Guild Wars 2

When I’m fighting in wvw zergs or when I’m in a particularly hectic boss fight, it can be very difficult for me to keep track of my Illusionary Leap illusion so that I can accurately use Swap. I find that, quite often, I use the swap too late and I miss my immobilize or my illusion goes somewhere I didn’t intend and I swap to somewhere I shouldn’t be. Any tips?

I’ve found that praying helps.

It’s absolutely horrible every time, you cast it and pray to the six that it actually does what its supposed to do instead of doing absolutely nothing or running in the opposite direction and screwing you over :’(

Well, when I watch some of my idols, like Osicat or Pyro, use iLeap, they seem to always land it. This may be because they’re recording their content then choosing the clips where it works. But because I’ve never seen them miss the swap, I have to wonder if they throw out a ton of their clips, or if they have a better understand of the ability and they never miss it.

The devs said its a pathing issue that they have no solution for, so players have to watch for terrain and range themselves.

If you have a rock on the path or too far your illusion might do crazy and silly things. To reduce the chance of that happening you have to be close and on flat terrain, which is stupid considering the purpose of the skill is to close in anyway. This severely hinders mesmer’s chasing ability. Some mesmers use stealth and safely approach their opponent before sending out for ileap.

Another setback is ileap/swap is probably the most predictable immobilizing skill in the whole game. Compare to all other immobilizing skills, opponents are given at least 2 opportunities (or more depending on the range) to dodge the swap immobilize. The cripple won’t help much because players can still dodge the following swap. The chance of success rely so much more on your opponent’s experience than your’s, so don’t beat yourself for not working.

I wish they change the condition in ileap to immobilize, would at least mitigate the horror in ileap pathing.

LCV.7245:

Well, when I watch some of my idols, like Osicat or Pyro, use iLeap, they seem to always land it. This may be because they’re recording their content then choosing the clips where it works. But because I’ve never seen them miss the swap, I have to wonder if they throw out a ton of their clips, or if they have a better understand of the ability and they never miss it.

Just because someone is uploading videos doesn’t mean they are actually good at the game. They are not going to upload fights where they get facerolled by cheese builds, counter builds or more skilled people. Especially in a game like GW2 where the only thing we have to go by is a ghetto leaderboard and forum arguments, no recount, logs or arena ratings.

Meanwhile no issue of path finding for thieves with their gap closers….working as intended.

Save it for the stunbreak and just use a forward positional dodge instead. :p

LCV.7245:

Well, when I watch some of my idols, like Osicat or Pyro, use iLeap, they seem to always land it. This may be because they’re recording their content then choosing the clips where it works. But because I’ve never seen them miss the swap, I have to wonder if they throw out a ton of their clips, or if they have a better understand of the ability and they never miss it.

Basically, it’s a combination of a few things.

First, I’ll try to use the skill in places that I know it works. This means flat ground.

Secondly, I know and understand how the clone fails, when it fails. It will leap out, but it won’t go anywhere. After it fails the leap, it’ll walk at a normal pace towards the target. If you’re patient and watch the clone, you can still get a successful swap off if the clone fails.

Ultimately, you just need to keep a close eye on the clone. Watch it leap out, track where it goes. This is a good idea in any case, because it allows you to use it as a gap-opener. If your opponent dodges away from the clone or kills it then moves away, you can still swap to where the clone is and gain a bit of distance.

Fay.2357:

LCV.7245:

Well, when I watch some of my idols, like Osicat or Pyro, use iLeap, they seem to always land it. This may be because they’re recording their content then choosing the clips where it works. But because I’ve never seen them miss the swap, I have to wonder if they throw out a ton of their clips, or if they have a better understand of the ability and they never miss it.

Basically, it’s a combination of a few things.

First, I’ll try to use the skill in places that I know it works. This means flat ground.

Secondly, I know and understand how the clone fails, when it fails. It will leap out, but it won’t go anywhere. After it fails the leap, it’ll walk at a normal pace towards the target. If you’re patient and watch the clone, you can still get a successful swap off if the clone fails.

Ultimately, you just need to keep a close eye on the clone. Watch it leap out, track where it goes. This is a good idea in any case, because it allows you to use it as a gap-opener. If your opponent dodges away from the clone or kills it then moves away, you can still swap to where the clone is and gain a bit of distance.

^

It’s all in the understanding. Play with it, watch where it works and doesn’t and how to still use it. It uses the same pathing as monsters and such so if you notice a monster path weird in an area to get to you, your iLeap will too. Like several techniques to be a good Mesmer it just takes a lot of play and experimentation(cause at this rate it’ll never get ‘fixed’ to how we like it to be)