Guild Wars 2

I quite often get falling damage in places where I REALLY should not be taking it: on gentle slopes, on stairs, sometimes on really tiny jumps.
This problem is extremely pronounced on lower part of the stair leading down from the eastern side of Bell Tower to the supply generator in Edge of the Mists. If I didn’t have my falling damage trait on, I would die there nearly every time. The effect occurs most often when you have a speed buff.

Happens often. I always had that when I did the last mission when key farming on the way to the jail cell.

This bug has been around forever. Basically every slope or flight of stairs that is moderately steep can give you huge amounts of cumulative fall damage. If you are lucky, or unlucky depending on how you choose to look at it, you can even see your life bar deplete with every couple of pixels you move down the slope/stairs.

This is easy to prevent: stand still for a second, then continue your descent. It seems to be a design flaw in the way falling damage is calculated; if you descend too much Z axis distance in too short a time you take falling damage whether you are actually falling or not.

I would love to see it fixed because there are plenty of times when hauling kitten is important and I don’t want to stop for a second so I can avoid killing my self by running down a hill.