Guild Wars 2

It seems like both, Acid Bomb and Rocket Boots have been changed. Perhaps unintentionally.

Here’s a video to show what I’m talking about: https://streamable.com/m79n

This jump used to be easily possible with both skills, even after the patch when they made swiftness not affect leaps anymore. So I’m not sure when these skills got messed up or what exactly happened.

It’s not a huge deal for most people and certainly not at all in ‘normal’ gameplay, however I see this trend of interesting movement mechanics getting deleted from the game.

- It all started with the blink mechanic changes that no longer allowed targeting blinks to places without a valid path.
While this is an improvement for most blink skills, it also removed interesting/fun mechanics for Infiltrator’s Arrow and Flesh Wurm. This along with the Spectral Walk change that no longer allowed it to be cast mid-air, completely removed my favorite thing to do in the game. See a video here.

- Then they changed leap skills to not be affected by swiftness, super speed, cripple or chill anymore. This time actually a balance change. I don’t agree with it but at least this time there’s been a clear reasoning provided by the devs. I remember this one caused quite a little bit of an uproar but a week later it was forgotten.

- Finally, they changed Ride the Lightning to no longer be castable mid-air. This was probably a result of the same change being made to the :at that time new druid skill Ancestral Grace, which could be exploited to break into Ogrewatch tower in WvW. Instead of simply adjusting the map, they removed another fun movement mechanic after it’s been in the game for over 3 years.

These are just the most noteable examples off the top of my head. These weren’t gamebreaking mechanics, especially not for competitive gamemodes. They were fun, unique and interesting. Things like that were what kept me in GW2.

Imagine they removed strafejumping from quake 3 before it ever became a thing. Or rocketjumping. These things make games unique. Is it only going to be a matter of time until they remove dodge-jumping and animation canceling?

The good old days:

https://youtu.be/2y_SgctUi4g

Right!?! I loved being able to case Ancestral Grace midair… it was so fun. It screwed my playstyle for 3 weeks after the patch, because I was always jumping before I cast it, so I wouldn’t get blocked by some random edge… now I didn’t cast it at all, so I got blocked in another way ^^

That video made me miss the old skill effects.

At least Engie jumps should be on par with the other professions. I don’t like this at all.

The main problem with Rocket Boots as of now is that it lost a big part of his value: the fact that it was the only leap in the game that was not affected by chill and cripple (it removes them prior to the leap along with immobilize). So really, while other leap skills just have a different functionality now (ex: warrior’s “Rush” travels a shorter distance with swiftness, but goes further than it used to when affected by chill and cripple), Rocket Boots was just plain nerfed by this change. With the recent change to Slick Shoes, gadgets are once again useless.

You should face forward with rocket boots, not down, that’ll remove the break in mid air Or even better, just don’t hold your right mouse button after you’ve chosen the direction, tab left right on keys, wich adjusts the character targeting to be faced straight forward and then jump.

Xyonon.3987:

You should face forward with rocket boots, not down, that’ll remove the break in mid air Or even better, just don’t hold your right mouse button after you’ve chosen the direction, tab left right on keys, wich adjusts the character targeting to be faced straight forward and then jump.

tried this, no dice. couldnt make it.

insanemaniac.2456:

Xyonon.3987:

You should face forward with rocket boots, not down, that’ll remove the break in mid air Or even better, just don’t hold your right mouse button after you’ve chosen the direction, tab left right on keys, wich adjusts the character targeting to be faced straight forward and then jump.

tried this, no dice. couldnt make it.

Didn’t say you can make THAT jump, but it’s just gonna help a bit in general.

Xyonon.3987:

You should face forward with rocket boots, not down, that’ll remove the break in mid air Or even better, just don’t hold your right mouse button after you’ve chosen the direction, tab left right on keys, wich adjusts the character targeting to be faced straight forward and then jump.

Getting really close with the right camera angle, it makes a big difference. But it’s still not enough.
For acid bomb, the angle doesn’t affect it at all.

Anet can’t seriously think it would be fair that a greatsword guardian can leap farther than an engy with rocket boots. But apparently noone there gives a crap about movement mechanics anymore =(

I do, but I can’t do anything.

What a sad day for engis…