Guild Wars 2

Ancestral Grace – You cannot use this skill while jumping or in air now. I don’t mind a lot since it addresses mostly exploit usages but have to say I do miss it…

Apparently this was actually an across the board change. Ele can no longer fire off Ride the Lightning mid air either.

Wonder is Druid / Staff 3 can no longer let you jump ledges/cliffs or used while jumping down off high places and living…

I hate this change so freaking much. There goes all the fun glides you could do around Kyhlo…

Well hopefully they improve los for its targeting. Oh and other classes’ too I suppose ;-)

I HAVE QUESTIONS.

What did this help with? Also, it’s still doable if you hit jump and ancestrals at the same time as you would with jump-dodging. But again, why?

Hammerguard.9834:

I HAVE QUESTIONS.

What did this help with? Also, it’s still doable if you hit jump and ancestrals at the same time as you would with jump-dodging. But again, why?

You were able to leap into keeps/towers in wvw bypassing the walls/gates.

Then delete all wvw towers. I WANT MY STAFF 3 JUMPING BACK!!!

Hammerguard.9834:

I HAVE QUESTIONS.

What did this help with? Also, it’s still doable if you hit jump and ancestrals at the same time as you would with jump-dodging. But again, why?

If you want to see why Anet took the mid-air use of Staff3 – Ancestral Grace away from the Druids, just do a youtube search for “Druid WvW – Invis Walls Needed.”

Basically, some of us Druids didn’t know how to respect the freedom/the privilege we had with using the skill in mid-air. Therfore, Anet did what was necessary – they removed its mid-air use. (It was the obvious and easy fix.)

And, honestly, I don’t blame Anet one bit. After watching the video, I don’t think most people would blame them either.

Oh well, it was nice while it lasted. /shrugs

Man, midair ancestral grace was so much fun. Of course we can´t blame the devs, but there has to be another way to fix this abuse in WvW.
To be honest, i started playing druid because of this “mechanic”. These little things make Guildwars 2 fun and unique to play.

Seriously, i need it back. My druid feels like a necro now.

I think they really should leave things like this in game, and try to prevent abuse some other way. It’s fun finding out about these things, and its fun using ’em.

Anyone here remember rocket/grenade jumping in Quake by id? Strafe jumping?
All of those were things the developer didn’t think of, that the players found out and made an absolute artform of using. In that game, they did leave the mechanics in, even though it was something that wasn’t intended to work that way from the beginning, and if you were skilled enough of course you gained an advantage – the way it should be.

Justine.6351:

Well hopefully they improve los for its targeting. Oh and other classes’ too I suppose ;-)

This. They should remove LoS requirement so a mini hill doesn’t prevent us from getting max distance with it.