They also reduced Lightning Flash’s cooldown and increased its damage. And it’s still an instant skill, so it’s likely that you can still USE it while stunned, you’ll just still be stunned on arrival, which honestly amounts to much of the same thing. The Mesmer’s #2 skill on their staff works like that and the movement along usually buys you enough time to eat the stun and continue on your merry way.
I gotta say, if the supposed leaked patch notes are accurate, I’m actually really excited. A lot more Ele builds will be a lot more viable now.
Oh, great, you get 500-600 more damage from Lightning Flash, so USEFUL. Especially to anything that isn’t DD and uses it to port away from people not TO them.
Hey, if you insist on never using the skill to its full potential, that’s your choice, but it’s going to be an interesting trick Eles can pull.
(Also, S/D also uses Lightning Flash to land Churning Earth.)
Yea churning is not impossibe to land unless your noobing it up. If you count dodges and are familiar with the class you are fighting then you have a good idea of how many stun breaks or invulns it has.
Even if they do dodge it thats a blown dodge either way everyone is scared of churning earth.
Nevertheless, Lightning Flash not only makes CE much easier to land but also much safer to use in general. Putting aside that most professions have some sort of CC that can knock you out of it, they can also just wail on you for three seconds while you’re sitting there channeling. CE deals a lot of damage, but I certainly don’t want to give a warrior time to get off his full Hundred Blades.
So while you can sometimes get away with popping CE in the middle of the enemy team or zerg, I generally prefer to channel it 900 units away and flash on top of them.
No? The last thing I want to do with a mesmer or thief is port into them.
Because obviously there are only 3 professions in GW2 : thief, mesmer and elementalist…
And if I agree they are not the main professions I use flash to, flashing to them can still prove useful in some situation… To interrupt a stomp with gust for example you better be in contact with your target (and I’d had that ease the rezing after the interrupt…)…
Now I agree damages have never been something very important with that skill…But if you really only use it to go away from your target you are wasting it…
When I roam, since I zerg rarely, those are the professions I see most often.
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