Guild Wars 2

Does Protection Injection proc on Overcharged Shot and on Rocket Boots?

I checked it on Heart of the mists and it didn’t work. Does it work anywhere else? Is it supposed to work? Both skills have a description that they give a self knockback.

Should this be added to the known list of bugs?

I’ll test it tonight but AFAIR the trait only applies the Protection if it’s an incoming disable, i.e. not skill-induced.

Actually I think we ought to get that protection. Self-induced knockbacks are so wrong (does any other class have them btw?), it would be nice to at least get some trait synergy with them.

I wish it would work, but I don’t think it’s supposed to. If it did though, Rocket Boots with that auto smoke bomb trait would be really fun to use

They SHOULD work together. Self knockdowns are terrible enough without arbitrarily removing any little benefits that might be tied to it.

not working in WvW either, which basically means not working anywhere…

Yeah, they should work. The skill has a setback and it does give you a knockback just as if an opponent did it to you.

Yarp, I’d file a bug report and see what they say. This is really weird and inconsistent since using Elixir S for the Stability prevents Overcharged Shot KB, which is a somewhat of a precedent that self-induced disable should be within the scope of personally applied boons and traits.

Here’s hoping at some point they’ll ‘fix’ Rocket Boots. We all want to use them, it’s just that stupid self CC/Knockback/AwManWTF effect that bothers us. I love Rocket Kick, and several of the Gadgets that are in Tool Belt Skills. Just wish they weren’t tied to our Utilities…