Staff- Earth 3, Thief's Shadow Shot

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Posted by: Arganthium.5638

Arganthium.5638

I’m about to post this in the thief forum as well, I feel that this would be useful information for both thieves and eles to have.

Basically, long story short, I’m hunting an ele on my thief in WvW yesterday. The ele is running staff, and pulls out Earth 3 (Magnetic Aura). Purely by accident, I used shadow shot (the D/P combination that grants a blind, shadow step, and decent damage). The shadow shot hit the ele’s shield, bounced off, and hit me… And the ele actually shadowstepped towards me.

Maybe if somebody wanted to post a video of this tactic or something, that would be great, but I thought I’d stop by and allow you guys this piece of information. For most of you, it probably will never happen, but just in case, it’s a method we can use that works as a crude form of pull, but still a very useful and relatively cheap pull at that.

~Arctu Spackle Yarba, Asuran Thief~

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Posted by: eldain stenlund.4306

eldain stenlund.4306

lol.. it should deflect. not pull.. but i still see how it worked that way.
seems like a bug if you ask me.
Your hit should have been “miss” or something similar instead.

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Posted by: Arganthium.5638

Arganthium.5638

lol.. it should deflect. not pull.. but i still see how it worked that way.
seems like a bug if you ask me.
Your hit should have been “miss” or something similar instead.

Sorry, I might not have made it clear. You’re right that it didn’t technically “pull”; it did deflect. However, the thing with Shadow Shot is- the shot blinds and shadowsteps towards the target, and once you shadowstep, you hit him/her with your dagger. Since the shot rebounded and hit me instead, though, the deflection turned the attack from my own into the ele’s, effectively making the ele shadowstep towards me as if it had fired the shot. That’s why I called it a “pull”, because it’s basically the same concept, just a lot cruder.

Doubt it’s a bug though, IMO it’s a perfectly legitimate tactic. If ele’s (or any other profession’s) reflection makes the projectile turn into your own, and thus hit you/your allies, it would make perfect sense that the effects of the projectiles also affect you and enemies the same way that they would have done if you had fired the shot.

Also, technically, because the shot comes with a blind, once the ele shadowstepped towards me, and the second part of Shadow Shot came in (the stab with the dagger, which deals the damage), I’m guessing the two negated one another out, so that no damage was actually done, just a shadowstep.

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Posted by: paleeshi.1924

paleeshi.1924

Lol thats pretty funny. Though it makes sense. Now i’m trying come up with other projectile skills that could be used in a similar way. :-P

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Posted by: Arganthium.5638

Arganthium.5638

Lol.

Scorpion Wire- bounces off, pulls you to reflection? :P

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Posted by: emikochan.8504

emikochan.8504

You can also reflect clone causing abilities from mesmers to get your own (unlimited) suppy of clones (if it hasn’t been patched..)

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