Guild Wars 2

If you dont call it a “bug”, could you please explain why Shadow Escape (Thief’s 2nd Downed Skill) doesnt work through WvW Portals.

Or why Vapor Form (Elementalist’s 2nd Downed Skill) works through WvW Portals?

It feels like, Shadow Escape is a long forgotten skill.

I hope we could see this change in PoF, this is my humble request…

The reason it works like that is because of how Elemetalist #2 is coded. Using the skill “revives” them into a vapor form that re-kill them at the end of it, so during that time they are concidered like an alive player for things like portals.

Thief #2 is just a standard teleport, we stay in the downed state the whole time.

I understand why you are complaining but I feel like its fair is you compare Shadow escape to vapor form. You can go through portals with vapor form but cant port up an obstacle or cliff while Shadow escape allows you to port up an obstacle or cliff. I agree that vapor form may suits more situations but I’m fine with shadow escape

If you’ve ever played mesmer, you’d know thieves could have gotten a lot worse a skill for their downed state. (Press 2 to teleport into enemy aoe _)

That being said, it would be nice if crawling were a thing in downed state – similar to what happens when you’re downed underwater. That would solve this issue, I think.

Westenev.5289:

If you’ve ever played mesmer, you’d know thieves could have gotten a lot worse a skill for their downed state. (Press 2 to teleport into enemy aoe _)

That being said, it would be nice if crawling were a thing in downed state – similar to what happens when you’re downed underwater. That would solve this issue, I think.

It would be interesting to see crawling… I can just imagine myself as a thief crawling to a downed warrior “m-must…f-finish…t-the…j-job…” stab stab stab stab

But I don’t see it happening as it would mean that finishing someone off would become a lot harder to do. Then again… I’ve teleported and for some kittening reason still get slain by the falling spear from the sky when it should have counted as a cancel.

i want to see this change too

Thief is master of mobility and disappearance, so it wont be absurd going through portal with Shadow Escape, even skill itself says “Teleport” yet you cant teleport through portals.

The problem is i believe downed skills arent tested that much, they decide to make downed state non-mobile state, yet we have Vapor Form which changes your downed state and some reports even says you can glide in Vapor Form!!!

So problem is Vapor Form, if they are going to keep Vapor Form in current state. They MUST change Shadow Escape, because going through portals fits Thief more than Elementalists… since thieves are the master of mobility and disappearance.

Vapor Form also has many other anomalies, like looting, dodging, you can trigger downed state skills again etc…

TL:DR: Either disable Vapor Form going through portals or give going through portals to Shadow Escape.