Guild Wars 2

Why is it that the Shadow Step allows a Thief to traverse gaps and heights while the Lightning Flash spurts, putts, and fails?

Having watched today’s PvP 101 on the A.Net Twitch channel, that one question came to mind. It seems that SS allows a Thief to move to a location without Line of Sight so long as it is a location within range of the ability and the Thief is actually meant to be able to go there. However, for LF, it only works on even ground within a LoS locked state. This really doesn’t make sense considering both are movement based abilities meant to be an escape and reposition of the player.

Is it a bug with LF that it doesn’t work along the same lines kitten Or do the developers mean for this ability to be significantly weaker?

It’s news to me that Thieves can do that. Since the patch change to teleport abilities I’ve been getting “No valid path to target” messages when trying to go through freaking doorways from one flat floor to another. Apparently shadowstep now trips over door sills, tiny rocks, small stumps, and mild inclines.

Do you have any specific examples? In pve and in pvp i use lf the same as infil arrow and it works most of the time.

Also infil arrow doesnt work alot of the time as well.

Well, the two thiefy teleports I do are with the short bow and in the downed state (and the sword 2, which also gets that error message far too much now). I’ve noticed terrain hampering all of those, even in flat dungeons like CoE.