Guild Wars 2

This could pertain to all teleport abilities but I don’t play around to much with the other teleports so I’m not 100% sure.

Lighting Flash is a wicked spell, allowing us to teleport to target location and even during another skill, those of you who know Churning earth know what I’m on about.

I have a grip with LF though. When trying to teleport away from someone it is hard to get the max range whilst concentrating on not being killed.

I would like the ground target to, instead of the skill failing as it does now, I would like it to port you to max distance in that direction if cast out of range.

So if you accidentally click 1 mtr out of range you will, after this change, teleport to max range instead of the skill failing and you having to press it again.

It would be good to have an option for this for all ground target skills: “Cast ground target skills at max range if the ground target is our of range”

I proposed this some time ago. It’s true, when you use LF as an escape tool, chances are you’ll blink 600 range and not 900 just to make sure you get “away” (which isn’t that far away) asap.

or we can use some visible circle around the character that define the range of lightning flash

That’s a good idea Noein

Or dont let us scroll our mose out of max range. So it always stays green.

both are great ideas, I too hope for LF to be improved

That would be a great change for all teleport skills in general. If you click a point out of range, just go as far as possible in that direction. I would love that.

Though its possible the current implementation is an intentional balancing tool. Given the overal utility of teleports, they want them to be somewhat difficult to use. Hard to say for sure whether thats the case or not.

I know your problems. You need to get a feel for the range in any aspact of the game.

i play with fast ground targeting so i dont even see the green/red circle.
Also think of burning speed or magnetic grasp. If you miss the range you miss the skill.

How does fast ground targeting work with lightning flash? Wouldn’t it just port you where you already are? I assume by “fast ground targeting” you mean the option that drops the ground target spells at your feet?

OldRodKS.9758:

How does fast ground targeting work with lightning flash? Wouldn’t it just port you where you already are? I assume by “fast ground targeting” you mean the option that drops the ground target spells at your feet?

Ground targeting is an option that makes certain AoE abilities drop on the ground on the first click of your mouse rather than showing a green circle where they will appear and thus requiring you to click twice.

OldRodKS.9758:

How does fast ground targeting work with lightning flash? Wouldn’t it just port you where you already are? I assume by “fast ground targeting” you mean the option that drops the ground target spells at your feet?

It only drops it at your feet if you click the skill. If you use the skill’s hotkey, it’ll drop the AoE wherever your mouse is pointing at the time.

MrQuizzles.6823:

OldRodKS.9758:

How does fast ground targeting work with lightning flash? Wouldn’t it just port you where you already are? I assume by “fast ground targeting” you mean the option that drops the ground target spells at your feet?

It only drops it at your feet if you click the skill. If you use the skill’s hotkey, it’ll drop the AoE wherever your mouse is pointing at the time.

Ah, that’s good to know! Thanks!