Guild Wars 2

It seems silly that I cannot teleport with my Mesmer, over a gap that I could jump over. It’s the same with thieves. What if the mechanic worked like the Engineer Rocket jump, but just make the character invisible during the animation, so it looks like a teleport?

the rocket jump has a flaw. with speed buff you run fast than jumping the distance even with the trait that upgrades the rifle range. The point is that you have the animation delay at the begining and at the end of the Rocket jump (you stand still). Teleport or shadow steps dont have that delay if i remember correctly.

@Xenotor
Have you actually tried teleport or shadowstep? Have you tried those on a ledge? Its ridiculous. You teleport maybe 1 meter forward to the ledge, then suffer the cool down.
There are jumping skills for other classes that work over ledges, why not allow teleport over ledges?

I remember Shadowstepping sorta worked like that in the betas, but it was a different mechanic, people were using it to get on top of walls and through gates in WvW, so they really limited what you could do with it.

Giving them the rocket jump mechanic, with a few tweaks would work. And Teleporting is instant, Rocket Jumping takes a second cause you see yourself travel through the air, I’m sure ANet could remedy that for teleports by making it an instant, really fast jump so it still appears to be as fast as teleports are now?

Because noone do… its only jumps that work (as in that aint reliant on ground). Also mesmer potal HDP~

Call me crazy, but I think no one is going to support this if for no other reason because it is being nice to thieves and/or mesmers, which, according to popular commentary in other forums, seem to be the most OP/hated classes right now. I could be wrong, but as an Engi, the fact that I can do a couple jumping puzzles a bit easier than a mesmer … makes me smile a little on the inside lol