Guild Wars 2

If our other skills have the red bar underneath it to indicate that it is out of range, shouldn’t our “exit” portal also have the red bar underneath to tell us it is out of range and won’t work?

First time I used Portal I assumed it would show if I’m out of range (and since I couldn’t estimate 5k range I failed placing the exit..).

Yes, it should have. I don’t know why they didn’t implement it so far.

oh
it really should

This was requested immediately after the portal range nerf and has been ignored by the Anet team ever since. But yes, it would be a very nice qol change.

How brutal was the range nerf?
Its still able to take you from inside Stonemist Castle to outside outer gate (passing both gates), and it can still be used to help friends skip entire jumping puzzles..

The original portal had no range limit so long as you stayed on the same map. The problem was mesmers were hiding in keeps, dropping portal then way pointing to spawn and teleporting whole armies in from spawn… oh yeah it also had no limit on the number of players that could use it while it was up.

Yep, the range limit was warranted as that was ridiculous with our waypointing.

The # of ports limit is debatable, but I can understand it.

The lack of a range indicator is silly and I see no reason why we wouldn’t have this … especially since we need to take into account elevation when guessing max distance.