Guild Wars 2

Surprised nobody brought this up yet, so I guess it is intended?

To clarify: If someone gets downed while airborne, hitting the ground will instakill him with no chance to rally. The falling distance doesn’t matter – it happens even when jumping from the last step of stairs (this terrain difference is pivotal, though – jumping on flat ground doesn’t lead to the same fate obviously).

Lol i havent had this happen before.

I’ve taken half my hp in falling damage from using Ride the Lightning over the Keep Stairs though. Tiny little stairs basically breaking my legs while im a ball of lightning without legs. It also puts me in ‘dropped to floor’ animation, laying down on the ground with my face down. Like that you can then move around for a little bit, sliding half dead over the ground.

I would like to know how to survive on a trabuchet defense/attack, if when i am low hp i die jumping off the trabuchet position.

Shukran.4851:

I would like to know how to survive on a trabuchet defense/attack, if when i am low hp i die jumping off the trabuchet position.

DOn’t jump off when low HP? Seems obvious answer to me.

teviko.6049:

Shukran.4851:

I would like to know how to survive on a trabuchet defense/attack, if when i am low hp i die jumping off the trabuchet position.

DOn’t jump off when low HP? Seems obvious answer to me.

yeah, but when u are low hp and want to find an escape there is not so many ways to go ^^

Nyota.7062:

Surprised nobody brought this up yet, so I guess it is intended?

To clarify: If someone gets downed while airborne, hitting the ground will instakill him with no chance to rally. The falling distance doesn’t matter – it happens even when jumping from the last step of stairs (this terrain difference is pivotal, though – jumping on flat ground doesn’t lead to the same fate obviously).

This doesn’t happen.

It only happens when you would otherwise have taken fall damage.

The end.

You die because when you take fatal fall damage you do not go into downstate you simply die. So jumping off the treb platform with less than 2k health means you will die, because you have now taken fatal fall damage.

Also fall damage does not care whether you are in combat or not, it takes precedence.

Rika.7249:

This doesn’t happen.

It only happens when you would otherwise have taken fall damage.

The end.

Well, this bland statement conflicts with my firsthand experience on multiple occasions. I invite you to try it out – go khylo with a mate, hit him down to 5% hp and make him do the 3ft jump from clocktower node to the floor. While he is airborne, get rid of that last 5% and he’ll be dead from the ‘impact’ of falling to the floor.

Anyplace works, really, as long as there is any kind of elevated architecture and the player dies (rather: gets downed) airborne between two different niveaus of terrain, no matter how measly.

I have tried it.

I only die if I take falling damage that exceeds the amount of health I have currently.

Edit: I totally now see what you meant, I thought about the general “dying” from fall damage.

Dying midair, you mean.

I don’t know what to say about that really. I hope they’ll change it so it doesn’t happen unless you take fall damage.

probably because falling you take the damage needed to exaust the red life you have while downed. so you insta-die.

Shukran.4851:

probably because falling you take the damage needed to exaust the red life you have while downed. so you insta-die.

That’s exactly the issue – it happens when you wouldn’t take damage if falling normal (i.e. not downed). It’s like you turn to glass, when downed midair and shatter due to the tiniest of heights.

Rika.7249:

Edit: I totally now see what you meant, I thought about the general “dying” from fall damage.

Dying midair, you mean.

I don’t know what to say about that really. I hope they’ll change it so it doesn’t happen unless you take fall damage.

Glad you went through the effort to confirm this!

This is happening with the elementalist ability ride the lightning. It keeps killing me instantly when I use it off a cliff that would normally not even give fall damage.