The camo cactus was my favorite character in GW1. I got more than 45,000 player kills with him but in GW2 he is useless. - His scope is so lethargic. Usually you aim just in front of the enemy while they're moving to get a head shot but the scope is SO slow that the enemy moves faster than I can aim. - Imps are impossible to hit and kill you with no trouble - There are NO good sniping spots in GW2 in any of the maps. If you go up the back of a map there is only a very small partial view which is rubbish. There's pretty much always a wall or some object that's in your way and obstructs your view. These maps seem so much more cluttered than those from GW1. They need to bring the old ones back. - The cactus trick to fly itself up using its drone has been removed. I don't care if it was a glitch they need to bring it back because the cactus (all classes) needs to get up higher to be worth playing. I think the cactus class in general has become obsolete with the new characters. Who else agrees? Now days all I see are people playing the new characters because all the old much loved ones from GW1 just simply don't stand a chance. I've said it before but I think they need to split the new characters and old characters up to make the gameplay more enjoyable. I am hugely loyal fan of the game and I'm only playing because I waiting for them to fix the game and it's MANY problems, I'm not actually enjoying the game at all.

The lack of decent sniping spots is why i haven't touched cactus or pirate at all outside of the backyard for quickly doing the quests. The only map with decent sniping spots is great white north but the hitboxes on trees and stuff is so horrendous.

I am still pretty successful with the cactus, but whenever i play the Pirate i cannot believe how much easier he is to play. Faster aim, splash damage, AoE explosive barrel with armor, easier to control parrot, and he does not have to deal with inaccurate shots from the hip, and so on...

I really did not like the scope on GW1 on this cactus and now sice GW2 its even more of a pain. I totally agree with the scope zooming in too close and being too slow on this variant its completely useless.

To be honest all of the cactus variants become useless when you unlock the zen catcus who is better than all of the other variants in every way. Decent zoom, decent ROF, Way faster reloading than the camo cactus, has a small AOE with her attacks, high damage even better than the camo cactus especially due to all those advantages. The have to rework a lot of the older plant characters to be more competitive against the zombies since plants are no longer just focused on defending areas now.

I have to disagree here. I'm not saying he's perfectly fine, I actually think that her damage could be brought up to 70 since they nerfed her a bit to hard, but he's so much stronger in this game than he ever was in GW1. With the nerf to the only Zombie that could seriously pose a threat to him, the Super Commando, she's the uncontested queen in of long range sniper duels in GW2. I still think that all Deadbeards are inferior as a Sniper in exchange for a shotgun that can be avoided by staying away further than 5 meters in close range fights. The key strategy is to predict your enemy's movement and to press the trigger at the exact moment to hit his head. I know it's A LIT easier said than done, but I practiced with high sensitivity and a friend in a private match. It took me about 3 hours to get the pattern for most Zombies, and bouncing Imps are almost im(p)possible to hit, but it works well enough for most characters. And as far as as the TTK goes, it's srill 0.96 seconds for anything that is not an All-Star, Super Brainz or Mech (altough damage against Mechs should be increased)

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16 Replies

Finaldeath1689
10 years ago
The lack of decent sniping spots is why i haven't touched cactus or pirate at all outside of the backyard for quickly doing the quests. The only map with decent sniping spots is great white north but the hitboxes on trees and stuff is so horrendous.
Anonymous
10 years ago
Agreed, cactus just doesn't have a place anymore. I friended out fire cactus to master, but haven't touched another one since then.
Screion
10 years ago
I am still pretty successful with the cactus, but whenever i play the Pirate i cannot believe how much easier he is to play. Faster aim, splash damage, AoE explosive barrel with armor, easier to control parrot, and he does not have to deal with inaccurate shots from the hip, and so on...
superxmario128
10 years ago
To be honest all of the cactus variants become useless when you unlock the zen catcus who is better than all of the other variants in every way. Decent zoom, decent ROF, Way faster reloading than the camo cactus, has a small AOE with her attacks, high damage even better than the camo cactus especially due to all those advantages.
The have to rework a lot of the older plant characters to be more competitive against the zombies since plants are no longer just focused on defending areas now.
jiponwheels
10 years ago
I really did not like the scope on GW1 on this cactus and now sice GW2 its even more of a pain. I totally agree with the scope zooming in too close and being too slow on this variant its completely useless.
Anonymous
10 years ago
I have to disagree here. I'm not saying he's perfectly fine, I actually think that her damage could be brought up to 70 since they nerfed her a bit to hard, but he's so much stronger in this game than he ever was in GW1. With the nerf to the only Zombie that could seriously pose a threat to him, the Super Commando, she's the uncontested queen in of long range sniper duels in GW2. I still think that all Deadbeards are inferior as a Sniper in exchange for a shotgun that can be avoided by staying away further than 5 meters in close range fights. The key strategy is to predict your enemy's movement and to press the trigger at the exact moment to hit his head. I know it's A LIT easier said than done, but I practiced with high sensitivity and a friend in a private match. It took me about 3 hours to get the pattern for most Zombies, and bouncing Imps are almost im(p)possible to hit, but it works well enough for most characters. And as far as as the TTK goes, it's srill 0.96 seconds for anything that is not an All-Star, Super Brainz or Mech (altough damage against Mechs should be increased)
Boolerex
10 years ago
I blame his super slow aim.
Anonymous
10 years ago
I still do well with some cactuses in this game, so I'm not sure all of them need a boost. Camo cactus aim definitely needs to be sped up just a bit... He already fires incredibly slow, has a small mag size, and has a terrible reload speed. That's penalty enough penalty for the benefit of huge zoom. Increase the aim speed please! Keep it slow, but not THIS slow.
Anonymous
10 years ago
No it isn't. I have master this character and it has the damage upgrade which you may have not unlock yet. the only problem is hit detection that's all.
TallerGoblin
10 years ago
The damage isn't the problem. If you bothered to read what I wrote you'd see I stated the problem was the crappy Scope!!!