Guild Wars 2

Hammer 2 has to be aimed and is easily avoidable at max range. If you are paying any kind of attention you can simply alter your trajectory and avoid it. You literally see it coming, and you don’t even have to evade to get out of the way. If the person “leads” you with the shot and you run into it, L2P. This skill does do very high damage at max range, but the telegraphs and slow speed to get there are, in my opinion, a fair trade-off.

I’m working the show as an enforcer so I’ll miss your panel. huge fan, would love to meet the crew and hang out!

Question 1 I’m not sure. Question 2 is solved by an in-game option. I can’t remember what it’s called specifically, but there is an option for ground targeting to happen as soon as you click the skill once, or you can have it show target on hold and cast on release. Option 3 is of course allowed, that’s just a standard keybind for a peripheral. That would be a slippery slope if they disallowed that.

Wuselknusel.4082:

The ones saying the LB is dead are as exaggerating as the ones saying the LB Ranger can keep up with other go-to classes. Sure the LB does a lot of damage, but there is no way in hell you can outdamage a staff ele. Not only that, but the Ranger is also missing support when using the LB. Other classes bring way more to the table while providing the same usefulness.

I’ve not played my elementalist nearly as much as my ranger, so maybe I’m doing it wrong, but how does a staff ele deal near as much single-target damage as a ranger in wvw? It seems like nearly all of the ele’s DPS is ground-targeted, which seems difficult to get players to stay in for long.

I really like it, I think boon duration is one of the best ways to boost our support capabilities.