Guild Wars 2

Has anyone else seen this since the patch?
I was in a 5v5 hot join and a mesmer was teleporting 10 feet every single second.

Of course the player that was doing it plays dumb and says “come on you guys 56k is outdated”….
{I had the most points on my team and we won, so I sure wasn’t lagging}

If this is actually true the issue is a player exploiting, has nothing to do with the mesmer class itself other than that happens to be the class he/she was playing. Nothing in the mesmer’s toolkit allows for this kind of movement.

Brinson.7289:

Has anyone else seen this since the patch?
I was in a 5v5 hot join and a mesmer was teleporting 10 feet every single second.

Of course the player that was doing it plays dumb and says “come on you guys 56k is outdated”….
{I had the most points on my team and we won, so I sure wasn’t lagging}

Player was using a speed hack. To you it looks like he is teleporting because his client speed is running faster than info sent back to server.

The only Blink trick is making it work underwater which is hardly OP in any way.

Or the mesmer was simply using Phase Retreat, the Staff 2 skill. It is a very short distance teleport, in a random direction, on a short cooldown. (The cooldown can be as low as 5 seconds, depending on traits).

People are too quick to call hacking or exploiting. Short blinks are part of the toolkit for Staff mesmers.

nbennet.5827:

Or the mesmer was simply using Phase Retreat, the Staff 2 skill. It is a very short distance teleport, in a random direction, on a short cooldown.

Close. But to just clearify a minor mistake, Phase Retreat is not very short, and it is always directly behind the Mesmer, not in a random direction (hence “retreat”). I believe you are mixing up the Mesmer downed 2 teleport with the Staff2 teleport.

The rest of what you said is good.

Surbrus.6942:

nbennet.5827:

Or the mesmer was simply using Phase Retreat, the Staff 2 skill. It is a very short distance teleport, in a random direction, on a short cooldown.

Close. But to just clearify a minor mistake, Phase Retreat is not very short, and it is always directly behind the Mesmer, not in a random direction (hence “retreat”). I believe you are mixing up the Mesmer downed 2 teleport with the Staff2 teleport.

The rest of what you said is good.

Phase Retreat is not always behind the mesmer, it’s away from the target so if the target is behind you and you run forward you Phase Retreat forward.

He might have been using blink, phase retreat, and illusionary leap (it actually worked?).

Surbrus.6942:

nbennet.5827:

Or the mesmer was simply using Phase Retreat, the Staff 2 skill. It is a very short distance teleport, in a random direction, on a short cooldown.

Close. But to just clearify a minor mistake, Phase Retreat is not very short, and it is always directly behind the Mesmer, not in a random direction (hence “retreat”). I believe you are mixing up the Mesmer downed 2 teleport with the Staff2 teleport.

The rest of what you said is good.

Yes, my bad. Downed 2 is random. Staff 2 is away from the target.

In any case, my point was that there are plenty of legitimate ways the mesmer can blink around the battlefield. This is an L2P issue.

It is always amusing to hear that “I don’t understand what is happening, therefore it must be some kind of hack or exploit!”

nbennet.5827:

It is always amusing to hear that “I don’t understand what is happening, therefore it must be some kind of hack or exploit!”

Confusing the enemy is kind of the Mesmer’s thing.

Brinson.7289:

Has anyone else seen this since the patch?
I was in a 5v5 hot join and a mesmer was teleporting 10 feet every single second.

Of course the player that was doing it plays dumb and says “come on you guys 56k is outdated”….
{I had the most points on my team and we won, so I sure wasn’t lagging}

If you have trouble identifying a Mesmer look for the health bar, their health bar is usually the lowest mid-fight. The more they teleport, the less their attacking you; my best advise is that they can only teleport for so long, wait for the opening then immobilize them. OR lure them towards you, when they teleport away move back make them come forwards then take the offence.

Brinson.7289:

Has anyone else seen this since the patch?
I was in a 5v5 hot join and a mesmer was teleporting 10 feet every single second.

This sounds like Phase Retreat. Staff #2, it moves you away from your target 8s cooldown if traited.. this is not a new ability you’re probably just not use to fighting the Staff mesmers since the GS changes you’re seeing a lot more Staff/Cond builds in pvp. Other than that there are other abilities that will “visually” seem like that are. Blink of course and clone spawn on dodge and decoy invis+clone spawn. You’re probably getting confused when they’re using all of these together at once.