Guild Wars 2

Ride the Lightning now has a secret ability that was not mentioned with the patch notes. A 10% chance to provide a permanent immobilize to yourself at the target’s location.

The only way to break out of it is to use another Ride the Lightning or a teleport ability.

Thoughts? OP? Nerf? Exploit? Bannable issue?

Never seen that. Any chance of a video? Seems easy to reproduce at such a high chance. Would help the community and a-net.

holy crap! its been happening to me but it was always when I used RTL into large groups so I just assumed I was hit by an enemy skill that immobilized me. RTL could be the most fun skill in the game but its so borked it makes it nothing more than an annoyance & a death trap

Really needs to be looked at…. and fixed ASAP!

Just started happening after the last patch.

Yeah I’m experiencing this as well, this skills pathing is so bugged its easily causing half of my deaths.

I am actually having a similar issue on my guardian with leap of faith, not always just every so often, like 2% of the time lol, I’ll just get rooted in place after using the skill. Only recently mind you. Perhaps these issues have a similar cause.

it did that before when combining it just right with mistform.
so did churning earth.

swiftpaw.6397:

I am actually having a similar issue on my guardian with leap of faith, not always just every so often, like 2% of the time lol, I’ll just get rooted in place after using the skill. Only recently mind you. Perhaps these issues have a similar cause.

The leap of faith one has been affecting me on and off since before the last patch (first noticed maybe 1-2 weeks ago). Maybe it’s related, maybe not.

I’ve had this happen a couple times before the patch, once in pve, and once in pvp. PvE I just thought I got stuck or was lagging. PvP I thought someone rooted me so I hit lightning flash really quick. This time after the new patch I’ve noticed it twice now, and it is definately a bug. Until you use some sort of ability that moves you around you are rooted in one spot, and I’ve died a few times to this in PvP. It doesn’t seem to happen a lot, but it does happen and it’s basically a death sentence when it does.

Not entirely sure what causes it.

Magnetic grasp does the same kitten thing. The only thing that helps is stopping and jumping before casting either skill. Otherwise prepare to get stuck in mid air for 3 seconds while your opponent wails on your helpless behind.

Lol, you’d think people would learn to NEVER use RtL as an opener by now until it gets fixed, for me its exclusively an escape/catch up tool.

Magnetic Grasp works better, even if it glitches you’re not stuck in its animation and can cast other skills, somewhat.

It’s not in the patch notes, because the issue existed at least since BWE1 – probably longer but I was neither in the family&friends alpha nor in press beta.

That said, RtL and Magnetic Grasp are quite OP atm – it’s not only a immobilize, but also a uncounterable stun. I think these 2 skills should be nerfed and the stun-component removed without any substitution.

Couldn’t they buff all the other classes with a self stun as well? why do we need to take the nerf?