Guild Wars 2

LOL. Just LOL. Some nice insult to the fatal injuries.

Say thank you to druid for breaking it

Man, when Anet nerfs you, they don’t just tone down stuff that is OP, they paralyze you, kick you while you are down, and spit in your face…just for good measure.

kittening anet.

It was working so good, using this skill in mid-air and didn’t break anything. Why get rid of it ?! I am really sad now, I want mid-air use of this skill back !

This is like 10th nerf for this skill.

Makes you appreciate the fantastic terrain design again, with all the great normal / collision maps, that will make sure to let you know they are still working properly (against you)…

Seriously why did this get changed? There weren’t any issues with this, ever?

DragonHeart.7201:

Seriously why did this get changed? There weren’t any issues with this, ever?

Too further destroy ele playing experience. The same reason goes for new fire*tenis*ball. The same reason goes for those nerfs and calling them balance to to iritate us and implement to our minds that ele won’t get anything proper.

Fixing things which aren’t broken. First, Bifrost projectiles, then Trolo-ball and auras now this.

Brb, rerolling guardian. Enough is enough…

Mem no Fushia.7604:

DragonHeart.7201:

Seriously why did this get changed? There weren’t any issues with this, ever?

Too further destroy ele playing experience. The same reason goes for new fire*tenis*ball. The same reason goes for those nerfs and calling them balance to to iritate us and implement to our minds that ele won’t get anything proper.

Apparently uhuh. I do get why they nerf and change stuff every once in a while, I don’t like it, but it’s alright. Changing ride the lightening just because druid’s skill is being a pain, just feels like anet loves pestering ele’s at this point.

Glad I ditched ele (got tired of so much rotation play), this was my favorite thing about the class. So much fun was had with this skill. No more. I don’t mind, but I’m sure a lot of ele mains are crying.

surely a bug! Imo we should go to bug forum and spam this issue until we get proper response from anet(like that’s ever gonna happen lol)

Nutshel.7264:

surely a bug! Imo we should go to bug forum and spam this issue until we get proper response from anet(like that’s ever gonna happen lol)

It’s in the patchnotes…

“Ride the Lightning: This ability is no longer able to be used in midair.”

They patched RTL and other skills that could be used mid-air because of WvW. Druids were the main culprits but they could use GS leap — switch to staff mid air – and use Ancestral Grace to get into towers/keeps bypassing those pesky walls/gates. This was for both inner and outer. A few other classes could do this as well hence the reaction of all skills that could possibly do similar being nerfed instead of maybe just putting up invisible walls.

Instead of restricting this to wvw paddock where all this matter anyway they choose lazy way… again. ;_;

We can thank Druids and Dragonhunters exploiting in WvW for this one.

RTL was one of the few reasons to go offhand dagger. That and the fact that at least it isn’t warhorn.

Just got back to the game after a roughly 2yr break other a couple weeks last July to play with a friend a little and I am SO P*SSED OFF! (Excuse my language please) I main elementalist, always have since I started, it’s pretty much the only class I like. I’ve used S/D build since the beginning and “Ride the Lightning” skill 4 on dagger offhand was so great to use while bouncing around as an ele. The thing I love about ele is that you don’t stand still and I love jumping around and moving all over and being able to ride the lighting while jumping was great, there wasn’t a restriction. It was great for even jumping over that one rock or something so you don’t have to walk ALL the way around when map exploring or getting to a boss on time or just in general so much better, I hate not being able to jump and do it. It’s seriously driving me crazy to the point that I’m just about to quit again even though I just got back and was planning on staying for Season 3 release. Call me crazy but it frustrates me THAT much. I probably used that skill for more things than anyone could think of. Now it’s completely freaken useless.. I just get stuck on crap all the time, you can’t angle off of things, and it’s just crap for movement unless going in a straight line on a flat ground. JUNK. Absolutely enraged, and to find out that it’s for no apparent reason, it’s making me even more upset. This needs to go back to being able to be used in air.. PLEASE ANET. Bad enough you nerfed my Ice Bow and Lightning hammer, why my only free fast moving evasion..please bring it back. I’ll be writing a ticket saying this same thing. -Lady Of Phoenix <3

Mystical Magic.5613:

