Guild Wars 2

Maybe it’s just me but it seemed that last night every time I started the stomp on a downed opponent and then hit F4 Distortion during the stomp (with a clone up), the distortion would cancel the stomp and I would have to re-start the stomp again.

Can anyone else confirm?

It worked normally for me.
Got “invulnerable” on ranger’s lightning, warrior’s hammer and guardian’s dome :-/

however, i can’t confirm with clones up since i used F4 without any clones.

you can pop Distortion while stomping “finishing” ppl, and you can also do all the other shatters as well during mid stomp. None of the shatter skills cancels other toggled skills. Means you can BF Shatter. More epic is interrupting warrior’s hammer

Edit, you may miss-hit a utility such as decoy, and it will interrupt stomps.

Other things you can do during a stomp include hitting phase retreat as you start, and then blinking back on top of them as you finish.

Pyroatheist.9031:

Other things you can do during a stomp include hitting phase retreat as you start, and then blinking back on top of them as you finish.

That’s something I did not know, but I’ll think about it, cause I usually blinkstomp thief who TP away

UnknownFreak.2805:

you can pop Distortion while stomping “finishing” ppl, and you can also do all the other shatters as well during mid stomp. None of the shatter skills cancels other toggled skills. Means you can BF Shatter. More epic is interrupting warrior’s hammer

Edit, you may miss-hit a utility such as decoy, and it will interrupt stomps.

Yeah I almost always use Distortion when I stomp but it seemed that more than a few times when I stomped, the opponent never died but was still there on the ground. Maybe they got Aegis from a teammate during the stomp? I was just surprised it happened so often last night.

Xavi.6591:

UnknownFreak.2805:

you can pop Distortion while stomping “finishing” ppl, and you can also do all the other shatters as well during mid stomp. None of the shatter skills cancels other toggled skills. Means you can BF Shatter. More epic is interrupting warrior’s hammer

Edit, you may miss-hit a utility such as decoy, and it will interrupt stomps.

Yeah I almost always use Distortion when I stomp but it seemed that more than a few times when I stomped, the opponent never died but was still there on the ground. Maybe they got Aegis from a teammate during the stomp? I was just surprised it happened so often last night.

you can’t block a stomp.

that happens because either you or the downed player lagged, and their downed body isn’t where you see them. they’re basically desynced, the only way to finish them when that happens is to autoattack them down.

Yeah probably. I was just in wvw now (before wvw shut down) and was able to distortion stomp with no problems. false alarm.

UnknownFreak.2805:

Pyroatheist.9031:

Other things you can do during a stomp include hitting phase retreat as you start, and then blinking back on top of them as you finish.

That’s something I did not know, but I’ll think about it, cause I usually blinkstomp thief who TP away

Its quite useful against theives to phase retreat back so you get a better field of view to see where they teleport to so you can then blink stomp them, also if you phase retreat off some may be so confused they don’t even use their 2 skill so its a simple blink back to stomp.

Phase retreat/blink is very useful in 1vsXs or small group figths when you really don’t want to blow a distortion for the stomp but need to get it off. Even more fun if you have more than 1 person downed and its just a random group fight you can save a wasted stomp on one person by phase retreating off him/her then blinking to a different downed player to finish while someone else you are fighting along side stomps the player you initiated on.

On the topic of stomps, The Prestige is acutally a pretty useful skill for getting them off, its an aoe blind, so stops the 2 interupt and any friendlies meele interups followed by an invis for target drop, can be quite useful when you don’t have any other options left for a safe stomp, Scepter 2 block is also very nice for the ranged blind to help allies who aren’t so well aquainted with safe stomping

Keep this stomping tip quiet… but if you wait for a downed mesmer to raise his hands and start casting #2 before hitting the stomp, they will actually come out of stealth before the stomp ends – meaning you can blink to them and finish it. You have to time it RIGHT before they go invis though.

fadeaway.2807:

Keep this stomping tip quiet… but if you wait for a downed mesmer to raise his hands and start casting #2 before hitting the stomp, they will actually come out of stealth before the stomp ends – meaning you can blink to them and finish it. You have to time it RIGHT before they go invis though.

except any mesmer that know what they’re doing wont be using #2 until the the very last second.

wads.5730:

fadeaway.2807:

Keep this stomping tip quiet… but if you wait for a downed mesmer to raise his hands and start casting #2 before hitting the stomp, they will actually come out of stealth before the stomp ends – meaning you can blink to them and finish it. You have to time it RIGHT before they go invis though.

except any mesmer that know what they’re doing wont be using #2 until the the very last second.

What you can do is start your stomp, interrupt it, and start it again immediately to try to bait it out.

Pyroatheist.9031:

What you can do is start your stomp, interrupt it, and start it again immediately to try to bait it out.

Doesn’t that basically take longer than just melee-ing them down?

Carighan.6758:

Pyroatheist.9031:

What you can do is start your stomp, interrupt it, and start it again immediately to try to bait it out.

Doesn’t that basically take longer than just melee-ing them down?

Takes longer to stomp them depends on your build, I do the blink stomp in situations I really need the kill to get pressure off me, also it’s very fun ^^

You can also enter a portal during a finisher, and portal back near the end.
Yesterday ive been noticing somethig strange though… Sometimes the cooldown time after a portal is lower than notmal, it used to be a few seconds after you can go back, but sometimes it was nearly instant :O. Maybe it was just my lagg.

I dont think distortion was changed

What about Fear? Does Distortion make you invulnerable to Fear?

you cant get more conditions, but i believe all current conditions you have on you will continue to affect you.

wads.5730:

you cant get more conditions, but i believe all current conditions you have on you will continue to affect you.

Yeah that was my understanding too but I was wondering how I was getting feared when I had Distortion up during a stomp. Maybe it just ran out or there was lag or something.

Distortion, will block fear.