Guild Wars 2

Ele skill “Ride The Lightning” has been broken since its implementation was changed shortly after release. It frequently (almost always) overshoots, even on stationary targets, which leads to the usual followup spell “Updraft” often missing.

This is gamebreaking if/when trying to play ?/D Ele. It’s even worse when trying to updraft a moving target.

The first 2 clips are in WVW, the 3rd is in PVE. I play from Australia on a fast connection. The extent of the overshoot seems to correlate with increasing network latency.

you must mean Ride the Lightning

I dont know anyone who Burns Lightning Flash into Updraft.

Yep.

TexZero.7910:

you must mean Ride the Lightning

I don’t know anyone who Burns Lightning Flash into Updraft.

/wave

I do it if I want 99% chance to land my updraft.

A decent ele can survive before it’s off CD to escape. Even if you intend to use it for an earthquake + LF combo good players know it’s coming so they just dodge at the end of your earthquake regardless.

because of the RtL bug, i too usually end up using LF to land updraft→BS, reserving RtL for escape. It’s not as good, but it’s more reliable than trying to land RtL on a moving target and it overshooting and wasting updraft.

It is even worse for Oceanic players. You pretty much count on the increased 40 second cooldown. They really need to change/fix this skill.

dietzero.3514:

It is even worse for Oceanic players. You pretty much count on the increased 40 second cooldown. They really need to change/fix this skill.

yeah i don’t even bother trying to land Updraft with RtL, it’s so unreliable vs moving targets.

I should add that RtL has been broken since the RtL implementation was changed shortly after release. Before that, it never missed.

bug still exists, any ETA on a fix?

i presume there must be a fix because a skill that overshoots a FULLY STATIONARY target is clearly broken.