Guild Wars 2

When the update for living world three happened, it was easy to see that ley line gliding was important.

I was saving my mastery points not knowing what ones would be most beneficial to me. I thought, ok it was time to spend my precious points on this….So I did.

I later found out you could buy this with out much of an effort. I understand that the Ley Line that can be bought is for only in Bloodstone Fen. Still, had I know this, I may have well spent my few points that I had on something else.

Not really a big complaint, but I wish I had all the facts before I spent 16 points.

Tom.6478:

When the update for living world three happened, it was easy to see that ley line gliding was important.

I was saving my mastery points not knowing what ones would be most beneficial to me. I thought, ok it was time to spend my precious points on this….So I did.

I later found out you could buy this with out much of an effort. I understand that the Ley Line that can be bought is for only in Bloodstone Fen. Still, had I know this, I may have well spent my few points that I had on something else.

Not really a big complaint, but I wish I had all the facts before I spent 16 points.

The best part of the gliding line is the advanced for that unlimited gliding so you still have that. That’s not to say the Ley Line is useless because it’s not. Even in Bloodstone Fen it helps to have it. One good example is going for the SW Mastry Point. If you fail and have to give it another shot you can WP back to the nearest WP sure. But with the Ley Line you have the extra option of running back about halfway and using the Ley Line to get back up.

This is also handy if you are gliding around above for the Bloodstone rocks and drop too low or out of reach of one. NP just hit that Ley Line and you are back up there in a jiffy! No need to waste 1 silver and opening your map to use that WP every time.

Trust me, in time you will get plenty more mastery points and will not miss the 16 you spent. In fact from what I read on this forum that map brought in something between 7-11 so that’s not too far off the 16.

The Bloodstone Fen skill only lets you create your own ley lines, and, from what I’ve been told, you have to have Ley Line Gliding unlocked to even buy the item that gives you the Bloodstone Fen leyline gliding skill. So, you haven’t wasted your MPs.

As Rose said, you can’t even buy the skill unless you actually have the Ley Line Gliding mastery. I can say this with absolute certainty as I don’t have it, and when I view the item on the vendor its greyed out with big red text telling me as such.

So no, it wasn’t a waste in the slightest.

heh, keep in mind also that when you use the item in Bloodstone Fen you better hope you don’t run into another leyline while you’re gliding along your personal one… you will die..

Ride the Ley Line is not the same as normal LeyLine Gliding… The spell you can buy in bloodstone fen works like a rocket booster to speed you up, while a normal leyline is like a current that actually carries you somewhere, including up.

Both the Ride the Ley Line skill and Ley line gliding mastery are useful in a single map right now.

I’m still halway to get the unlimited gliding.. sooo loong to get the exp for it! I can’t even begin to think how long ley line gliding will take :S

coso.9173:

I’m still halway to get the unlimited gliding.. sooo loong to get the exp for it! I can’t even begin to think how long ley line gliding will take :S

It’s really not that bad, use some exp booster, eat food with 15% exp from kills, use utility, use lunar new year firework. Explore on a character that hasn’t explored HoT yet, use the story and meta exp rewards, get creative, it does not take long.

Same here, I grinded out ley-line gliding just for Bloodstone Fen, then found out you could just buy it..

But oh well, at least I got another mastery and 12 more mastery levels now..

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

Same here, I grinded out ley-line gliding just for Bloodstone Fen, then found out you could just buy it..

As we said above, you have to have Ley-line Gliding mastery unlocked to even buy the item.

I think some are confusing the two skills. Ley-line gliding, unlocked via mastery, means that when you glide into a ley-line in HoT you will hook onto it and be carried along it in the direction it is flowing. It is used for reaching some high places and for easier hopping between islands in the DS end fight. It confers no protection beyond carrying you out of range of things.

The Bloodstone Fen version gives you a short aerial dash (longer if you hold the button down) that confers evade (and stability?) as well as giving you a rocket boost up if you use it in an updraft. You need to check for ley-lines and NOT dash into them with it, except once for an achieve. You can only use it in BF, and you can only buy it to use there after you have mastered regular ley line surfing.

There was good reason for the heads up the day before the patch that people might want to max gliding if they hadn’t yet.

You can’t buy the ability to ride ley lines in bloodstone fen.

That skill requires having ley lin gliding already learned to purchase, and creates your own temporary ley lines. There is no way to acquire it without already knowing ley line gliding.

Thanks to all that replied to this thread.

Obviously I thought these two things were the same thing. Maybe that’s my fault.

You have to admit it would be easy to think it was the same thing.

Now that I know this is 2 different things, I still don’t know if its worth purchasing ride the ley line.

