Guild Wars 2

I have tried to use lightning flash on a couple jump puzzles to to port from one platform to another and it doesn’t work very well. I believe it works if the platforms are on the same level as one another but if they aren’t you just flash and don’t move from your original location. Is this working as intended to prevent easier travel/movement or is it a bug?

If this is working as intended I would love to see this changed. Its an awesome utility but should work in all scenarios IMO.

Teleports work like Shadow Steps in this game similar to GW1. You can only teleport if the place you want to go is within X units of pathfinding to the destination. So you can teleport to a floor above you, but only if you’re somewhere near the stairs. If the game can’t pathfind to where you want to go, it won’t teleport you.

Hope this clears it up.

Well there are certain places it will not let you port, you just have to get used to them, personally I enjoy trying to master all of the teleport spots in sPvP.

Ryld.1340:

Teleports work like Shadow Steps in this game similar to GW1. You can only teleport if the place you want to go is within X units of pathfinding to the destination. So you can teleport to a floor above you, but only if you’re somewhere near the stairs. If the game can’t pathfind to where you want to go, it won’t teleport you.

Hope this clears it up.

That does make sense. Thanks for the reply. Still kind of bums me out though. I would love to use this to cross areas instead of jumping but if it cant path-find to it, it just wont work. Oh well, pretty minor really. =)

Ryld.1340:

Teleports work like Shadow Steps in this game similar to GW1. You can only teleport if the place you want to go is within X units of pathfinding to the destination. So you can teleport to a floor above you, but only if you’re somewhere near the stairs. If the game can’t pathfind to where you want to go, it won’t teleport you.

Hope this clears it up.

Wrong. Or atleast bugged if that´s right.
It frequently doesn´t let you flash up stairs even if your at the bottom of them, also smaller elevations/cliffs on map seem to make it problematic to flash up/down them.

In general, flat ground works and low angles of elevarion work, but anything other than that is just testing your luck.

As for if it´s intended or not….nobody can really tell.

Range feels so short on this. Is it because of it doing damage that its so much shorter than mesmer port? Not that we need more dependance on cantrips, but it’d help us out a lot of it was a tiny bit longer range. Feels kinda awkward to me.