By trying to fix Phase Retreat for not getting stuck into terrain, it is now broken in another aspect, or maybe “behaves differently” if you want to call it that.
OLD BEHAVIOR:
Before I would know exactly where I would get ported – it would port me backwards not far away from where I am standing.
CURRENT BEHAVIOR:
Now in many cases it ports me in totally random direction, varying distances; for example, before I would stand in one corner of the capture point and know that by phase retreating I will NOT get teleported out of the point boundaries, but now I will get teleported away from the point (this is critical on small area points like Windmill on Kyhlo). Very hard to keep the point if you are defending it
Additionally, sometimes after the port it will zoom in all the way into my character, it’s very annoying; or my character will be facing another direction which is very disorienting combined with the zoom in.
I do not believe this is intended behavior, and should be looked into.
I totally agree. It has really disrupted gameplay from a point defense perspective. It now teleports you away from your target instead of straight back. The travel distance is noticeably farther, and it more often than not puts you off the point, allowing your opponent to neutralize it. Very frustrating, when trying to use this skill not for escape, but to activate chaos armor through Null Field or Chaos Storm. It really hindered me last night in tPvP by putting me too far away from the point.
I find the character facing the wrong direction after Phase Retreat the most annoying bug. I don’t know how many times when fighting one of the world dragons where after using phase retreat I was facing away from the dragon while my character was facing my camera.
And here I was glad to see it stop teleporting me through terrain / the ground. I will have to keep an eye on how often it sends me backward vs. a random other direction.
The spell has been changed in its description and as far as I can tell also the way it works to teleport away from target instead of teleport backwards.
The good news is I no longer get teleported under the surface or down into water.
The bad news…
When using Phase Retreat last night, one time I ended up on a cliff above the mobs I was fighting. Another time I ended up twice on a deck above me when fighting on a ship. However the best time was when I ended up inside some elevated locked cell in a town with no way out. Luckily Blink worked and got me out.
Most of the other times I used Phase Retreat, I ended up facing away from the target I was trying to kill.
Mesmer Phase Retreat still needs some fine tuning.
It’s nice that it no longer teleports you into the ground as much. That’s a definite plus. But:-
I much preferred the old Phase Retreat, where I teleported me backwards; the new Phase Retreat is too random.
I hate this change, and it’s considerably diminished my pleasure in using the Staff.
I would rather they’d implemented the change of not teleporting into the ground as much, but just changed the tooltip to represent the “teleports you backwards from the direction you’re facing” behaviour.
