Templar - Fun with Charges

Animal_Mother · May 2015

I spent my morning trying to duplicate this:

https://youtu.be/9vP8fQx-HXY

On the Templar megathread, I speculated I was facing a 2Hander at the time. I'm sorry, I guess it wasn't a 2Handed attack that locked Explosive Charge's animation; who would have thought a light 1H sword attack would d the trick.

I came close, but failed to replicate it. Every fight was like this:

https://youtu.be/2Ix3JRexSzE

EC would glitch a couple times, during every prolonged fight when I was circle strafing and trying to line up my charge. I'm not exaggerating, literally every fight with multiple mobs, where I was trying to push the ability, I would see animation glitches and/or the ability not fire. Total run was 45 minutes - I would estimate about 50+ glitches in that time or 50% of my total charges.

So I switched to Shielded Assault and within two minutes (45 seconds to be exact) got stuck in animation when a pebble got between me and a mob.

https://youtu.be/TLiUkTSCA0c

Shielded Assault still glitched when pushed, but not as nearly often as EC. The experience with Shielded Assault was better than Explosive Charge. Even though, I got stuck, it was easy to recover - just blocked and I was free (no potion needed) and ability felt more responsive and easier to chain attacks off of.

Advice for charges - don't push the targeting envelope. Keep the target lined up in the middle of your view. Watch out for pebbles.

I should have tried Critical Charge, but I suspect all charges have issues working correctly you can just barely target a mob/player.

glak · May 2015

Did you lock on atany point with cycle target?

danovic · May 2015

It has done that to me since the game was release without change. Stopped using any charge abilities and puncture strike because of it. I like dotting them at range and letting them run to me dieing wile I blast them with range attacks anyway. They usually dead by the time they get to me.

Animal_Mother · May 2015

No I didn't.

Well, not until I tried Critical Rush and saw your post. I was going to write that Critical Rush worked flawlessly compared to the other two charges - until I got stuck in animation at the very same spot as I did with Shielded Assault. Just like Shielded Assault it was an easy clear - block.

Against tab-targeted mobs I only experienced one minor animation glitch and I know the target corners were not filled at the time - so just outside of the rectangle.

To be honest what I saw this morning seemed similar to the Reflecting Light video @Cinbri posted a while ago, or like @Soris pointed out with RD's target moving out of range. Instead of the target obscured by terrain or moving out of range, I lost the target, due to angles, before the game could execute the attack and that glitched the charge animations.

It's as if the game has two different targeting systems - one where you can certainly hit a mob and another where you may hit a mob.