Guild Wars 2

(Reposting from suggestions as this is probably the right location for this)

I’m not sure if this effects all utilities like this, but this has been very noticeable on my Guardian.

There are some Utility skills that for the most part only buff the player, for example, Guardian has the move ‘Retreat’ which grants swiftness and aegis to nearby players.

I am finding that this move and some other utilities are forcing me into auto attack on any poor mob that happens to be anywhere on screen. When holding a ranged weapon, this is especially a nuisance. It does not even require any mob to be targeted either, it will automatically choose one and make it my target anyways when I use the skill.

My suggestion is, if possible, to remove this effect. Especially when using retreat, this seems to defeat the purpose of the skill as I will be wanting to escape from mobs and hitting this forces me into attacking them, thus my run speed is cut in half and the swiftness grants no bonus whatsoever.

Just a thought!

Same thing happens with the Ranger Warhorn buff skill (5) – it triggers autoattack, and makes the pet run randomly at whatever enemy was nearby.

Which when you were using it as a speed boost to just run to another place is less than useful.