Guild Wars 2

After running Daredevil in open beta events and finding great use out of Bandit’s defense I feel the skills counterattack animation should be given a cancel.

Bandit’s defense wiki: https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Bandit%27s_Defense

The skill functions as a continuous block for attacks outside of the range or the counter attack, which is great. This puts the skill in a good place and makes it a worthy choice for players in PvP.

The downside do this is if you intend to use the block on a ranged attack while the attacker is in range of counter attack -you will lose control of your character and will begin the counter attack animation.

Doing so can leave the player in a bad position and/or dead from other players. Furthermore other players can attack into your block only to block themselves from your counterattack then putting again the user in a bad place.

In my opinion it would be a great quality of life improvement if the counter attack of Bandits defense was stow-able -i.e. able to be cancelled using the stow weapon key bind.

So much agree.
I loved this ability during my time playing in the BW; but found the same issue you did. Blocking a ranged attack with the person being out of ranged of the counter pretty much punished me.

I love for the counter attack to be ranged.. but even just animation cancel-able, like you suggested, would be perfect.

Yeah, I like the idea of the counter attack being a leap but players should be able to decide if they’d like to fully commit to it or not, while still using the block as a block.

They could fix it by giving control of the kick to the player similar to revenants Duelists preparation (Sword 4). Basically turn the flip over skill into an active not passive.

ive been mentioned this in a bug report after BWE2. hope they fix this till release.

Ragion.2831:

They could fix it by giving control of the kick to the player similar to revenants Duelists preparation (Sword 4). Basically turn the flip over skill into an active not passive.

Yeah it would be awesome if it was a flipover skill!

Agreed. There were several times where I would pop this for some multi hit attacks and I would die from the follow up hits while my thief was trying to do the counter kick.

I’d like it to be a flipover skill. Ranged Shadowstep Knockdown counter would be a big bonus though. =333