Guild Wars 2

Change point blank shot to interact with the target the same way short bow skill 3, quick shot does – you instantly turn towards your target and shoot him.

The reason for this is that this skill fails and goes on cooldown if you use it and your target is slightly off to the side of you (this is most noticeable against thieves).
This makes it a gamble to use it when the target is within 350ish distance of you (as he may just strafe or use a movement ability and make the skill just fail), which happens to be the distance this skill is most effective.

This change would give longbow some reliable kiting options against classes that can flank alot and close distance easily – how many times have you tried to use point blank shot on a warrior who is “dancing” around you wile chopping you with an axe, and you use pbs to get him off of you but nothing happens because he happens to have gone to the side of you and now you have 15 sec cd on your skill.

This isn’t needed for point blank shot imo simply because it’s an amazingly powerful offensive tool in addition to the defensive value of the skill.

That said, Hunter’s Shot could certainly use this adjustment as it’s simply too easy for melee to avoid the shot and the stealth is simply too critical of a defensive cooldown on an already limited weapon.

Point blank shot doesn’t need that, it would be OP.

That is actually not how SB #3 works. SB#3 has an effect “Usable while retreating” (or something like that) which is basically “You don’t have to turn around before firing”.

When using point blank shot, just release any mouse keys pressed, stop doing what you are doing and use the skill.

That is, don’t have anything else pressed (including mouse) when you press #4 (Point blank shot). The character then turns automatically towards the target.

It’s an instant knockback on a reasonable cooldown with no tell or cast time. I don’t think it needs to be made any easier to use. =P