Guild Wars 2

Here I show how my Ride the Lightning (Air 4) and Magnetic Grasp (Earth 3) are 100% bugged constantly. They will always overshoot no matter what, it used to be about 50/50 but now it has a 100% overshoot rate.

Is anyone else having this issue?

It really needs to be fixed.. having my main gap closers overshoot away from the target is really annoying and makes things harder then they should be.

EDIT: Some additional information I thought would be important this only happens in WvW. In sPvP everything is fine.

wow that sucks! never had that happen to me yet

+1 to this, thought it was me at first but then i remembered that our class is badly broken

Few more bugs to note that has nothing to do with internet or lag:

Rtl rubber bands you as in kepps going for a bit longer and then pushes you back to where it would have originally stopped.

Rtl when triggered can stop auto run and/or when holding the move forward key will make you stop at the end of the animation making you release move key, pushing the key, release and push to start moving again making it annoying in wvw.

MG will not always stun enemies and overshoot you from the target whilst holding you in position for a while.

Thought it was me at first but after extensive research and asking others it seems it is common among others.

Now to wait for 1/2 a year just to get 1 bug fixed,…………

I think i’ve only overshot once or twice in the entire time I’ve been playing ele and I’ve been playing since release.
I know Magnetic Grasp has a terrain issue that needs to be fixed. Sometimes you pretty much stun yourself for 3 sec and just float in the animation of the pull.

But never overshoots. Wierd. My best guess is a latency/ping issue.

I never had this problem at all, then for a couple days it happened to me nonstop, and now it isn’t happening at all again. I have no idea what causes it, but trying to play with this bug is kitten near impossible. It seems like a small thing, but it really kittens you up.

From the beginning until 2 months so, everything was fine, then RTL overshot my target, ‘rubberband’ effect and also magnetic grasp either ‘stuns’ me or missed completely even when my target is right in front and targeted so yeah, quite bugged.

Yea probs ping/latency..

Happens to me all the time but I agree it has gotten worse recently.
I overshoot 100% with RTL and probably about 80% with magnetic grasp.
Like you, it was also 50/50 for me but now it is the numbers I just mentioned.^

EDIT: Lol I just went in spvp now to test it and it is all fine for me there too :/

In my case, Magnetic Grasp tooltip should be: Self stun for 2 sec.

It most probably is a ping or latency issue. I’ve hardly gotten these overshots too, but when I do it’s always when I’m starting to lag. Another thing I found is that if someone immobilized me the same time I used Magnetic Grasp, I would 100% overshoot after the immobilize ended. Other than that, only overshoot when I’m lagging..

I am from Australia so ping is defiantly an issue, however I don’t understand how it used to work and now it doesn’t work at all. Also it works fine in sPvP when I have the same latency.

Maybe someone who is good with computers can explain what is happening and if it can be fixed?

dreztina.4820:

I never had this problem at all, then for a couple days it happened to me nonstop, and now it isn’t happening at all again. I have no idea what causes it, but trying to play with this bug is kitten near impossible. It seems like a small thing, but it really kittens you up.

lag?

Mentioned in your WvW video thread but adding my +1 here.

Playing from South Africa with around 200-225 latency and I have the exact same overshoot problem combined with Updraft leaving me facing AWAY from my target as well as Burning Speed having a much shorter range where the blast triggers behind me most times. Add to the list the fact that things like Fire Grab, Drake’s Breath, Cone of Cold and Lightning Whip regularly miss due to latency makes me a sad panda.

And sadly there is nothing I can do to improve my latency, even using BattlePing to get the most out of it.

MarzAttakz.9608:

Mentioned in your WvW video thread but adding my +1 here.

Playing from South Africa with around 200-225 latency and I have the exact same overshoot problem combined with Updraft leaving me facing AWAY from my target as well as Burning Speed having a much shorter range where the blast triggers behind me most times. Add to the list the fact that things like Fire Grab, Drake’s Breath, Cone of Cold and Lightning Whip regularly miss due to latency makes me a sad panda.

And sadly there is nothing I can do to improve my latency, even using BattlePing to get the most out of it.

I don’t think this is lag. I have all of the same problems with a ping of like 50-80. I can never figure out why the above mentioned abilities miss about 70% of the time. Even on a stationary target they will miss.

Also the overshoot problem is rediculous. I have only noticed it in WvW, but it is a gamebreaker when in 1v1 or 1v2. And it is horrible when you want to hit air4 to close gap on a zerg then air5 to knock them all down and get out so your teamates can finish them off, you overshoot or are stunned at the end of it and are dead.

I magnetic grasped a player last night near garrison and shot through him and off the cliff to my death. Bug, yeah …but at least it was hilarious.

have the problem too.

It seems to be overshooting worse today >.<

Magnetic grasp sometimes has the habit of not actually moving me at all. If the target is immobilised or crippled, my grasp will either stop me from moving or pull me to the target but won’t connect, the animation keeps playing.

interesting o_O

Yes that has been happening to me since they changed RTL in a recent patch. It’s so bad I can’t play my Ele.

Magnetic Grasp is even abusable. If you cancel you target after used that skill or, even you target dies after you started skill, you travel really long distance…

It happens the most when you trigger those skills while moving towards your target. It is indeed very counter-intuitive to have to stop moving to use those skills for them to hit consistently.

Magnetic grasp I have little faith in. It seems about 50/50 for me. Interesting tips here though.

Try turning the “Melee Attack Assist” on, maybe it can solve that.

Victorctk.4931:

From the beginning until 2 months so, everything was fine, then RTL overshot my target, ‘rubberband’ effect and also magnetic grasp either ‘stuns’ me or missed completely even when my target is right in front and targeted so yeah, quite bugged.

confirming this problem for me also. my D/D Ele is close to unplayable.

if the game design is not technically doable, change the design. stop shipping broken code. f.f.s.