Guild Wars 2

Brawling arena is fun but the Shadowstep pathing is comically bad. Even when you can teleport the distance is smaller like it was interrupted. The center, as far as I know is completely anti-Shadowstep. Even if you stand inside the square you can’t Shadowstep.

This basically negates the entire steal mechanic for a substantial portion of the arena without an apparent design feature. For example there is no slightly raised platform you need to jump up on before you can teleport/shadowstep.

Please fix this issue or make the square a raised block with the ability to teleport around once you are on it.

As to the design, I like it but I wish the falling off mechanic teleported you out of arena. Right now it just repositions you inside the arena even if the other person knocked out out of the arena. Should count more like a “death” imo.

A lesser issue is that it’s annoying to watch from the stands because you’ll constantly get hit with conditions. They don’t do anything to you but it’s just an annoyance.

Really? I never noticed taking conditions from the stands....then again most everyone was just clobbering each other in the arena lol.

Yeah if you stand near the railing above the arena you’ll take phantom hits and conditions. They don’t do anything since you’re not in the combat area but it’s just funny/annoying.