Guild Wars 2

Please. Remove the horrible aftercast-delay. You attack slower with body shot than with autoattacks. Please, fix it. The ability is currently useless because of the aftercast.

I never use it, lol. It seems I can just use cloak and dagger for stealth and vulnerability with my p/d build and body shot is just completely wasted.

The only way i can remember using it is to add additional condition(vulnerability) to the bleeds to reduce the chance of skills that remove random condition to remove the bleeds exactly.

Yep, only time I use it is if I somehow find myself full init and not in range for a CnD (which is super rare) and then just to try to keep bleeds from dropping.

I never use it, it’s way too slow, weak, and boring, imo it should be replaced with something interesting

I never use it, it’s way too slow, weak, and boring, imo it should be replaced with something interesting

Exactly. Slow, weak and boring. If they at least removed the slowness…it feel soooooooo awkward, it does less damage than a basic shot AND is slower to boot. Feels bad man.

It’s initiative better spent elsewhere. Don’t waste your time using Body Shot. A mere 5% damage for 7.5 seconds, and it cost only 1 less initiative than an Unload? You will do more DPS not using it.

IMO it should be replaced entirely, as least with something interesting like:

Careless Fire: Fire an inaccurate shot at a target, bleeding the target and inflicting a random effect.
Head shot: Critical.
Arm shot: Weakness.
Leg Shot: Cripple.
Body Shot: Vulnerability.

I use P/P in PVE while in party to DPS single targets, and I only use 3,1 and the occasional 4/5. 2 were never touched.

Yeah, I never use this. If I didn’t need my 2 key for my short bow I’d unbind it altogether. There’s really no point unless there are 40 players DPSing the same target. Even then I doubt I’d bother.

Yeah its a waste should have given us a poison or something instead.

This skill is actually meant for fights, where you nuke a single target with many people. If they can do, let’s say, 100k damage in 5 seconds (boss fight), 2 quick body shots give 10 000 damage for 6 initiative from a safe AoE-free distance.

So, this skill has some use, but I don’t like it so much either. Anyway, thief need some kind of reliable vulnerability without traiting for it, so there must be a skill like this one.

TheGuy.3568:

Yeah its a waste should have given us a poison or something instead.

Agreed, they should simply add a poison or bleed on top of the effect to make it semi useful

Agree, in every single set, Body Shot is the worst skill. In P/P the damage of it (including the damage increased when using Unload after it) isn’t worthe the initiative at all. On P/D you’re relatively comfortable at semi-melee range and will use Cloack and Dagger much more to get those Sneak Attacks. BS is only (moderately) useful on epic boss fights as you will increase the damage done by 20 players, but except for that, it isn’t worth the initiative, not even those 3 points.

I agree the skill needs a major tweak, whether it be increased duration, faster animation/lower after cast, or added effects…doesn’t matter.