Guild Wars 2

Could you PLEASE get around to fixing the Mesmer attacks? Now i know you hate them with your obsessed nerfing of them. But i remain (stupidly maybe) hopeful that one day, one day you will get around to actually HELPING the class.

Anyway onto the topic, the Range weapons (Staff, Greatword, Scepter) ALL have this issue it affects WvW and even the new Living Story with the final fight and the orbs being the worst that right in front of it you will get “obstructed” when trying to attack it, this doesnt happen with Melee weapons though

It also affects WvW ALOT. The Oil siege on towers and keep constantly get “obstructed” to the point of having to move all over the place to find where it will allow you to attack – this is despite being in range the WHOLE time

It also happens with guards – surely if i get “Obstructed” while attacking them then why are the other players able to hit them? why are they also able to hit me? the Cannon is another one that likes to give “Obstructed” alot

The slightest change in terrain likes to make it all go crazy as well – to the point of a little rock that you WALK over giving “Obstructed” Now its not a HUGE issue in PvE but when you are fighting a keep/tower and them hitting you (Players and guards) but you get “Obstructed” it kind of gets annoying

I don’t think this is a mesmer specific problem, it just LOS in general that has trouble dealing with anything but horizontal attacks. In PVE, most of the time your are on the ground fighting something that is on the ground, although as you pointed out sometimes minor dips in terrain will cause it to be “obstructed”. In WvW, taking advantage of high/low ground is more important, but the LOS system in this game doesn’t seem to handle it so well especially when trying to shoot up at something. I find it nearly impossible to hit single target spells on anyone sitting on a wall, even if there torso and legs are in full view. It seems like it would require an entire redesign of LOS, which i don’t think is on their agenda right now. For the moment, ground-targeted aoe and melee cleave will continue to reign supreme.