Jumping

generalmyrick

Why do people jump constantly when they fight?

Lord_Eomer

Jumping OP, need nerf in PVP

This just makes difficult to target in PVP

Rohamad_Ali

A lot of ground effects damage and snares can be avoided by jumping . Also it throws off gap closers sometimes . Terrain around LoS objects such as rocks slow people down and jumping helps avoid that .

Enemy-of-Coldharbour

Distraction (sometimes arrogance).

JamieAubrey

Only thign these shield stacking Sorcs can do

rootimus

Because crackjumpers gonna crackjump.

WaltherCarraway

A syndrome since Quake 2.

Onefrkncrzypope

Because thier PvP playlist includes artist like: House of Pain, Metallica, Rolling Stones, Kris Kross, Destiny's Child, and Aladdin sountrack.

AhPook_Is_Here

Easier to get a head shot while in the air because the hit box is more prominent.

MirkoZ

Intimidate.

Arthg

'Cause an ankle-high stump can stop you in your tracks.

CMFan1966

I jump to hopefully avoid the line of flames shooting across the ground at me because my roll dodge ability in a fight is seriously lacking. In other words, I jump because I suck, not because I have anything to prove.

Waffennacht

Habit

Neloth

Idk, it's easier to weave on magblade while jumping? Literally every ranged magblade jumps in duels, including me

runningtings

Boredom for me.

Thogard

Bypass directional LOS check to prevent a walk through ruining my skill

Thogard

Rohamad_Ali wrote: »

A lot of ground effects damage and snares can be avoided by jumping .

I've tested this a bit and haven't found a single skill that can be avoided. Can you list one that can be avoided by jumping? @Rohamad_Ali

Rohamad_Ali

Thogard wrote: »

Rohamad_Ali wrote: »

A lot of ground effects damage and snares can be avoided by jumping .

I've tested this a bit and haven't found a single skill that can be avoided. Can you list one that can be avoided by jumping? @Rohamad_Ali

Siege fire , wall of elements , nova and just about every ground AOE in the game . If you jump over it or out before it lands .

Toc de Malsvi

Perhaps you should be asking yourself why you don't jump?

generalmyrick

truest *** i've heard!

Chakei

Because people on the forums started complaining about people jumping in PVP.

Beardimus

Well there you go, @generalmyrick alot of answers but also none at the same time! Same each time this is asked! The mystery continues.....

I think some do it from habbit, from games where it did something, assuming it does something now. The degree of tongue in cheek banter this question gets each time is probably because people don't know 100% that it does something, but swear by it anyway or are stuck doing it, or hope it does something, or know it doesn't but want people to jump around like house of pain, or know it does something but leaving some mystery means not everyone will catch on.

Getting a definitive answer is going to be difficult sir! But alot of good players do it, and more on PC, where I assume its easier to do in a rotation than moving a thumb about on a controller?!

Who knows, we need Miss Marple, Poirot, Clauseau and James bond to figure this one out definitivley!

nCats

I understand some jumping, it can change camera angles if nothing else. But most of the time it looks like some sort of ego. Tant mieux if the jumper gets decimated later on.

deepseamk20b14_ESO

I can't help it honestly. If there is a jump button in a game I use it. It's like OCD, I must jump. I jump out of combat too.

davey1107

I don't know, but I'm a nightblade who runs Draining Shot (which we call boom stick).

The funny thing is that you're more liable to get knocked back from boom stick when you're in the air, so I like to stalk jumpers on walls with my cloak then boom stick them off. This usually doesn't kill them, but it's funny as heck.

And last month I had my best boom stick ever. I hit a DK and the knock back hit him over the rail of the Aleissa Bridge, down into the slaughterfish water, and......dead. Ha.

Makato

The legend says that the one who jumps 99 times in a duel will win glorious battle with great succes by annoying his opponent...

VirtualElizabeth

It kind of adds more realism to my game play i.e. jumping over puddles of fire etc. I am not sure if I actually avoid damage in doing this but it's fun for me to think I might!

gpreid81

I'll say it again them caltrops hurt you r.feet ppl

loyalhabsfan

To be honest this is almost like a cadence thing with rotation. Think about it... when you started playing you didn't have anything memorized so you were smashing buttons like crazy. As slightly ADD, once I developed my gameplay, there became longer pauses between weaving and that button silence felt awkward, so I jump to fill the little quarter-second time slot and to keep my hands busy.

I jump during PVE, PvP when running/on mount, dueling, etc. Don't really think anything of it, it just shows a high level of comfort with your build. Players that have played the same build for years and develop the muscle memory start working in little kinks that occupy the "holes" in rotations.

Example: Stam NB; Literally every time I cloak and wind up a heavy bow attack, I jump while it's winding up. Sitting in one spot only pressing one button feels weird to me, so I jump and it feels good. Lol. Hope this helps.

Beardimus

I just don't have that kinda spare time!! Shows I'm scrub I guess, but I just about have time to press the buttons I need. Maybe it's cos im on console / controller?

Either way when they make jumping cost stam its gunna stress a few folks out.....

WillhelmBlack

I always make a point to the Sorcs I'm fighting against. The last guy I jumped back to, stopped doing it the next time I saw him. xD

I do it on Sorc a bit, helps with the timing of the combo, I sometimes jump on other classes to escape snares/roots, though it's not needed at all anymore since the Bombard meta is long gone.