Guild Wars 2

While personally, I would really like evade skills (Flanking Strike, Disabling Shot, Death Blossom, Withdraw, Roll For Initiative) to be immediate and override current animations, what would you say to having them also be controllable as far as directioning goes… like a dodge roll?

For example, holding the “A” (move left) key while activating Flanking Strike would ignore the selected target’s position, and would direct the skill to the left. Pressing the “W” (move forward) key (or nothing at all) would allow the skill to function in its normal direction.

Such a thing would allow a string of proper evasions without actually having to deselect a target in the midst of combat for skills like Flanking Strike. It would also allow easier evasions to bypass certain damaging boundaries such as Test of Faith and Ring of Fire.

Withdraw/Roll For Initiative would function just as normal dodge rolls do.

Would be too much work for anet to do flanking strike animation back to front since the dagger hits and it’s off hand, not to mention how clunky withdraw and rfi animation would look if you cut the distance in half. As for the “over ride” the only real way to a acomplish this is to disable aa chain, after a few days to a week you get use to using #1 and #3

Fat Disgrace.4275:

Would be too much work for anet to do flanking strike animation back to front since the dagger hits and it’s off hand.

I don’t mind lazy solutions that work :-P

Just turn the Thief around first, and play the animation as normal ;-)

Fat Disgrace.4275:

after a few days to a week you get use to using #1 and #3

So true, so true. Sadly, I’ve been there for a while :-P