Guild Wars 2

bluri.2653:

when in gods name would you ever backstab midair lmao are you for real

I think midair means the dagger, not the player.
And for me: I could never really make the stow weapon work – too many buttons. And I don’t know why I should go out of my way to be able to play this game halfway decently.

Jana.6831:

I could never really make the stow weapon work – too many buttons.

I was trying to stow my Backstab yesterday to test the cooldown. I could NOT get it to stow. I can stow Shadow Shot. I can jump-skip Infiltrator’s Return, I can Heartseeker through Black Powder 4 times or Smoke Screen 7 times… but why can I not stow Backstab??? :-(

Back stab is already a 1/4 cast time.

bluri.2653:

Menyus.4610:

Its kinda hard to cancel a bakcstab mid air aint u think? after u called it oh its easy

when in gods name would you ever backstab midair lmao are you for real

When ur skill is in midair sherlock

After some more testing of stowing Backstab, can someone please tell me what practical use it has?

You have to stow IMMEDIATELY after you press the Backstab button. And if you can pull that off, you should have never hit the attack button in the first place. Besides, it adds a half second cooldown by itself. I’m not seeing use in it at all.

Kageseigi.2150:

After some more testing of stowing Backstab, can someone please tell me what practical use it has?

You have to stow IMMEDIATELY after you press the Backstab button. And if you can pull that off, you should have never hit the attack button in the first place. Besides, it adds a half second cooldown by itself. I’m not seeing use in it at all.

It’s a bad advice trying to hide the cooldown by doing something unnecessary as a diversion.

The cooldown is there whether you stow your weapon or not. In practicality, it’s only a 1/2s CD after the casting time and after-cast delay (aka “global CD”).