Guild Wars 2

Hi,

I’ve been playing a lot with the new Search and Rescue in wvw and am absolutely loving it. One of the best rez skills in game right now imho.

At least when it works…

Now i haven’t managed to find a pattern, but for some reason, it doesn’t seem to work sometimes. I can see a downed ally in range, pop the shout, yet nothing happens. The skill has activated though as sometimes, during the 8s window, another ally goes down and the skill correctly catches the new downed.

I haven’t found yet why the first person in range sometimes doesn’t get picked up. I tried pet swapping before SaR to ensure that the pet was alive, healthy and not under any CC in case that was the issue, but the failed rezzes still happen. Anyone has an idea? Is it a silly failed LoS check maybe?

The range is based off of the pet, if the pet is not in the 1,200 range it won’t work properly. Best bet is wait to swap till your sure your in 1,200 range and then cast SaR. Funny that you can actually pull players to you from over 2,000+ range due to this, screws with ppl in pvp lol.

Tip for Anet:

Hover over S&R icon with mousepointer on the skillbar, show range on minimap.

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Because of this games sometimes quite rough (or non existant) visual feedback, weird mechanics and other things, you’ll often wonder if a skill is bugged, while the real reason is you didn’t use it right, and the reason for that is either lacking description and/or some of the things mentioned above. Things could improve a lot when it comes to this.

Hmm, i’ll try some more, but i had the impression i had the pet within 1200 range at all times, the staff 1 skill being a handy laser range-finder device, and i keep the pets on passive so they’re always near, with even some pet-swapping involved as a double check.

The hovering on icon showing range would be neat. It could even show up as a targeting circle on the main screen.

I’ve actually encountered this more and more lately, pet could be standing right next to ally auto attacking a baddie and not drag my ally to me. I’ve also used the skill, it delay for 3 seconds, and bring me a dead body (happened twice that I remember).