Other than getting you somewhere faster, is there a real use for this?

I don’t have it yet, but I have been able to do most everything there is to do in Bloodstone Fen.

Convince me I should buy it….:)

Hmm … I would put it on around hte same level of usefulness as Advanced Gliding.

Tom.6478:

Thanks to all that replied to this thread.

Obviously I thought these two things were the same thing. Maybe that’s my fault.

You have to admit it would be easy to think it was the same thing.

Now that I know this is 2 different things, I still don’t know if its worth purchasing ride the ley line.

Other than getting you somewhere faster, is there a real use for this?

I don’t have it yet, but I have been able to do most everything there is to do in Bloodstone Fen.

Convince me I should buy it….:)

I don’t have it yet but others report it’s useful to avoid the thrown rocks.

AliamRationem.5172:

Okay, so I unlocked glider skill 5 and that’s what I was missing. It’s a 4 second evade + stability on a 5 second cooldown. So here’s a rough idea of how to survive flying around this map, for those who are feeling like a sitting (err, flying?) duck in the air:

When you first enter the air, use glider skill 5 to cover the projectiles that are already in the air. Then stealth to prevent more projectiles from coming. By the time you get out of stealth, glider skill 5 is ready again or you can re-stealth.

Also, it appears that retracting your glider and dropping out of the sky reverts the enemies to their normal aggro and range rules. So if you’re running out of endurance and glider skill 5 is on cooldown, you still have your trusty ability to drop like a rock to prevent additional projectiles from being launched in your direction. Of course, you would ideally reserve this tactic for when you actually want to head downward anyway!

So, amending my previous position. Everything is fine. Better, even! Because gliding in the new map has become a little more interesting. I’ll post again once I’ve unlocked all of the skills and really gotten a feel for it. But it looks promising with just skill 5 unlocked. I no longer feel defenseless in the sky!

I think I’m going to grab skill 2 next. It sounds like it’s a short cooldown area knockdown that applies random conditions. Between that, stealth, and the 4s evade I should be able to not only survive but effectively fight back from above! I’ll let you know how it goes.

Tom.6478:

Now that I know this is 2 different things, I still don’t know if its worth purchasing ride the ley line.
Other than getting you somewhere faster, is there a real use for this?
I don’t have it yet, but I have been able to do most everything there is to do in Bloodstone Fen.
Convince me I should buy it….:)

Stop being silly and buy it already. Of course it’s worth it. Not only does it get you to events faster and help avoid rocks, but it’s just so darned cool. And there’s an achievement behind it. It’s a cheap buy and it’s lots of fun. Why are you waiting? Buy now and you get a free set of ginsu knives!

Tom.6478:

Thanks to all that replied to this thread.

Obviously I thought these two things were the same thing. Maybe that’s my fault.

You have to admit it would be easy to think it was the same thing.

Now that I know this is 2 different things, I still don’t know if its worth purchasing ride the ley line.

Other than getting you somewhere faster, is there a real use for this?

I don’t have it yet, but I have been able to do most everything there is to do in Bloodstone Fen.

Convince me I should buy it….:)

lol, I’ve had ley-line mastered for ages and I won’t be wasting any goodies on buying this… If it gave me a mastery point for using it to die while running into a leyline then I would.. but since it doesn’t I’ll save the currency for something else

Then again I’m reading about avoiding rocks etc… meh, maybe… :P

Khisanth.2948:

Hmm … I would put it on around hte same level of usefulness as Advanced Gliding.

There is an achievement you can only get with that skill, be using it to collide with another, existing lay line.
"Don't Cross the Streams"
I mean alone for the reference ^^

Balthazzarr.1349:

Tom.6478:

Thanks to all that replied to this thread.

Obviously I thought these two things were the same thing. Maybe that’s my fault.

You have to admit it would be easy to think it was the same thing.

Now that I know this is 2 different things, I still don’t know if its worth purchasing ride the ley line.

Other than getting you somewhere faster, is there a real use for this?

I don’t have it yet, but I have been able to do most everything there is to do in Bloodstone Fen.

Convince me I should buy it….:)

lol, I’ve had ley-line mastered for ages and I won’t be wasting any goodies on buying this… If it gave me a mastery point for using it to die while running into a leyline then I would.. but since it doesn’t I’ll save the currency for something else

What goodies are your wasting buying this? I don’t remember exactly how much it cost but it was something like 1000 unbound magics and some silver or bloodstone maybe, all of which is easy to get. It’s peanuts for something to lets you fly around the map at high speed. I miss this ability in every other map and hope that it’ll spread out one day.