Guild Wars 2

I’ve been having a weird issue: I use a sword on my thief and the 3 ability, flanking strike, keeps missing for some reason. Basically what happens is, I’m fighting an enemy and when I use flanking strike, my character rolls really far to the side, so one or both of the subsequent attacks simply end up missing. This doesn’t always happen, but it’s common enough that it gets annoying.

Does anyone have any idea why this happens or what I could do to avoid it? Am I doing something wrong?

Nope its just a bad skill…

people have called for it to be reworked but its on a long list of things to do for ANet… and patches have slowed down somewhat

As Dronin said, the skill itself is bugged and needs a rework. Stupidly, the Ranger has the same skill on their Sword 3 (except it’s a roll not a sort of dodge thing) and it works flawlessly.

This skill worked fine when I used it in BWE1, it always did what it had to do but now since launch I noticed it missed and just places your character to the side (not the side of the enemy) but really to the right all the time.

This is obviously a bug

Bad skill is bad, as others have said it’s bugged, at least I hope, because for the stupid dodge to the right side to be intended I will have to kill myself as it makes s/d useless but I could really use the boon removal on invinci-guardians.

More than anything, it’s freaking slow and overall it deals about the same damage of C&D, with less utility.

There’s no advantage in using FS over a traited ( 2ini return on stealth) C&D , and since there’re no viable S/D builds not being power based, and FS is a power based skill, there’s obviously a problem with it if there’s NEVER any opportunity chance to use FS effectively.

I know FS fixing/rewamping is not top priority, but as an S/D tourney player, it’s really annoying to have a useless skill on my already restricted weapon bar.

Alright, thanks for the responses guys! I may be forced to switch back to D/D then, which is a shame, because I’m really bored of spamming the same skill/skills over and over. Maybe I’ll just try to work around the bug instead and hope they fix it soon.