Guild Wars 2

Oh my, what an oversight. Knockbacks from skills like Illusionary Wave and Point Blank shot clearly cause target speeds greater than gravity in the game, so how is it when you knock something against a wall it doesn’t take 100,000 damage? My immersion is broken T.T

Because pixels (you) don’t have actual weight or mass.

/runs off edge of cliff. Plummet 100 feet. Take damage down to a sliver of health. Get up and continue running.

Maybe gravity isn’t such a cruel mistress?

what bothers me is they nerfed all the elementalist “corner your opponent” effects, yet didn’t bother to rework ‘gust’ a pushback which has been the most notably frowned upon staff elem skill.. it should be a ground targeted with a small blowout

in tyria gravity is a dark dark spirit, all those non-harmful knockbacks will bide their time and one day when you least expect it, when you are jogging down a mere incline of 35 degrees.. z z z zero health

btw kirin, nice guildname.. huge typemoon fan

Shockwave.1230:

Oh my, what an oversight. Knockbacks from skills like Illusionary Wave and Point Blank shot clearly cause target speeds greater than gravity in the game, so how is it when you knock something against a wall it doesn’t take 100,000 damage? My immersion is broken T.T

Remember, you can fall a reasonable distance without taking any damage at all. Do any knockback or launch skills actually knockback as far a distance as is needed to proc falling damage? Maybe Banish, is all.

If you knock them back a small distance against a wall, that’s certainly not far enough.

It serves other purposes, such as not being an annoyance to other allies who are attacking the same targets, so you get to use your knockback skill, which happens to also deal damage, and they don’t get frustrated that you just pushed targets out of their range. Only time I really use Illusionary Wave is when I wish to get a Thief out of Shadow Refuge anyways. I sure won’t target that against a wall, I’ll knock ’em out sideways if I have to.