Guild Wars 2

(WvW perspective)

As many people know the range listed on weapons may exceed the range listed in the hot tip. This is most common with the auto attack skills (skill 1) but may be true for other skills as well.

Impale is considered a skill for a condition build thus we do not see s/s played on a power warrior that often. It does however have a decent power attack build into it with rip.

I play s/s gs power build, but even with this I never use rip when fighting other players because it has bad range, is slow, and interrupts the fluidity of auto attacks. You might look at it and say, but it has 150 range, that is more than your other skills. That is in fact wrong. Going back to the first paragraph, while sword auto attack and final thrust are listed at 130 range they exceed that range. Video proof:

Please rework rip so that it activates faster, has a better range, has a small leap, or just something that makes it more usable. I play s/s power and the only time i use rip is on npcs because they don’t move so i know it will hit.

Oh, and another reason not to use rip is because if you start the animation and impale expires on your target you do absolutely nothing. It makes sense that this happens, but it just makes it an even a higher risk skill aside from its other flaws.