Guild Wars 2

It seems that the patch didn’t fix magnetic grasp. I still get stuck in the animation making me useless for 2 seconds.

Just remove this skill already and implement something else…

yes, it’s still totally broken and still works as an auto stun.

It’s still broken yeah…

Way worse is that it doesn’t act as a propper leap finisher anymore… People are all raging over a bug fix that was bound to come but they don’t see this, while it is as bad as the rangers trap problem. This could also have been fixed in one night but now that their’s barely any reaction to it they probably don’t even know it yet!
You use it & it visually gives a fire aura, but we don’t get the fire aura status nor any buffs from it. :<

Wait what?

They removed both Evasive Arcana’s finisher and Magnetic Grasp’s?

Oh my, Shinarika I hope you are trolling us, seriously I do.

To be fair, it’s not even listed as being a Leap Finisher, so it might be reasonable to assume it was unintended, which is a shame if that’s the case, but shouldn’t come as a surprise that it’s fixed.

Magnetic grasp is listed as a leap finisher.

Not that it matters since it can be dodged by turning slighty left or right

I think if you look at the tooltip, it’s not.

It’s listed as a leap finisher in the various wiki’s because it was operating as a leap finisher up until the patch, but that’s not to say it was intended.

I used MG mostly as a leap finisher in order to get the aura out of ring of fire, that’s because landing it on a moving target in pvp was very hard unless said target was already in melee range or running in a straight line.

This change greatly limits the uses of MG for me.

The tooltips are known to be inaccurate, but there is possibility the finisher was removed. However, this change wasn’t indicated in the patch notes intended or not, and it was a leap finisher prior to this patch.

I know this is only partialy relevant to this topic, but if ANet decided to stick to tooltips they should have done it with Armor of Earth and Healing Rain too.

Yeah, I’m not saying that the tooltips aren’t a mess and need to be fixed to give an accurate impression of what’s supposed to happen.

With the lack of dev communication, tooltips are all we have to go on to determine a skills intended effect, and 98% of our tooltips are correct, so apply Occams razor.

Definitely gotten worse today.
Had it “miss” majority of the time, stun fairly often, but just had it stun me on the spot I cast it from, not on the player I was targeting, only for it to eventually slowly, in stutters, drag me towards the player seconds later.

I definitely saw it working much worse than before. Stun-locked me most of the time. As for the leap finisher, if I recall, it still works. Can someone confirm though, I wasn’t paying as much attention to that finisher?

It was actually working much better for me.

For some odd reason the result of the Magnetic Grasp leap finisher seems very delayed and unreliable now. For instance, when I use it through Static Field (Lightning Field), the daze effect is delayed. Also, when I use it through Ring of Fire (Fire Field), the Fire Aura message appears but only sometimes (less than half of the time) does the icon actually appear and grant the boons (if traited). Also, the few times the Fire Aura does proc properly, it is delayed as well by 1-2 secs. This really hurts as a Aura D/D ele.

Willybear.4927:

For some odd reason the result of the Magnetic Grasp leap finisher seems very delayed and unreliable now. For instance, when I use it through Static Field (Lightning Field), the daze effect is delayed. Also, when I use it through Ring of Fire (Fire Field), the Fire Aura message appears but only sometimes (less than half of the time) does the icon actually appear and grant the boons (if traited). Also, the few times the Fire Aura does proc properly, it is delayed as well by 1-2 secs. This really hurts as a Aura D/D ele.

I can confirm this. At first I thought this may have been a nerf, but it clearly is bugged. This is hurting my D/D aura build and I hope it gets fixed asap.

3 month later from now, February 15 grand patch.

2 designers that work on pvp balance finally got to Elementalists and engineered brand new fixes that class needed badly since November 15.

Elementalist patchnotes:
– Dragon Tooth now properly applies blast finishers on the place where it hits, so that you can grant 3 stacks of might for your ally who was never there by comboing with fire field that was never there;
– Fixed Magnetic Grasp so it does not provide unintended Leap Finishers so the last 10% of you Eles who tried to make D/D Auras work in pvp can finally reroll or leave the game like the other 90% of you already did.

Communtiy rejoice!

Metalize.5680:

3 month later from now, February 15 grand patch.

2 designers that work on pvp balance finally got to Elementalists and engineered brand new fixes that class needed badly since November 15.

Elementalist patchnotes:
– Dragon Tooth now properly applies blast finishers on the place where it hits, so that you can grant 3 stacks of might for your ally who was never there by comboing with fire field that was never there;
– Fixed Magnetic Grasp so it does not provide unintended Leap Finishers so the last 10% of you Eles who tried to make D/D Auras work in pvp can finally reroll or leave the game like the other 90% of you already did.

Communtiy rejoice!

You forgot to add they’ll be removing Tornado indefinitely and since Earth Grasp, Fire Grab and RTL still doesn’t work 100% those will be removed as well. Along with reduction to Fire’s dps and Earth’s survival. Please read on to various buffs handed out to warriors. =D

Have a Happy Kitten Day!

Arc.9374:

It’s listed as a leap finisher in the various wiki’s because it was operating as a leap finisher up until the patch, but that’s not to say it was intended.

It is still working as a leap finisher and it it still proccing elemental shielding and zephyr’s boon. The problem is that it is ridiculously buggy. It took me about 20 tries to get it to fully activate.

Here’s a screen shot showing magnetic grasp operating as a leap finisher after the recent patch. It also activated about 3 seconds later than it was suppose to.

Right, this is bugged. As a result of the new changes. Basically, you can only get this to proc IF you use it and get self cc’d. This then procs AFTER the self CC is over. Clearly a bug with the magnetic grasp fix. REVERT ASAP PLOZ.

Ya what Cosmic Teapot and Razarei said! Please fix this!

Magnetic Grasp works as a leap finisher for me…

but it is also still bugged where you get stuck mid-pull effectively stunning yourself.

It also gets stuck when you reach your target and yet you still remain in movement mode.

Ride the lightning is also still not fixed.

Ye, it says it triggered Fire Aura but you should check if you got an icon representing Fire Aura. Because you don’t get it in most cases. So visually you get leap finisher, but technically don’t.

haviz.1340:

Ye, it says it triggered Fire Aura but you should check if you got an icon representing Fire Aura. Because you don’t get it in most cases. So visually you get leap finisher, but technically don’t.

Correct

I have found the same, when using dual dagger I am unable to create fire aura, or obtain the benefits of my traits that provide affects upon receiving or creating auras. Alongside this, Magnetic Grasp is still an unstable tool, and without the benefit’s of the aura, I only ever use it for chasing down a target… which is quite a rare occasion as an Ele – generally I am running away.

Magnetic Grasp still bugs out occassionally, but it does seem to happen less often. Its a step in the right direction, at least, though far from a complete fix (and the buggy leap finisher now is a bummer).

Electro.4173:

Magnetic Grasp still bugs out occassionally, but it does seem to happen less often. Its a step in the right direction, at least, though far from a complete fix (and the buggy leap finisher now is a bummer).

A pretty big bummer The aura build that I have in mind can only work if MG works as a leap combo finisher. So far I still don’t know for sure if it’s supposed to be a leap, but just bugged atm or if Anet intended to remove the leap finisher but just forgot to remove the “Fire Aura” animation and only removed the effects themselves.