Just got back to the game after a roughly 2yr break other a couple weeks last July to play with a friend a little and I am SO P*SSED OFF! (Excuse my language please) I main elementalist, always have since I started, it’s pretty much the only class I like. I’ve used S/D build since the beginning and “Ride the Lightning” skill 4 on dagger offhand was so great to use while bouncing around as an ele. The thing I love about ele is that you don’t stand still and I love jumping around and moving all over and being able to ride the lighting while jumping was great, there wasn’t a restriction. It was great for even jumping over that one rock or something so you don’t have to walk ALL the way around when map exploring or getting to a boss on time or just in general so much better, I hate not being able to jump and do it. It’s seriously driving me crazy to the point that I’m just about to quit again even though I just got back and was planning on staying for Season 3 release. Call me crazy but it frustrates me THAT much. I probably used that skill for more things than anyone could think of. Now it’s completely freaken useless.. I just get stuck on crap all the time, you can’t angle off of things, and it’s just crap for movement unless going in a straight line on a flat ground. JUNK. Absolutely enraged, and to find out that it’s for no apparent reason, it’s making me even more upset. This needs to go back to being able to be used in air.. PLEASE ANET. Bad enough you nerfed my Ice Bow and Lightning hammer, why my only free fast moving evasion..please bring it back. I’ll be writing a ticket saying this same thing. -Lady Of Phoenix <3

Necros dont need shovels! they use magic

but yeh it was a pretty annoying change though

movement on ele didnt feel fluid anymore for such a long time before i got somewhat used to the change
I also dont think there were any serious glitches with RTL in PvP/WvW

It was just druid because he could basically leap very far with gs and then have another leap skill while already being far in the air

I don’t play ele but what is the purpose of jumping rtl?

I miss to jump RTL as much as anyone else. Though, if I was asking for a change or a reversal of old nerfs it would be lowering the cooldown on that skill back to 14 seconds.
That mobility as well as the power to disengage and reset any fight in PvP was too strong and therefor the nerf needed back then. But look at what changed over the years. Everyone is ten times more mobile than they used to be. Everyone has a leap, teleport, jump or anything like that on a WAY lower cooldown these days.

Off-hand dagger was always the mobile brawler weapon of choice. There should be a reason to ever use it over focus which is the far superior choice right now.

It says a lot about a balance team if they can go back on changes which turned out to bad choices or which worked at the time but are way too much now. We have not seen enough of this over the years, if you ask me.

Orangensaft.7139:

Necros dont need shovels! they use magic

but yeh it was a pretty annoying change though

movement on ele didnt feel fluid anymore for such a long time before i got somewhat used to the change
I also dont think there were any serious glitches with RTL in PvP/WvW

It was just druid because he could basically leap very far with gs and then have another leap skill while already being far in the air

Explain what you mean about druid.

‘in the air’— what are you talking about?

EnderzShadow.2506:

Orangensaft.7139:

Necros dont need shovels! they use magic

but yeh it was a pretty annoying change though

movement on ele didnt feel fluid anymore for such a long time before i got somewhat used to the change
I also dont think there were any serious glitches with RTL in PvP/WvW

It was just druid because he could basically leap very far with gs and then have another leap skill while already being far in the air

Explain what you mean about druid.

‘in the air’— what are you talking about?

You could use skill 3 of staff on druid (Ancestral Grace) in midair (for example after leaping of a cliff with Greatsword 3) to “jump” even further and this allowed druid to glitch into several towers or keeps in WvW
you could get into both Lordrooms (over outer and inner wall) of the Desert Borderlands with this glitch for example

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Ancestral_Grace

Anet then changed it so you couldnt use Ancestral Grace in midair anymore but that also changed it for RTL from ele which wasnt really a problem because you fell down far quicker then on Ancestral Grace which let you leap further in a straight line if you could aim at the right spot

I think at this point it’s time to unnerf the range of RtL. A little bit maybe? If they’re feeling extra generous maybe the CD a tiny bit, but come on.

At least give us the range back. This was one of the skills that sold me on making an ele to begin with.

Ele has so much more going for it and I don’t regret making one, but man. I miss zapping around everywhere.

Not to mention the RtL bug that overshoots even stationary targets that’s been in the game for > 2 years..

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DAYiEMR-Rv8