Guild Wars 2

I recorded this quick clip to demonstrate. No time dilation was used. Forgive the quality, I just wanted to throw up a quick and dirty clip. The video is exactly 20.07 seconds long but for whatever reason YouTube rounds up in their time count. Feel free to record a video of your own to double check it’s accuracy.

16 attacks in a 20 second time frame is 1.25 attacks. As noted in the video’s description, even if you add in a 17th attack just to account for “error” that’s still only 1.18 attacks/second. At the listed attack speed in game you should be getting exactly 26.7 attacks in a 20 second time frame.

That’s WAAAAAAY beyond the realm of “a small error.”

Me thinks that ANet was addressing the wrong “graphical error” with their last patch.

I think almost every skill activation time is incorrect, at least the auto attack ones.
E.g. the Shortbow fires every 0.52 seconds, if I’m informed correctly most melee weapons swing every 0.7 seconds or 1.4 seconds if it’s a lengthy final attack.

Btw: The Longbow had that slow attack rate since release.

I’ve had skin since I was born.

I think you’ve got your numbers backwards. 1 attack per second is 20 attacks in 20 seconds. 1.25 attacks per second is 25 attacks in 20 seconds.

.75 attacks per second is 15 attacks in 20 seconds, or 1.25 seconds per attack.

I’m not sure why Arenanet would list the cast time as .75 seconds though/

The attack activation is ~.75 seconds, but there’s an after-cast delay from you doing the arrow release and ‘reload’ animations before you start another activation. While vaguely misleading, the activation time is .75 while total attack interval is ~1.25 seconds.

It is a lot more noticeable if you step through a video of the animation frame-by-frame.

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I think you’ve got your numbers backwards. 1 attack per second is 20 attacks in 20 seconds. 1.25 attacks per second is 25 attacks in 20 seconds.

.75 attacks per second is 15 attacks in 20 seconds, or 1.25 seconds per attack.

I’m not sure why Arenanet would list the cast time as .75 seconds though/

While I agree he should be saying 1.25/1.18 seconds per attack (not the other way around), I must point out that 1.25 seconds per attack would be 0.8 attacks/second.

A rate of 0.75 attacks/second would result in a cast time of 1.33 seconds.

15 attacks at 1.25 seconds each is 18.75 seconds.

Just to avoid further confusion :9.

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