I am in freaking love with the change to this skill (WvW). I primarily use my Engineer for zerging with a Celestial Juggernaut build and it has been 100% worth the slot since the change.
Prior to this I was using Elixir Gun or Elixir S. Elixir S wasn’t used very often unless I got caught completely off guard and Elixir Gun was mostly used for the stunbreak if my Stability got stripped or occasionally to sit in the Elixir Bomb.
Rocket Boots however has been great for blasting Regenerating Mist or Healing Turret while repositioning or just to move around the field. Rocket Kick is also great when I’m having any 1v1/X paired with Incendiary Ammo and other Flamethrower skills for a nasty 5k+ Burn burst.
I don’t imagine many people are using this skill at the moment but I just wanted to gush over how much I’m enjoying it.
oh also had to add this, if you want a bit of fun ill give you a hint: slick+rocket boots. You might notice something when you charge at enemies mwahahahaha >:)
Finally, smashing someone with 2400 leap against classes who have teleport mechanics like thief shadowstep and Elementalist Flash or Mesmer Blink. It feels so good to be able to jump on them instead of relying on magnet. Thanks anet.
drop weapon cancels it, but you dont get superspeed until the aftercast plays… so thats about the only thing ive to be not freakin amazing about rocket boots now.
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I am so glad you guys mentioned this, I missed it in the patch notes. I dropped Alchemy for tools. I’m never going back! Tool kit and super jumps FTW!!!
I am so glad you guys mentioned this, I missed it in the patch notes. I dropped Alchemy for tools. I’m never going back! Tool kit and super jumps FTW!!!
It is not the same. Tools is good but alchemy gives you more survivability. I really love toolkit and i like RB really much but without alchemy you are much weaker, especially to conditions. You can try to rely on AED but it is something high risk / high rework . I love it but i think that alchemy with HT is better .
You guys made me download the patch just to check this rockets boots.
Well…it was worth the download time.
I usually come to complain about rifle , but a single stupid skill like this , that is able to take back the “fun factor” is amazing.
This time i had to log in to share the happyness for rocket boots and to compliment the devs for that.
There is something else that can potentially add to the “fun factor” , like Personal Battering Ram .
Also , thre is the “satisfaction factor” when playing WvW with mortar and the traits Orbital Command kicks in in the middle of enemy zerg every 15 seconds …. oh….satisfaction(when there is not tons of reflective boubles).
Yeah , i must admit i got a fun night with this things.
I apologize for my english.
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Same as nirvana, but one thing still irks me about the ammo system in general:
no parallel cooldowns.
untraited, the cooldown for a single boot-jump is 20 seconds.
And while it’s nice to have 2 charges ready at the beginning of a fight, it only lets run one cooldown at a time, resulting in 40sec (traited 32sec) reload time for both charges in total. So after spending two charges in short succession, the advantages are (mostly – thanks to the gadgeteer-changes) gone for the rest of the fight, unless you limit yourself beforehand to keep one charge extra in the backhand, in case you need to get away quickly. Same goes for all other gadgets.
Yes, these changes definitively head in the right direction, but the ammo-system itself still could need some improvements.
in regards to superspeed, I think it’s fine.
with 2 seconds of it you can cover a neat distance beyond the jump range (almost 50% more), which increases your chance to get ooc, if you intend to do so. And even if you don’t want to evacuate a fight, together with scrappers “rapid regeneration” ( in case you run scrapper w/o a hammer) it’s around 1k healing from both ticks you get with it. Pair that with a waterfield (HT tb / eg 5 / mortar 5 + rb tb + rb) and you get a nice load of health without actually deploying the ht or using any other healing skill.
Nice change but considering the crappy damage, it should be around 12-15 sec cd instead of 20. I only use it for mobility (like 99% of the people) and lots of professions have leaps with shorter cooldowns (6-8 sec).
you are going to be able to chain like 15-20 secs of leaps with holosmith before you have to just walk for more than ~1 sec. with just rocket boots, sword, and photon forge 2.
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>I also do believe the toolbelt can give you a little extra distance as well.
on a condi build it can be quite some dps, so it’s definitively a nice skill, but its long aftercast keeps you stuck too long. You can cover more distance with running, especially on swiftness or superspeed. Don’t waste it when fleeing.
Well, usually the scenario is a thief at 10% health burning all their stuff to get away from me. Normally I could do nothing to catch them, but with the new rocket boots even if 2 won’t close the difference, tipping them with a kick is often just enough to touch them for the final blow. :p And yea, it would not help with escape.
Also not talking about the toolbelt, but at least in WvW RB has also been a godsend vs reapers who would have probably murdered me normally as well.
For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards,
for there you have been and there you will long to return.
On one hand its kinda cumbersome to use still, since we cant aim in the direction we want to go (this is only a problem when you are immobilized though) so you can put your self in bad situations if you aren’t careful.
But the ability to GTFO of a bad situation really quickly is a godsend, also catching up to fleeing foes that have shadow steps/teleports really helps landing those final bits of damage that they don’t expect.
Well, immobilize has long been OP, given the love for condis.
On a side note, is tools really worth taking? I would imagine it should be taken over inventions, but I really don’t know, since alchemy contributes more to survival.
For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards,
for there you have been and there you will long to return.
Open World PvE – It’s easy. Use whatever you want.
Raids/Fractals – I think tools is meta for the %damage increase.
WvW – Definitely worth taking for mobility + the toolkit trait
PvP – Tough to say. I run it. It’s fun, but it’s probably worse than the alternative. You’re giving up alchemy or inventions to get it, and those do more to keep you alive than tools will.
I’ve been using rocket boots with the FT Condi Engi build, replacing the Toolkit. It was completely worth it. The mobility makes such a huge difference, and I get another source of burning, not to mention the blast finishers.
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I don’t imagine many people are using this skill at the moment but I just wanted to gush over how much I’m enjoying it.
I use it in sPvp and PvE, and will probably will do so as well in WvW. And I don’t know about you, but I run it with gadgeteer (which gives superspeed just for a reminder) and I get quite a bit of value from it, as well as upgrading a.e.d
