Guild Wars 2

A nerf on a buggy skill. At least fix the bugs along with a nerf to balance it out.

Now it has been nerfed from fun and buggy to just a buggy gap-closing nuke.

Great.

The thing is, RTL is now additionally bugged. 7 out of 10 times I used it, it stopped my character movement and didn’t resume until I released the movement key and pressed it again, a huge annoyance.
Also, stealth nerf is baaaad, Assrenanet.

@Antiriad – again, that has been happening to me for at least 2 weeks. Not a recent change, but I too noticed that (where movement stops after RTL, annoying when u r trying to use it to move faster).

Again, I will reiterate, this is the same as it has been for a while now. Not sure what you guys are seeing but the image in one of the first posts has been the way it has been for at least 1 week if not 2.

And i repeat that this has just changed. I used RTL to skip a (pretty big) part of the eternal battleground’s jumping puzzle until the day before the patch, after it i can’t do that anymore

I can confirm that RTL has been doing the “fall” thing and stopping character movement after the attack before this patch occurred. I was playing the night before the patch. However, I only picked up D/D a week or so ago. I’m not sure what it was like before then.

You mean to tell me I can’t do this now:

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yep, no more escapes like that. That’s what i’ll miss most

RIP RTL~
I miss all these good time with you.

Well, kitten #8230;.

At least it still looks cool I guess.

Intigo.1653:

You mean to tell me I can’t do this now:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3livg-UwU6Y

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I’ve tried it 60 seconds ago and had to issues. I was able to easily use RTL the same way you did.

Perhaps the whole situation isn’t working as intended. I’m sure changes like that would be announced. I’ll give anet some credit to their notes and, for the time being, believe that it’s a bug. Hopefully we can get some information from them one way or the other.

I agree with Furby. They may have been trying to fix RTL and introduced some kind of inconsistent bug. Not sure ..

It would be great if somebody can show a video of what was possible with RTL and is not possible anymore so we can try to reproduce it. That RTL “leap” in WvW done by Intigo is still working and I’ve been able to reproduce it 3 times in a row.

Not only some PvP things, but my Guardian’s Leap of Faith seems to stop when reaching the ledges too. I think they’re changing all sort of “Leap” skills because they made some unreachable places… reachable.

I got plenty of screens of me getting outside the game’s playable area using said skills =p

There was no reason to change this. As I can do similar things with other classes.

Now you can’t even RTL over distances where you can jump, like from clocktower to one of the rooftops on Khylo. This is ridiculous. kitten arenanet and their kitteny balancing policy.

This is pretty unfortunate, as I really enjoyed taking full advantage of that “feature”.

However I can see why it was done, as you could get to ledges that you otherwise wouldn’t be able to get to, or be able to jump gaps that you would otherwise not be able to get to or have to go around the long way.

Other similar skills, like Warrior’s GS Rush, were not able to do midair movement like RTL, which was quite imbalanced so it had to be looked at eventually, and tbh while I would have liked Rush to be changed to work like RTL, I’m not surprised it didn’t work out that way either.

This happened at arenanet some time ago:

Developer A: “Hey, eles seem to be having fun with ride the lightning!”
Developer B: “Preposterous, nerf the kitten out of it! We can’t have eles having fun. They should suck on my kitten because I once lost to a frost mage in wow. kitten YOU ELES kitten YOU!”

True story.

Can anyone link me a video demonstrating what was possible before with RTL and cannot get it to work after the patch, please?

Thanks.

Arcane shielding was also stealth nerfed to 10%… I’m sick of this game and areanents kitten dev team.

What in kittens name? That was one of my favourite things to do when going somewhere far ahead and starting out on a cliff or something. I never did anything useful with it and only had fun. ANet, you just kittened some of my fun.

Wait wait what? What was done to Arcane Shield?

The arcane shield from the final shielding trait now triggers at 10% health instead of 25%. I.e. never because you’re dead if you get below 20% because they oneshot you.

lol.. kitten you arenanet, just kitten you

I noticed another change – when you use jump plus RTL going across or into water, you no longer travel the full distance, you stop as soon as you hit the water. Pretty annoying.

Antiriad.7160:

The thing is, RTL is now additionally bugged. 7 out of 10 times I used it, it stopped my character movement and didn’t resume until I released the movement key and pressed it again, a huge annoyance.
Also, stealth nerf is baaaad, Assrenanet.

I noticed this too. Happened to me a lot last night.

used RTL 3 times so far tonight & all 3 times I went absolutely nowhere, just a dead stop…
broken kitten skill. Love this class but what a joke, these bugs are killing my enjoyment of it.