Guild Wars 2

While in the air with swoop you are “evading” attacks and you cannot cast a skill. That means if you are swooping into something bad and need to use your signet of stone, or whatever, to save yourself then the skill will not work until you hit the ground. In that moment before you hit the ground you can be hit, but can’t cast skills. That means you might get 100-0’d before you touch the ground causing swoop to be your doom. Moreover, if you happened to get immob’d in that moment then you will be stuck falling until the immob wears off and are free to be hit, but still cannot use skills.

WWWWWWHHHHHYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!

dont leap into lava?

Natural selection working as intended

signet of stone will not save you from lava.. believe me I’ve tried

The thing is, that if you cast Swoop, and you get immobilized for (let’s say 6 seconds), you are practically more than stunned for 6 seconds, because abilities cannot be cast in air (and swoop acts like putting you in air).
So you can’t even use stun breakers like Lightning Reflexes, because you are still in air, immobilized. The window where you can get immobilized is short, but it’s still there and it’s a life/death difference.

You can only be saved via SotR that can be cast anytime, if I’m correct.

SotR?

The worst is that if you are immob’d and then swoop to evade them… you get air immob’d.

Ryan.9387:

SotR?

Signet of the Renewal – that signet that pulls all conditions onto your pet. Also a stun breaker. Also cleanses 1 condi every 10 sec.

Yea when you are immobed in the air with Swoop it really sucks. Lightning Reflexes doesn’t work when you spam it to get the immob off

It sucks to have to use Signet of Renewal to get out of trouble when you want to keep it when you have alot of condis on you.

Vaguely related. One time in WvW I was chasing an enemy near a cliff. I used Swoop to try and close in, but I’d somehow de-selected him and ended up Swooping right off the cliff and fell to my death.

I’m sure that enemy had a good laugh at my expense. XD

Just press at weapon swap button.