Guild Wars 2

As some may remember, engineers were able to use Rocket Boots underwater when the game was released; however, a patch several weeks later removed them from being able to be equipped underwater because, as the patch notes stated, of a bug that allowed engineers to be blasted sky-high out of the water (here’s a video of the bug). It was then said that removing access to them was a temporary fix, but they were never re-introduced. Now that rocket boots have been rewritten and have entirely different function, it’s hardly imaginable that this bug would still occur. Being able to close distance with an enemy quickly would be useful for setting off a point-blank Scatter Mines. Is there a possibility Rocket Boots will be introduced in a future patch, or is there some other reason they were removed from underwater combat that I wasn’t aware of?

That wasn’t a bug. That was a feature that demonstrated that the skill was working properly both on land and underwater. ANet just doesn’t like fun and enjoys homogenizing the classes, so they removed it from underwater play. That said, no, Rocket Boots will probably not be making a come-back to underwater play.

I’d actually be interested in a dev response to this one – it has been months since it was ‘temporarily’ disabled, after all, and at this point it’s not even the same skill, having been turned from a comic relief skill to an actually fairly interesting one that makes us one of the most mobile classes in the game.

Anymras.5729:

I’d actually be interested in a dev response to this one – it has been months since it was ‘temporarily’ disabled, after all, and at this point it’s not even the same skill, having been turned from a comic relief skill to an actually fairly interesting one that makes us one of the most mobile classes in the game.

I have to agree with you here. The only problem that I can see is that the synergy between SS and RB would function similarly to the pre Lightning Reflexes underwater nerf. I would rather it remain non functional underwater than for them to revoke its current applications on land to accomodate any changes underwater.

If you want a dev response, don’t post in the Engineer forum.

They’ve actually posted more on these boards (if only to go “Hey, yeah, we do look at these”) in the last few weeks than most of the rest of the time the game’s been out. It’s not impossible that they might deign to give us some hint as to whether Rocket Boots is still temporarily disabled or whether it’s permanent.

New Rocket Boots underwater would be ridiculous. In a good way.

They’re already ridiculous, in a hilarious way – never, ever use them in a jumping puzzle if they’re not important for a particular shortcut you’re trying, unless you want to feel really silly and start the puzzle over again.

I’ve alway felt mobility underwater to be sluggish. Having a gap closer like RB underwater would make me very happy.