Guild Wars 2

Please note: if you have balance concerns with phase traversal, this is not what the topic is about.

Phase Traversal has two different behaviors depending on whether or not you have Action Camera enabled.

Action cam off: You can target mobs farther than 1200 away. Used Phase Traversal, and teleport/shadow-step 1200 toward your target.

Action cam on: Regardless of how you target a mob, tab-target, right-click to lock, or just aim your crosshairs, you cannot use Phase Traversal at all unless the target is within 1200 range.

I can confirm this. Action camera is fun for farming, but not having my amazing blinking skills is a hindrance.

Confirmed. I have it bound to my Q key to it’s not really an issue for me. I just toggle it. I can understand why it’d get under other people’s skin though

I had the same problem. I just now tried out similar moves (shadowsteps) briefly on Thief, and they have some problems too but it’s not always the same. Here are the results with action camera (AC) on or off, when a target is selected but out of range. All tests with AC on were done with the crosshair over the target. All tests were done in PvE (random mobs in Metrica Province).

Sword #2
-AC off: teleports towards target as intended
-AC on: skill is used (initiative depleted) and Initiator’s return becomes available, but you do not move towards the target

Steal
-AC off: does not work when out of range. Goes on short cooldown when used (5 sec) with no effect
-AC on: does not move towards target but activates and goes on full cooldown. You get boons if you have the appropriate traits (Thrill of the Crime), but you do not get boons from Bountiful Theft. You do not get an F2 item from your target.

Infiltrator’s signet
-AC off: You move towards the target and the skill goes on full cooldown, as intended.
-AC on: You do not move towards the target but the skill still goes on full cooldown.

So Infiltrator’s signet and Sword #2 are behaving similarly to Phase Traversal for me. Steal is doing odd things.

can confirm bug