Guild Wars 2

So, I keep seeing people use portals in ways that don’t actually work for me or match the description. Specifically:

• I can’t use my own portals. Yet I’ve seen videos where other people do. Has this feature been removed? Is there some way to take your own portals?

• The tooltip says you place the entrance first and then the exit. Yet I see people create portals to the end of jumping puzzles, which should only be possible if you create the entrance, do the jumping puzzle in under one minute, then create the exit. Yet, that’s clearly not what’s happening. How do I create portals to the end of jumping puzzles after solving them?

Clearly, I don’t get it. How are people doing these things?

The way portal works is as follows:

The skill on your bar will drop one side of a portal. Once dropped, you can drop the other side of the portal. One side will persist for 60 seconds. Once both sides have been dropped, the portal will activate, allowing people to move through it. Up to 20 people can take the portal before it deactivates, or once it has been active for 10 seconds. If you drop the 2nd portal too far out of range of the first portal, you’ll be unable to use it at all.

People portal to the end of jumping puzzles by completing the puzzle, dropping one portal at the end, and then running back to the start to drop the other end for their teammates.

I know this is late to ask, but if a dev passed by could you please add a changing scale that indicate how far we are from our portal entre? Adding 5000 threshold range in tooltip seems like a joke……

No need for something so fancy. Just add a generic red bar (like other skills) that fills in once you’re at max distance.

The other way to tell portal range is : Zoom your mini map to closest range. Either remember the terrain or set a personal waypoint where the opening portal was. As long as you stay within the mini map’s range you are within portal range. ( aka “map range” ). If the opening portal goes off the edge, you’ve gone too far.

LunarRXA.5062:

No need for something so fancy. Just add a generic red bar (like other skills) that fills in once you’re at max distance.

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Portals works both ways, not only one way. So you can portal back and forth 20 times.

Can you take your own portals? I’ve never been able to.

ekarat.1085:

Can you take your own portals? I’ve never been able to.

Try following the advice we gave you earlier in this thread. Yes, you can take your own portals.

I believe you’re simply misunderstanding the concept/logic of the skill.

Portals are created that allows you to enter from both “ends” of the “tunnel”. Essentially creating a duo entry/exit point. The mesmer can use their own portals after creation of the 2 points themselves to travel back and forth. It is noted that portals can only function within the ambiguous 5000 unit range (Refer to Ithilwen.1529’s response to learn how to calculate the range).

For jumping puzzles: The Mesmer player reach the end of the puzzle themselves first. Then they proceed to lay down a portal at the finish/end point. Within that 1 minute, they can proceed to travel back down to the jumping puzzle’s starting point to ferry people up. In majority of the jumping puzzles, it is simply easier and faster to travel downwards than upwards.

Edit: Best method is try making portals at a short distance to get a general idea of how it works before using it in broader scenarios.

And keep in mind that once you put down a portal, there’s a few seconds delay before the option to take it pops up.

Lay one down (exit), zoom in on your map and set your personal waypoint, move to the far side of your minimap until the personal waypoint is at/near the other end of it, put down the second portal (entrance), wait for it to turn bright pink + a little bit and then you can take it.