Guild Wars 2

To sum up the reasons I don’t play much anymore would be Australian lag (its seriously crippling), and the fundamental design flaws of the elementalist class. I don’t want to reroll, I like the idea of what the class could be. One problem or the other I could live with, but when you factor both problems together I am left with a result that is no longer fun.

And no, I don’t need to learn to play like so many americans like to tell me when I complain about the issue. The elementalist in its current form simply cannot thrive in a high ping environment. Sure you can get by, but just playing well on an elementalist is enough of a chore without 400 ping. When you factor that in, you miss attacks constantly, you get smacked for half your hp mid dodge roll, you rubberband like mad on movement abilities (ride the lightning is like self casting an earthquake some days).

I might come back to play a lot more if
a: Aussie servers (I seriously doubt that will ever happen)
b: Serious rework of the elementalist (Don’t see this happening either)
c: Smoothping releasing a working and reliable client for gw2. (Doesn’t look like its going to happen anytime soon)

And so I keep an eye one the forums, hoping that eventually something will be fixed enough for me to play again and have fun.

Lightning whip still misses constantly on anything that’s not standing still. It just goes straight through the enemy with red miss spam. Want an exercise in frustration? try hitting a strafing risen thrall with it.

The hitbox itself autoaims in a small cone, but it does not keep up with a moving enemy, it aims where they were a moment ago and misses outright, even as the graphic passes through them. This makes it practically impossible to hit them even if you lead the shot.

Even with the aoe component added, all that was added was a ‘splash’ effect on actual successful hits that hit nearby targets, but if you miss your primary target (easily) , you don’t hit any of them.

Lightning whip has such a tiny hitbox that it will miss whenever you or your opponent moves. Might just be because I have Australian latency, but seeing the whip go straight through the mob over and over with a string of red ‘miss miss miss miss miss miss’ gets really frustrating really fast.

It also misses static objects like weapon racks about 90% of the time too.

Tidal wave has the same problem for me, I torpedo straight through a mob with a string of red miss spam, but I get the impression its more latency based after seeing it hit properly sometimes.