Ride the lightning
Yeah it is incredibly annoying.
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I guess I’m just not up to date on gimmicks, glitches, and exploits. Can someone tell me where being able to use these mid air was an issue? Did they make you travel further or something? (Which actually makes sense, given physics and such)
Don’t look at me like that. Whatever you’ve heard, it’s probably not true.
Shouldn’t this be in the Elementalist sub-forum?
It’s better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.
Shouldn’t this be in the Elementalist sub-forum?
Yeah it should be, there is already one of this posts in Ele sub-forum. But anyway I am really angry, this skills didn’t do anything to cause issue on the game, why remove this. I want it back !!
~ Arenanet you could at least leave us something, not remove everything that is fun, like seriously.
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I imagine that gliding made this an issue that Anet felt they had to address. And did you look at the 3rd patch notes for 2016-01-26.? Skills from other classes got blocked from being used in mid-air. I would think that means they all have/cause the issue.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/updates/Game-Update-Notes-January-26-2016/first#post5948778
I guess I’m just not up to date on gimmicks, glitches, and exploits. Can someone tell me where being able to use these mid air was an issue? Did they make you travel further or something? (Which actually makes sense, given physics and such)
Well at least one use was to skip the Molten Effigy in the Molten Boss fractal. The patch notes also include.
Fixed an issue that allowed players to skip the Molten Effigy boss in the Molten Boss fractal.
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I guess I’m just not up to date on gimmicks, glitches, and exploits. Can someone tell me where being able to use these mid air was an issue? Did they make you travel further or something? (Which actually makes sense, given physics and such)
Well at least one use was to skip the Molten Effigy in the Molten Boss fractal. The patch notes also include.
Fixed an issue that allowed players to skip the Molten Effigy boss in the Molten Boss fractal.
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I see. Don’t do fractals, so didn’t know. shrug
Then again…I don’t understand the whole skipping mentality. Yeah, I get the whole “it saves time” but meh. Killing kitten is what I’m here for!
Don’t look at me like that. Whatever you’ve heard, it’s probably not true.
I guess I’m just not up to date on gimmicks, glitches, and exploits. Can someone tell me where being able to use these mid air was an issue? Did they make you travel further or something? (Which actually makes sense, given physics and such)
Well at least one use was to skip the Molten Effigy in the Molten Boss fractal. The patch notes also include.
Fixed an issue that allowed players to skip the Molten Effigy boss in the Molten Boss fractal.
.
I see. Don’t do fractals, so didn’t know. shrug
Then again…I don’t understand the whole skipping mentality. Yeah, I get the whole “it saves time” but meh. Killing kitten is what I’m here for!
The the skip doesn’t save much if any at all. Maybe it does at higher scale(51+). There is one annoying thing with that though. If your masteries are maxed and you do that fractal more than once a day it stops giving anything because exp is useless and you won’t get loot.
It probably allows jumping to other places too but gliding probably allows for more places. On the other hand gliding requires HoT.
I can’t speak to ride the lightning, but the ranger staff leap combined with the greatsword leap provided access to WvW objectives bypassing certain walls and gates. Since gliding is not in WvW, I believe this is the driving force behind the quick and dirty fix of eliminating in air leaps entirely.
Edit: I wanted to add, I can also see an issue with in air leaps and gliding. The no fly zones would probably need to be bigger if a player could glide up to the zone followed by an in air leap.
I will miss being able to leap through the skies on both my eel and ranger, but if a skill is exploitable, unfortunately someone will exploit it. I hope they can find a different fix regarding this issue.
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