Guild Wars 2

Instead of disabling the use of this utility due to it being bugged, why don’t they change the functionality of it (only for underwater) to function like lightning reflexes does for Rangers (underwater) if they don’t want to fix the bug?

For those who aren’t aware

Ranger Underwater Lightning Reflexes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60gzy8AQenE

Engineer Rocket Boots
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5kRFs7T9qE

i dont know why it isnt working as lightning reflexes to begin with if it was meant to do the exact thing blast player back to safety or simply gain some distance .

At the moment, the only mechanical reason I can see for the difference is that Lightning Reflexes doesn’t move you 900 units back or act as a blast finisher, and also doesn’t self-CC you while removing you from hostile CC. Nor does, as I notice on the wiki, Stability prevent Lightning Reflexes from functioning.

I think the only reason Rocket Boots works the way it does to begin with is because it was supposed to be funny to send yourself zipping backward, flopping helplessly on the ground because your stunbreak stuns you while the guy trying to stab you to death runs over and does his thing.