Guild Wars 2

Can someone please explain to me why the cast time on brutal shot is so unbelievably long? It takes a whole second to get it out… Thats more than half the time of kill shot, almost half the time of volley, slower than shooting a bow and 10 times longer than it takes a dagger thief to kill anything in this game…

Seriously… Sometimes when I’m around thieves I can’t even get my opening brutal shot out in time to get exp from the kill… A second cast time and like another 3 to get there = thief is done with the kill before I can contribute anything…

ANet… Is there anything at all you can do to help that skill???

I used the rifle for a bit, and I never used brutal shot until I was out of other options lol, is it right? No, but it’s kind of how it was for me.

The skill itself isn’t all that bad, 5% more damage is a nice opener… I typically use a rotation of brutal shot (vulnerability), aimed shot (cripple) and then volley, but the more I think about it, the less sense it makes to use it… Its just so slow…

doesn’t really matter in PVE, but in wvw or pvp, that’s quite a waste most of the time to open with it =/ which is lame. I’d suggest halving the cast time to 0.5s.

In the skill’s current form it is not useful in 90% of 1v1 scenarios. If you have multiple people all hitting a target, the 5 vulnerability ends up being far more damage than you could possibly do with one second of attacking.

Simple answer: don’t use the skill when you’re alone, always use it when in a party.