Guild Wars 2

I think I am one of the few eles that use RtL as a gap closer and rely more on lightning flash for a getaway. Right now, we need to do damage to get back our 20 second CD. Is it intended that blocks, blinds, etc. trigger the 40 second CD? If this truly the case I would like your feedback on why this functionality is intended.

Well, they said on stream a block would trigger the 20s cooldown. Should give you an idea about how well they planned & tested this change.

Obviously not working as intended, but half of that patch needs to be reverted anyways.

Hard to say what their intention was besides having elementists die even more on the WvW battlefield.

It says “strike” an opponent, not damage. I assumed this meant something like “run into”. So, yes a block would count as that. Is there a bug that a Blind will prevent the 20 second cooldown?

I too use the skill for closing in on an oppenent, rarely ( I won’t say never) for anything else. Yeah, I think the object was clearly to prevent elementalists from escaping at will, but the effect is pretty small imo. If someone is still chasing me after 20 seconds lol, which has happened like once since game launch, I am not going to suffer permanent emotional damage if they catch me for a change.