Guild Wars 2

We were in Arah Explorable, path 3, second boss. There are a ton of mobs, too much. So opened up a portal, and stealthed to the boss. The Portal was up, but noone could use it.

Is this intended, or a bug?

And if it is intended, the skill should not be usable at all. This saves us a lot of time.

Radar-range. Start optimizing distance.

I think distance max is 3000 orso, can’t be sure, but it is limitted.

Any good way to tell the max distance? I fail at max range all the time in wvw, quite embarrassing.

Max is 2400 range. AKA Radar Range. AKA look at minimap, if you can’t see the location of the Portal Entre in your minimap, your exit is too far.

I dont know why anet didnt put down a range at which the portal would work. I have had that issue a long time with the range.

yeah its not exactly written anywhere in the game that it has a max range… is it that hard to put the same red bar under the skill if you are too far away from your entre?

GummiBear.2756:

yeah its not exactly written anywhere in the game that it has a max range… is it that hard to put the same red bar under the skill if you are too far away from your entre?

It probably is, actually. The red bar is tied to your current target, afaik, and it’s probably a pretty explicit code segment to do it.

There would probably be a not-insignificant effort to put in code that can track the location of your existing portal, override the native tracking functionality, and apply it to that skill only. There are a lot of factors.

You might be able to simulate it if the entre is targetable though – target it and it might properly measure range. Not sure if you can target it, or if it would work (at work, so i can’t test it), but it’s a thought. Not really ideal for WvW though.