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In this recent patch, the Bloodstone Fen gliding skill #5 "ride the ley-line" was recently changed not to work with Updrafts, as a consequence to an unrelated serious bugfix.
Prior to the patch, using Glider #5 combined with Updrafts allowed the player to reach new heights. This could be used as a technique to reach Bloodstone Nodes faster than normal, and to reach the Mastery Point and neighboring Bloodstone Rubies without redoing the entire cavern from the start.
Bloodstone Fen is already a low-pop map, and this change just hurt it for the small niche of players who still loved this map for techniques like that.
It was very fun.
Now it's gone.
ANET is the grinch who stole Chinese New Year.
If possible, please revert this change to way it was before.
Thank you!
edit:
ANET response from /u/Anet-Benn:
External link →This was a bug fix for an issue where certain skills that remove the speed cap on players could be combined with updrafts and other force-applying game systems to allow the player to accelerate way beyond how fast they should be able to go. I apologize for the lack of patch notes on the bug fix. Regardless, this was important to fix, because it broke many things, and as a byproduct made cheat detection more difficult to manage. It wasn't an attempt to "remove the fun of the skill", it was to fix a map-breaking bug that had game-wide repercussions.
As you can see from the past few living world episodes, we've been finding new ways to empower player movement, and this bug was causing issues for these, as well as blocking any future plans we may create to add fun new systems for motion.