Guild Wars 2

Echoing Eruption: This skill is no longer able to multistrike targets. Torment duration has been increased from 6 seconds to 10 seconds. Torment stacks applied have been increased from 3 to 5. This skill will no longer automatically track the revenant’s target and will instead fire the skill forward.

The recent changes to mace skill 3 was a great step forward for condi rev, however the actual use of this skill compared to before is severely worse. I know I saw once someone mention that it would simply be a skill issue of using but imo in actual practice this skill now is very clunky very easy to miss with especially in a pvp setting I’ve honestly only found im able to connect with this skill after some form of hard cc or someone is simply inexperienced with moving.

I hope anet takes a look at this skill and possibly considers reverting or changing the tracking/targeting of it because atm it’s not user friendly or a skill that requires smart use it just feels clunky.

It has a hitbox of a Hanzo arrow, as long as target is in front of your character it shouldn’t miss. It now does really significant damage when you think about it so I don’t mind the “aiming” nature of the skill. And I can finally blast fields I want without sudden turns mid-cast.

The one improvement I could definitely suggest to ArenaNet is something I requested in the first place – making this skill a skillshot with a skillshot indicator. It should keep it’s generous hitbox, but skillshot aiming instead of aiming with character model would be more intuitive and practical.

now i have to predict enemy movement and hit the ground with it
if you do that you will hit it anyways

sure its seems more harder but practice and you will do fine

As far as tracking and non-tracking goes, I think there are downsides to either approach. I personally find it easier to deal with positioning with a non-tracking skill instead of having to potentially de-select and re-select a target with a tracking skill.

I find that the mace 3 skill is not hard to land if you know what you combo it with. If you notice, the axe 4 skill, frigid blitz, places you behind the target and facing them. Use axe 4 and then use mace 3. This will allow you to easily land your mace 3 skill. Both mace 3 and axe 4 have similar cooldowns, only 2 seconds difference. Additionally, axe 4 is unblockable. This means that you can get around direction oriented blocks such as the DH virtue shield and land mace 3 from behind.

As it is, I am fine with mace 3.