Guild Wars 2

Since the early September update, the function of Rocket Boots has been broken. In my experience there are three manners it tends to function in a manner that is very literally counter productive to their function

In one, at around the half way point the players character does a 180 mid animation and ends up in the starting location, only facing the other direction.

In another, at around the half way point the players character does a 90 degree left turn mid animation, and ends up facing the left direction.

In another, at around the half way point the players character does a 90 degree right turn mid animation, and ends up facing the right direction.

I submitted an ingame bug report a while back regarding the same thing. The Rocket Boots functionality seems random, it has to be fixed.

I’ve noticed this with other leap skills as well.

It is not just rocket boots.

Sometimes warrior sword 2.

Guardian GS 3.

Ranger Gs3.

Its just arenanet slowly breaking their game with every patch.

Players who use Thieves cried complained about it enough on the forums that got some patches put in to fix some of their issues….. but all the other classes ended up getting the short end of the stick.

Warriors having it the worst since their gap closers don’t connect at all anymore.

Sometimes when I rocket-boot off ledges (big or small) it classes it as a heavy fall (sometimes taking damage) and my character gets stuck in what looks like a frozen ‘face-plant’ animation. You can literally move/jump around stuck in that position and it’s awkward as heck.. only way to get out of it as I recall is using/doing something that will break you out of the position?

But yes, as others have mentioned I do quite frequently find my character randomly spazzing out when using the skill and ending up somewhere else, generally backwards.

Also, I’m not sure if this can be classed as a bug or not but more often than not when I use the skill off a ledge it sort of snap-freezes 75% of the way which makes it feel as if I didn’t get the distance out of the intended jump. Only sometimes does it make a smooth transition which covers a nice distance.

I hope they look into this and fix it.

Zephyra.4709:

Sometimes when I rocket-boot off ledges (big or small) it classes it as a heavy fall (sometimes taking damage) and my character gets stuck in what looks like a frozen ‘face-plant’ animation. You can literally move/jump around stuck in that position and it’s awkward as heck.. only way to get out of it as I recall is using/doing something that will break you out of the position?

That happens to all classes with certain big fall situations. All you have to do to fix it is dodge.

Yup this is a problem. As mentioned, it is extremely random, or at least as far as I can tell. I sure hope we get this fixed soon.