Guild Wars 2

Yeah I’ve made a thread about this too – It’s VERY important right now as it’s like the only break stun for the ranger!

When being immobilised as a ranger I often use the lightning reflexes.
It’s inconsistent in that sometimes I evade back and sometimes I don’t.

The skill
It sounds like it breaks the stun/immobilise then evades back.

But I’m finding:
If I’m immobilised – breaks stun only
If I’m not immobilised – evades back

I don’t think I’ve been properly evaded back after a successful immobilise yet.
Pretty frustrating since there doesn’t seem to be much else in terms of breaking stun.
Has anyone else had this?

If there’s an obstacle which is large enough to block you from walking, strafing – it will also block you from dodging,

For example on the first round tourney map (with the two bosses) the stairs leading up to the keep have two small ‘curb-ridges’ running along the stairs. They’re really small but you need to jump over them as you end up getting blocked if you run into them – despite being so small.

The dodging though, it doesn’t jump over them which looks odd and adds a new dynamic to that ‘area’ of the map which I don’t know if it was intentional.

Dodging into the little curb blocks you from moving past it like you’d expect. Which if you’re dodging not only to mitigate damage but to also get distance between an enemy it prevents that.

Last note: if this isn’t intentional it’s worth looking at similar animations such as rolls, evasive jumps and other things which are part of skills.

Edit: – only tested on sylvari ranger – I don’t know about other races/profs

Sometimes this skill when targeting an adjacent enemy human player (pvp) functions badly. It will make you jump but it doesn’t move you backwards at all. So you just kind of hop upwards (like ‘space’ jump) almost.

Ironically it makes you stay in the range of the attacker for longer as you’d have gotten further away if you was back-peddling!

Time: last night around 23:00 GMT
Place: 2nd round of free-tourney on the guild lord map
Class: Ranger
Weapons: Short bow | Axe & Warhorn

Bug: Couldn’t switch from my axe/horn back to my shortbow during the game at some point. Can’t remember how it happened but I was switching a lot.
After it got stuck, there was no countdown animation on the switch icon, clicking it or hitting (`) did nothing to switch my weapons.

Bug lasted until I died – spawned again worked fine.
Pretty troublesome thing to happen during a tourney.