Guild Wars 2

Deception: Shadowstep :: “Shadowstep to target area. Becomes Shadow Return, which returns you to your starting area and cures three conditions.”

I would like to find out from the thief community whether they find the return time period of Shadowstep utility skill too short? Many times I preemptively Shadowstep to an enemy and throw a few stabs at him and dance with him for awhile but when I want to return back, it is already out of time.

I mean for a skill with about 1 minute cooldown, surely they could up the shadow return period to like 15 secs or more instead of the current 5 or so seconds. In fact its even shorter then Sword #2 Inflitrator’s return period which has no cooldown (only costs initiative).

Thoughts please?

It is a bit weird. I agree, the return should be available for 15 or even 30 seconds.

After all, the Mesmer’s Portal skill lasts 60 seconds. They can effectively teleport people across the entire map. What’s wrong with teleporting us back to where we were 15, 30, or even 45 seconds into a fight? Or maybe we’d like to runrunrun away from somebody trying to kill us, and pull off a funny little “Gotcha!” maneuver?

DrakeWurrum.6049:

It is a bit weird. I agree, the return should be available for 15 or even 30 seconds.

After all, the Mesmer’s Portal skill lasts 60 seconds. They can effectively teleport people across the entire map. What’s wrong with teleporting us back to where we were 15, 30, or even 45 seconds into a fight? Or maybe we’d like to runrunrun away from somebody trying to kill us, and pull off a funny little “Gotcha!” maneuver?

Exactly, for a skill that takes a Utility slot with a longish cooldown, it’s shadow return time is shorter than the Sword #2? It’s almost as if the skill were just like a less useful teleport (can’t cross gaps), more than half the time I end up running out of Shadow return time before I can use it, wasting the condition removal part of it.