Guild Wars 2

What is the DH ability that pulls you in slightly about 3 times over 5 seconds? I don’t see any spell effects on the ground when this happens. It is truly aggravating as a thief as when I dodge at the end of one of the pulls, it cancels the dodge (mid dodge animation, endurance used) and pulls me in again. If I [shadowstep] 1200 units during one of the pulls, I will immediately be pulled down again after the teleport. Is this a bug?

F1 virtue is a single pull.
GS 5 one time pull on hit.
Dragons maw is not a pull but will lock you down unless you know how to get out.

You are thinking of Mesmer gravity well that pulls each tick.

I don’t think it is gravity well, as I see that animation, and it makes you float. After looking up skills the effect mostly resembles hammers ring if warding, as I know that will cancel dodge attempts through it. I haven’t seen it’s animation since I’ve encountered it in wvw though. But knocking me down after using my only stun break to 1200 units away is pretty obnoxious.

Its probably LB 5 for Guard. Named Hunters Ward, its an aoe dmg that casts circles which cc people. It also doesn’t show up like 90% of the time. And often takes away more than 5 stacks of stab when you are getting out. Its fun

It’s Dragon’s Maw – Dragon Hunter Elite ability. As a thief if you shortbow 5 out or shadow step out you still get knocked down wherever you shadow step to. I very much doubt that’s intended – particularly with the shadow step as that is supposed to be a stun break.

Why wouldn’t you say it’s intended? Stun breaking breaks you out of a stun or being knocked down, but as you cross a hard CC threshold you need a stack of Stability to cross unimpeded.

That’s how all the CC works and it works both ways. For and against the Guardian.

If I simply Stun Break Gravity Well I still get pulled up by the next pulse.

It’s Dragon’s Maw, but just like Longbow #5 bug it fails sometimes to show up its animation at all and it looks like there’s nothing

Somebody already explained this better than I will here but here it is:

The “teleport” abilities make you move very fast to one direction using the most beneficial way. So you won’t get the effect of everything between you and your destination. So with a teleport you can get out of the harm’s way of AoE because the program finds another route. If you are encircled with something the program can not find a safe route so you will be knocked down.

For example mesmer Portal is an exception. It moves you from point A to B without you being in between.