Guild Wars 2

People may have been using it to escape in PvP, but that’s something I’ve never done in PvE once in 9 months of playing. I use autotargetting, and if I tried it, I would get fired backwards at the enemy (I thought skills were changed to not fire behind us in past patches?).

As it is now, I have to go into combat with an ambient mob to put on some speed, which of course slows me to combat speed, making the skill quite useless. And now that the cooldown is doubled when no target is hit, you have to target it for something under 1200 feet, making the effective range even less.

It’s currently blanket punishing everyone for a cheap PvP tactic a minority of people use. Splitting skills may be something you want to keep to a minimum, but if you can’t think of a way that it punishes only PvP players, it’s needed here.

I agree completely. If the devs want to get coser to balancing the professions, some skills will need to be split, and RTL is a good example. Right now PvE elementalists are unnecessarily slow.
Remember, being too slow achieves nothing in PvE. It only spoils part of the fun, and game patches should NEVER do that. This is a game after all. It’s supposed to be fun.

Considering wvw is part of pve I doubt that will happen.

Can’t they do a PvE/WvW split? The un-nerfed RtL was in no way game breaking in PvE to my knowledge.

Engineer with rifle and elixer gun is the closest thing we’ll get to prenerf RTL in regards to mobility.

Meanwhile, Ranger GS3 is an 1100 yard leap with no target penalty on a 9-12 second cooldown, and we use it to escape trouble all the time.