Guild Wars 2

i don’t know if this is for suggestion or for mesmer forum and i guess somebody already asked for it.

but here we are

wouldn’t be awesome to know when you stretched too far and portal won’t work?

is there a way to know (that i’m not aware of) or is something missing?

Drop a portal. Be out of combat. Put temporal curtain on top of the portal and run through it immediately. Run in a straight line. With a traited focus, when the recharge reaches 8 seconds, you are at the absolute maximum portal distance.

Mesmers most commonly use the minimap. The mini map zoomed in its fullest, from the location of ur portal, move until it is at the edge of the minimap. that is your max range. some mesmers put down a “personal waypoint” to mark the spot, but for example with a golem rush in wvw, you’ll see green dots or commander tags to mark the spot :P

thank you for these nice advice a little complex at the beginning i suppose but i could get use to it… although a red bar under the skill would be nice

takatsu.9416:

Mesmers most commonly use the minimap. The mini map zoomed in its fullest, from the location of ur portal, move until it is at the edge of the minimap. that is your max range. some mesmers put down a “personal waypoint” to mark the spot, but for example with a golem rush in wvw, you’ll see green dots or commander tags to mark the spot :P

Minimap also has to be as large as possible, in addition to as zoomed in as possible for this trick I believe.

Amadan.9451:

thank you for these nice advice a little complex at the beginning i suppose but i could get use to it… although a red bar under the skill would be nice

A red bar would be nice.

The minimap trick works, but fails unless you are going strictly left-right on the map. I designed my method for use in any situation out of combat.

Portal should have a teleport option, as far as your cursor can click where portal should drop/ ent/exit.. ezfix.

Pyroatheist.9031:

Amadan.9451:

thank you for these nice advice a little complex at the beginning i suppose but i could get use to it… although a red bar under the skill would be nice

A red bar would be nice.

The minimap trick works, but fails unless you are going strictly left-right on the map. I designed my method for use in any situation out of combat.

Oh that’s true, well, isn’t the “height” of the map shorter than the length (left/right) from what i remember, im not currently in game lol but if that were the case at least you wouldn’t be out of range maybe haha

But for your method you would require a focus and traited as well. some people, like me don’t run focus or trait for focus, are there any other skills? You said a 8 second on swiftness? maybe we can also calculate without swiftness running in the straight line

takatsu.9416:

Pyroatheist.9031:

Amadan.9451:

thank you for these nice advice a little complex at the beginning i suppose but i could get use to it… although a red bar under the skill would be nice

A red bar would be nice.

The minimap trick works, but fails unless you are going strictly left-right on the map. I designed my method for use in any situation out of combat.

Oh that’s true, well, isn’t the “height” of the map shorter than the length (left/right) from what i remember, im not currently in game lol but if that were the case at least you wouldn’t be out of range maybe haha

But for your method you would require a focus and traited as well. some people, like me don’t run focus or trait for focus, are there any other skills? You said a 8 second on swiftness? maybe we can also calculate without swiftness running in the straight line

Both the height and the width can be adjusted manually.

My method does require a focus. It does not require it to be traited, that’s just the metric I use. The swiftness is necessary though.

Pyroatheist.9031:

Both the height and the width can be adjusted manually.

My method does require a focus. It does not require it to be traited, that’s just the metric I use. The swiftness is necessary though.

Oh so you can adjust the map into a square, with the maximum width mini map, then it would be correct right? I dont know i never had a problem with minimap positioning haha

Or… you can use your radar.

Portal distance is radar range. Look at your minimap for the radar and pay attention to landmarks on the minimap to figure out distance via radar.