Guild Wars 2

Profession Skills
In this update, you’ll see some changes aimed at normalizing how certain types of skills work. Skills that tether players together now apply Revealed to provide a stronger window of opportunity to players who can successfully land them.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Magnetic_Grasp

If anything the Ele has in it’s repertoire, this skill looks and feels like a tether skill. When Anet said they are normalizing the way tethers work and give them a reveal, why does Magnetic Grasp/Leap not grant the reveal ability. Shouldn’t there be a revealed for the 6 seconds the “grasp is holding”?

Perhaps I am understanding the whole tether/reveal concept the wrong way, so please explain to me why Magnetic Grasp is omitted from the changes done with the last patch.

It’s not a tether and I hope it never becomes one. One of the great things about it (though I admit it doesn’t completely make sense to me) is that you can hit someone with the first skill and then leap to an entirely different target.

Also, if it becomes a tether with reveal, dagger will become even more mandatory for all builds. Anything to deal with thieves is gonna be used by eles.

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It’s not a tether and I hope it never becomes one. One of the great things about it (though I admit it doesn’t completely make sense to me) is that you can hit someone with the first skill and then leap to an entirely different target.

Also, if it becomes a tether with reveal, dagger will become even more mandatory for all builds. Anything to deal with thieves is gonna be used by eles.

The revealed could be applied when Magnetic grasp hits, without losing any of its current functionality – including the odd leap to a second target.
Most other professions (base version or specialization) have a reveal skill to use vs. the usually stealthed professions (Thief, Mesmer). Giving the Ele a reveal skill like most of the others, would just even the chances in one on one fights or small skirmishes.

A tether is something that has something visible that attaches one person to another for a certain period of time (DH Spear of Justice, Druids Elite Siggy…etc)

If you hit a target (say, another player) before they stealth, you can still leap to wherever they move and start cleaving the area until they break stealth. Keep in mind the leap is still 900 range (same as Lightning Flash). Only problem is that the skill flips and goes off cd if you don’t use the leap within ~5 seconds. It is good to know when fighting classes that stealth so I hope they never change the stealth tracking behaviour.

I mostly use the leap finisher through fire fields for the magnetic aura when I can tbh.