Guild Wars 2

The Mesmer portal skill has some issues:

a) The tooltip says that the final portal once Exeunt is used lasts for 20 seconds. The duration is actually closer to 10 seconds. Either the duration or tooltip needs updating.

b) The skill has a range which is not described or shown in any way. After using Portal Entre, if you go too far to use Portal Exeunt, even within the 60s time limit, you can cast Portal Exeunt, the portal appears but the option to use it will not and the portal will not be usable. The skill has no visual aid or description to tell you how far is too far, and when this skill will stop working.

c) Using the Entre or Exeunt portal on an area with many ground AOE effects will cause the portal to not be functional, as in b).

d) Using the Entre of Exeunt portal on an area of uneven/slanted ground can also sometimes cause the portal not to be functional, as in b).

e) While not technically a bug, because the Portal Entre skill does not go on cooldown until Exeunt is used, you have no visual countdown or timer to display the 60 second time limit you have to use Exeunt before it times out and the skill is unavailable.
Coupled with the unwritten range, this means using this skill is largely guess work – you use Entre, run and simply hope you get there in time and that the exit portal will actually work.

I think this is likely an oversight due to the fact that the cooldown isn’t triggered by Entre which leaves players with no visual aid for their 60 second countdown. It would be wonderful if this skill was updated to show players the 60 seconds counting down, and also to give us an indication of the range after which the skill won’t function.

I agree too and have noticed b) d) and e) as well.

If you are having a problem with Portal max range, use personal waypoint + radar + this note from gw2 wiki: ‘The distance between two portals is restricted to radar range.’