Guild Wars 2

I’d like to see the range of lightning flash increased. While running it’s especially hard to gauge it so you stay within the max range, especially when you have to pick a “useful” destination quickly: In critical situations where you want to use it for its main purpose (apart from instant churning earth), to escape.
For comparison: Its range is small compared to RTL and it has much more management overhead and also much higher cooldown.
Suggestion: Increase its range by a factor of 1.5.
Alternative solution: Decrease its cooldown by a factor of 2, making it a more interesting skill in general, outside of very specific builds.

Lightning Flash is pretty good now – what they should do is remove the damage component and reduce the cooldown to match that of the Mesmer Blink.

The damage is pitiful right now and I would much rather have the reduced cooldown like the Mesmer one.

Lightning Flash is pretty good now – what they should do is remove the damage component and reduce the cooldown to match that of the Mesmer Blink.

The damage is pitiful right now and I would much rather have the reduced cooldown like the Mesmer one.

I somewhat agree, however they might be worried about an ele being able to spec 30 into water (taking Cantrips mastery, cantrips grant regen/vigor, and regen clears conditions) and basically being able to use Lightning flash every 24 seconds to clear conditions and grant regen/vigor (assuming a base cooldown of 30 seconds, like mesmer blink) on top of all the other regens and boons the Ele can put up. Could be OP basically.

I know mesmers can trait to reduce the cooldown on blink, but I don’t think they can get regen/vigor/boons from it (nor does the blink spell do any damage to targets).

I would like to see my ability casted anyway even though I click too far, and I then teleport as far as my skill allows.

I would like to see my ability casted anyway even though I click too far, and I then teleport as far as my skill allows.

This I agree with 100%. Just click off in the distance and viola, you teleport to max range.

That’d already be a very great help, yes >_>

Bsquared.3421:

I would like to see my ability casted anyway even though I click too far, and I then teleport as far as my skill allows.

This I agree with 100%. Just click off in the distance and viola, you teleport to max range.

Yeah this would be good for any blink type skill.

Intigo.1653
Lightning Flash is pretty good now – what they should do is remove the damage component and reduce the cooldown to match that of the Mesmer Blink.
The damage is pitiful right now and I would much rather have the reduced cooldown like the Mesmer one.

That would make LF a 30s cd, same as Churning Earth’s, which would be very nice

Eraven.5834
I would like to see my ability casted anyway even though I click too far, and I then teleport as far as my skill allows.

And this would make LF much easier to use, specialy during a fight. Great idea.

Holy kitten that’s genius. Don’t know why it isn’t already like that. I’d love to see blink spells cast at max range if your cursor goes beyond it.

I think all teleport abilities should just cast at max range if you put the cursor beyond max range. It would make all of them better.

theonewhoknocks.8641:

Animosity.5231:

Holy kitten that’s genius. Don’t know why it isn’t already like that. I’d love to see blink spells cast at max range if your cursor goes beyond it.

I pitched that exact idea right after BWE1, on these very forums. And as Arenanet reads everything this clearly wasn’t acceptable to implement.

I only rolled Ele and started visiting these forums in the last month, so sorry I missed it.

ANet just needs to pull their heads out of their kitten Some QoL changes would go a long way, and they need to fix the kittening bugs.

Either way, good idea, and ANet is stupid.