Guild Wars 2

Hey,

I have been playing Mesmer since beta weeked 1, and spend very little time on other classes. There is this one bug that has been around since BWE1, which I reported back then, and again since. This bug is, the infamous:

Phase Retreat into a wall!!
There are many places around the world where using a phase retreat can be deadly, getting you stuck inside a wall with no way out. Sometimes you can get out with a portal or the sideways displacement from Mirror Images, but not always. In fact, sometimes it forces you to restart personal story quests, as you cannot get out of a wall and continue onward.
What has been done to fix this?
Well, before, when phase retreat would teleport you backwards, you could at least aim for an open space and not a wall. But that got “fixed”. Phase retreat now just teleports you away from the mob you are targetting. So, if you are killing a large group of dredge, in a fractal for example, and you autogarget the wrong one, then “puff” you are inside a wall and your teammates are pulling a dredge to the wall so that he can down you with an AoE attack, so that you can use downed skill 2, and hopefully random-blink out of the wall.
Mesmers have been decorating the insides of Tyria’s walls since beta weekend 1…

I like the new Phase Retreat. It is definitely less buggy than it used to be although blinking into stuff still happens occasionally. I also like the fact that Phase Retreat now teleports you away from your target. This is great if you are trying to run away from someone.

Working as intended (except for the buggy part).