, pierce through targets, etc, just like a normal cast with a target. And again, I wouldn’t recommend trying it in Lich form, but it’s easier in DS.

Il test it when im home, but i think Il stick to trying my best to choose proper targets in blobs. Really think the gold marker is needed though. Yeah life blast sure is funky!!

Thanks for the tips, finally got around to testing it at the pvp golems. It seems like you control Life blast trajectory with the right mouse button like you said. Very odd Anet would never mention this to players. A combination of both target and non target life blast will be useful to me so thank you! Going to have to get used to not having an overhead view lol.

I feel like ive been missing out on so much :O

I’m not sure controlling projectiles like this isn’t something they “want” players to do, and it often doesn’t make sense. The only other ability I’ve ever done anything like this with is untargeted Bladetrail, but that skims the ground automatically and doesn’t require tilting the camera.

I think Life Blast is actually the only ability in the game this is remotely useful on, so I’m not surprised they didn’t really advertise it. However, I’m glad you’re finding use for it, as I do it fairly frequently against classes that stealth after I get an immob off, or in Shadow Refuge. They know to dodge the Mark, but popping some random LBs in the mix is worth it if even one hits, in my opinion.

Happy hunting!

Thanks for tips, It would also be good if they allowed us to select different and more visible mouse cursors. Sometimes I lose the position of mouse cursor in the chaos of zergs.