Guild Wars 2

Both engineer leap skills, Acid Bomb and Rocket Boots, have drastically lost leaping distance in comparison to other professions’ leaping skills which I believe must’ve happened unintentionally.

This video shows exactly what I mean: https://streamable.com/m79n
And yes, this jump used to be possible with either engineer skill and if I remember correctly even without any swiftness. (When movement skills were still affected by swiftness)

Surely, Rocket Boots should take you farther than a Leap of Faith (Guardian greatsword), right?

I know this change doesn’t have any implications on balance and maybe that’s why no one has noticed or cared about it. But it does take away a great deal of fun for players like me who love to mess around with movement.

Just trying and hoping to get anyone to notice and do something about this..

I’m with you on these. Acid Bomb not making it now is probably because its leap distance is 550 instead of 600. That should probably be normalized to match the other leap skills your vid shows.

Rocket Boots is also strange. The tooltip says 900 distance but it looks like it’s only reaching half that. I’m guessing it’s the flip animation that the skill has that’s shortening the effective air distance as the other leap skills you show keep the character upright.

I’ve been playing with Rocket Boots in PvP; I’ll test it’s ground distance this evening. Thanks for the heads-up.

Yes, the roll at the end makes up the extra distance on ground but not in the air. However it used to do it in the air too. The roll came right after the leap even mid air, but now there is a delay in between the two animations which completely stops you and then the roll doesn’t throw you much farther like it used to.