Guild Wars 2

I was fighting a Mesmer yesterday by the Sentry outside the camp near the Bay keep. When I backed off from the fight for a few I witnessed the mesmer teleporting from near the claim flag by the sentry to the top of the roof that covers the wall over the gate. At first I thought it was a hack and took the screenshots but after some reflection decided to hold off reporting until I got some sleep and did some testing. Today I got the wife with her mesmer to stand in the same spot and it is possible to blink up from there, through the z axis, and stand on top of the wall. We tried it in several other spots, at different camps and could not find another spot where this is possible.

Yet, he’s a bug exploiter, the report would’ve been justified.

How is that a bug? Blink will teleport you pretty much anywhere you can walk within a short time without jumping. If anything I would say that mesmer knows their skills and how to use them. That’s a good thing in a game that tries to promote skill.

Yeah, this isn’t a bug, nor an exploit.

You can walk through the gate, and to the left is a path up to that roof that takes about five seconds to walk to. That means you can path to it; that means you can blink to it.

It’s possible to blink on top of that roof from outside the camp. Mesmer can do this as well as eles, thiefs and even guardians given a target. Necros should also be able to using Dark Path/Flesh Wurm.

It is a bug because blink should not and does not work through the z axis. It works on an x,y axis only.

Blink paths to place where you can walk to within given amount of time and range, all teleport skills do the same. If someone can teleport there then you can walk to it easily.

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Blink paths to place where you can walk to within given amount of time and range, all teleport skills do the same. If someone can teleport there then you can walk to it easily.

This is pretty much the rule of thumb for Blink. the example in this thread is not a bug.

Theftwind.8976:

It is a bug because blink should not and does not work through the z axis. It works on an x,y axis only.

Blink does work on a z axis, as you have very clearly shown here. I could show a thousand other examples of blink leaving you at a different z axis position. If you can walk there, you can blink there. You can walk there. If I stand at the bottom of a set of stairs and use blink at the top, I blink to the top. If I stand at the base of a hill, and use blink at the top, I blink to the top.

Or should I start complaining that Guardian Shouts affect people that are above you on the z axis. If Blink should not work through the z axis, shouldn’t shouts too? Heck, why have a z axis at all? 2d gaming is where it’s at.

Then the same structure down by the southeast camp, which you can walk to by going around the side, should function the same way. It does not allow you to blink to the top. The distance to walk to the top is in fact shorter on that camp then the one in the above screenie. So one is bugged and one is not, which is it?

Blink has to have a line of sight. Aiming at the UNDERSIDE of a structure and being able to blink to the top of that structure is not a valid line of sight. As far as being able to walk to a spot try blinking from the bottom of a flight of steps to the top. It will not work. It will work if you are halfway up and you can see the surface landing.

Since in the above picture you do not have a line of sight to the top of the structure for blink to work it is a bug.

Theftwind.8976:

Then the same structure down by the southeast camp, which you can walk to by going around the side, should function the same way. It does not allow you to blink to the top. The distance to walk to the top is in fact shorter on that camp then the one in the above screenie. So one is bugged and one is not, which is it?

I decided to test it out, and you must be mistaken, I just went to the Southeast camp and tried, worked 3/3 times.

I know why you think this is a bug an an exploit, I just disagree with your categorization. I don’t think this is an exploit any more than using a leap skill (which Mesmers have none of, by the way) to cross a gap that you can’t jump across is. It is using a skill whose only purpose is movement, to move. It isn’t allowing for anything any other class can’t do by walking, it just speeds the process up a bit. The skill is already incredibly bugged as it is, half the time if your target spot to blink to is on another piece of geometry, the skill will whiff completely even though you have clear line of sight and can path to it. Lets not ruin the skill more.

yeah warriors savage leap and rangers swoop… better look at those first before you go pecking at someone out witting you in a 1v1.

I can use portal and bounce back and forth 2000 units for like 10 seconds while still dealing dmg. fun as hell in a 1v1 vs medium skilled players. Not an exploit, just using the skill creatively.

I am the Mesmer in the screen shot. my ign is priest of lyssa, and I am not hacking or exploiting, im not sure why your Mesmer friend wasn’t able to recreate what I did but I remember this situation very vividly, the blink skill allows you to teleport only to areas that you could walk to within about ten seconds (that’s not exact but its something like that)

Also Theftwind are you this quick to seriously cry hacker in map chat without any testing or completely obvious hacking. Don’t be mad because you were outplayed bro.

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Also Theftwind are you this quick to seriously cry hacker in map chat without any testing or completely obvious hacking. Don’t be mad because you were outplayed bro.

and that’s the truth, with some cheese on it. -The longest yard (remake)