Guild Wars 2

That’s awesome.

It will probably be bugfixed/nerfed in March, still.

exploits@arena.net, not “advertise”.

This has been around 4ever.
Yes you could call it an exploit but unless you are using it to get to places you aren’t supposed to I wouldn’t worry.
Seeing how hard it is to actually pull off and you can’t really judge exactly where you will land, it isn’t a very practical trick.

I personally think it shows that at one point the Jump Shot on Rifle was going to be much more like the Jump on the Charzooka that you can pickup during Jormag. Which means it would of had a longer distance and no delay at the end but at some point the changed it so it would only go as far as your Rifle range and they did this by basically making you hit a brick wall in midair.

And that is how our Jump shot skill came to be the annoying easy to dodge skill it is 2day.

I would trade that trick for a PROPER jump shot without getting stuck mid air.

Yeah, the current jump shot’s hangtime is horrible.
Let’s jump to location and hover for a bit. Is the engineer wearing anti gravity boots?
As for the topic’s suggestion, I prefer the hitting ‘esc’ key workaround to get rid of that annoying hangtime.

From testing with target dummies in LA this appears to extend the jump shot range from 800 (traited) to 1200 or so.

It seems to increase it to around 900 untraited.

It’s interesting to note how long it’s taking for mods to lock this exploit thread. Just goes to show how often Engineer forums seem to be read by admins!

Oh… interesting. If you remove the range increase trait, you are able to jump shorter horizontal distances, but longer distances when moving at a downward slope. The range increase seems to put the facewall in play. If you go to the vista in LA where you do the jumpshot with the environmental weapon, it’s possible to jump it with our own rifle jumpshot with this method.

Quickly, delete this thread before they fix (nerf) this! :p

Just give jump shot a proper landing animation and we will call it squares ANET.

Best way to get fun things nerfed: post about it on the official forums (including a video and also stating it is a trick and you can do things with it you otherwise can’t).
Second best way: bump the thread containing the find.