Guild Wars 2

Well a shorter ranged version anyway.

Note : You must be using a kit (any will do) for this to work.

One of the biggest complaints I hear about Jump Shot is the fact that it has a long stomp animation which is both incredibly easy to dodge and makes the move useless when trying to run away as it basically immobilizes you for 1 second at the target location.

It is however possible to cancel the stomp animation basically allowing you to move as soon as you reach where you targeted (You loose the end stomp if you do this.)
This is performed by:

Using Jump Shot.
Immediately switch to any kit.
Immediately drop the kit using the Weapon Swap button you will still be in the kit but your free to move around again.

What this does is that while you are in the air from Jump Shot it will cancel the animation which means that you will have your air momentum carry on and you will be able to freely move as soon as you reach your destination basically making it like ride the lightning with no end animation. (How the skill should be!)

How and Why does this work you may ask:
All animations in this game can usually be cancelled by dodging or pressing the escape key however unlike most moves in the game Jump Shot puts you into the air and you can’t dodge or move in the air. Other professions have this problem too most noticeably is the rangers final hit in the sword auto attack chain (Which sees a lot of complaints for this reason) Warrior Axe F1, Guardian Hammer 2 and a whole bunch of other moves also suffer from this as well.

However Weapon Swapping cancels all moves even if you are in the air because the game tells itself
“This person is no longer using this weapon, check for any current animations and cancel them”
Dropping Kits counts as a weapon swap so Jump Shots animation cancels when you drop a kit in mid-air.
This also works with Acid Bomb (Elixir Gun #4)

TL:DR
Use Jump Shot
Switch To Kit
Drop Kit with the ` key or whatever you use for your Weapon Swap Keybind

This is useful to escape ennemy, and make your traveling a bit faster.

Once you start using it, you can’t stop

Thanks for the tip! I was not aware of this

Kardiamond.6952:

This is useful to escape ennemy, and make your traveling a bit faster.

Once you start using it, you can’t stop

Totally, being honest more often than not I perform the trick, Jump Shot causes a red circle which gives you easily enough time to react to it and dodge so trying to actually hit anyone with the stomp is painfully difficult unless there immobilized in which case there are a lot of other things I’d rather be doing if I land a net shot in PvP.

Well If you want to use it during a figh, you can’t do it without setup.

1- Net short → Jump shot
2- Stability overcharged shot → Jumpshot
3- Supply crate → Jumpshot
4- People rezzing an ennemy? Come form behind → Jumpshot → 100nade combo
5- downed player → Jumpshot.

Without setup, it’s so annoying to land it on someone. But if you land it both the jump and the stomp, it’s hurt a looot.

Kardiamond.6952:

Well If you want to use it during a figh, you can’t do it without setup.

1- Net short -> Jump shot
2- Stability overcharged shot -> Jumpshot
3- Supply crate -> Jumpshot
4- People rezzing an ennemy? Come form behind -> Jumpshot -> 100nade combo
5- downed player -> Jumpshot.

Without setup, it’s so annoying to land it on someone. But if you land it both the jump and the stomp, it’s hurt a looot.

1. Probably the easiest way to combo with it, but requires a net shot at point blank range, at which point if your playing 100nades you should be going straight into that giving them less time to react with condition removal.

2. Only plausible if you hit them with overcharged shot at point blank usually by the time you cast this reach them and perform jump shot in there face they would have recovered from the stun.

3. Another good one, but I tend to save SK for team fights where making yourself completely vulnerable for 1-2 seconds (In case you miss someone with SK.) seems like a real risk to take.

4. Not gonna argue here, this is why you can’t underestimate an engineer in SPvP stand still and he will mess you up.

5. This one depends if I’m trying to down them with F, I’ll cancel it just to finish them quicker otherwise it’s pretty effective here.

Even with setup half the time I just don’t want to use it solely for how vulnerable it makes you and in 2v1 I will never use it (Unless with the trick to run away.)

The part where you mention losing the end stomp is what makes me sad, I use both parts of jump shot for some serious damage in PvE.

@Cathaoir

“2. Only plausible if you hit them with overcharged shot at point blank usually by the time you cast this reach them and perform jump shot in there face they would have recovered from the stun.”

With stability, even if you are far from the target, you still can land it before they get up. When I fight a players that are bit slow, I can even try to jump shot + combo them before they react.

You can do the same thing with elixir gun 4 when you’re using it offensively, except you have to press ~ (weapon swap button) instead. Sometimes you want to stay in range after the acid bomb.