Guild Wars 2

Ok, sort of. The skill is as awful as it’s always been — half the time you can be standing right next to a stationary enemy with clear line of sight and still get ‘obstructed’, ‘out of range’, or what have you. But still, I love it and shan’t let it go.

So, here’s a little video I made highlighting successful Scorpion Wire attempts (as well as some Skull Fears) while messing around in EotM. Enjoy!

had a good giggle on the video! good job! liked the music too

MadVisions.4529:

had a good giggle on the video! good job! liked the music too

Thanks! It’s challenging to find non-copyright that’s good!

If only the fear we got from necromancers didn’t have a target limit… Thanks for sharing your video. I enjoyed the footage and the music.

rennlc.7346:

If only the fear we got from necromancers didn’t have a target limit… Thanks for sharing your video. I enjoyed the footage and the music.

Omg that’d be amazing, but anet seems pretty strict about only ground-targetting skills not having target limits. I think they could bend the rules for skull fear considering how situational it is, but meh.

lololol thumbs up to you!

Nice videos..thanks for that.

Mmm, good old Teef shenanigans at it’s finest (with bugs cut from video).

If only the skill always worked and came with voiced audio shouts.

You must get a lot of love from your opponents!

That’s one of the funniest troll build I’ve seen. I love it!

Nice video ! It seems so easy to do :O

How many attempts do you fail before succeeding one ? It seems you practiced a lot so yo musn’t miss a lot.

oh my sides…… old fashioned pull into hole xD

dude you need deadly arts for double fear xD

Doggie.3184:

Mmm, good old Teef shenanigans at it’s finest (with bugs cut from video).

If only the skill always worked and came with voiced audio shouts.

Ugh. I know. I’m not holding my breath for anet to ever fix scorpion wire, I just get to live in the satisfaction that what I do requires significantly more effort than most other builds out there. Quoth a good friend of mine, “you’re the best player with the kittentiest build I know.”

Sir Mad.1092:

You must get a lot of love from your opponents!

That’s one of the funniest troll build I’ve seen. I love it!

Haha, thanks! It all started when I made a classic perplexity thief build years ago now, but didn’t want to use p/p, so I settled on trying scorpion wire for interrupts. Fell in love with it (despite its flaws) and haven’t looked back. Been trying to keep it up to date as the game changes — it’s nowhere close to meta anymore, but it still does the job quite well. Can tackle most meta builds but requires a LOT of effort to do so, haha.

Wargameur.6950:

Nice video ! It seems so easy to do :O

How many attempts do you fail before succeeding one ? It seems you practiced a lot so yo musn’t miss a lot.

I’d say my hit rate nowadays for these kinds of pulls and fears is maybe around 70-80% depending on the day. Including bugs (the kind where you get obstructed with clear LoS or where the skill just lags out and doesn’t give any ‘obstructed’, ‘missed’, or whatever but still goes on cooldown, maybe 50-60%(?). It’s not too hard once you get the hand of it, but it requires a lot of map awareness as scorpion wire seems to have a weaker pull than most other skills and is easily interrupted by uneven ground and such, so you have to get to know the sweet spots on the map.

Cynz.9437:

oh my sides…… old fashioned pull into hole xD

dude you need deadly arts for double fear xD

Puh-lease. Real men only need one.

Lol, but seriously, I’ve been tempted but I just can’t afford to drop any of my other trait lines with this build. It would be so nice tho. I wish they’d move improvisation to trickery or something, that would be baller.