Pretty much every movement skill has issues sometimes when you use them on a moving target. Bull’s charge randomly not reaching your target even though you’re in range. Rush getting you stuck in that awkward stance between the rush and the actual hit for more than a second. Well and then there is illusionary leap… don’t think I have to say more.
I would say leap of faith is one of the more reliable movement skills. The thing that is shown in the video usually only happens when you use it from close range on a moving target from my experience. It’s one of the drawbacks of the combat system gw2 has and I don’t even know if it’s possible to fix it without messing up something else since a lot of movement skills still hit unreliably even after quite a bunch of fixes and buffs. You should look up how often they tried to fix rush and bull’s charge.
The game was calculating where your buddy was going to be, but he ruse’d you, causing the leap to go awry.
My ‘buddy’ is an NPC… the game knows exactly where he’s going to be at all times.
The NPC was not about to use any rush or movement skill of their own, this bug happens all the time against both players and NPCs in different situations, when an enemy is moving towards, away or even standing still.
It’s a bug that’s been around since 2012 due to poor coding, it used to be a lot worse and they tried to patch it over a year ago, but the bug has remained, just at a lower rate.
