Guild Wars 2

I came back to guild wars 2 recently, and failing sb 5 makes me greatly unhappy. I don’t understand why we can’t have out initiative refunded if the shadowstep fails. I’m not talking about where it only teleports you half way because your arrow clipper the terrain, it’s when you fire an arrow, which the game says is a valid teleport (with a green aoe circle), you use your initiative , and then the game’s like jk, it wasn’t valid.

Here’s an example where I’m trying to shadowstep to a valid location, but it fails.

If you jump it would work, just saying

You blink but the shot still travels. I’m just in habit at this point to jump+sb5 and other skills that can get hung up on stuff.

Use bandaid solutions and hope for the best.

Jumping does not work all the time. It’s more complicated in open world unless the locations are familiar to you.

bluri.2653:

If you jump it would work, just saying

There a lot of ones where jumping doesn’t fix it though. Some where it only breaks if you jump too.

Having to jump to get a skill to work normally is a bit much anyway…

Thanks for the jumping tip. It’s better than not jumping, but it can still fail.

However getting “no valid path to target” is a pretty bad “bug” if you can get it when you aren’t even moving. I think losing 6 initiative for something basically uncontrollable and pretty rng (“no valid path” only, most/all shortened teles due to terrains is legit).

But it’s also understandable that anet wouldn’t bother about this since this is kind of rare, and only a major problem in pvp and meh in wvw.

i can tell you after 8000 hours almost i still have no idea how shadow step skill work. some time they do some they do not most of the time your like Oh that works that neat
or wtf why cant i step there lol.

Ya this is one annoying skill that always get me killed when I need it the most but it fails. I now make sure I don’t fight on walls, bridges, behind a downed wall. It’s greatly demoralising when I die to a staff ele on a bridge or something.