[SUGGESTION] Possible change to death's retreat ?

[Spleen.7836]

Just a tiny idea to make the rifle a bit more interesting, could it be possible to shadowstep away from any target with death's retreat, and not just enemies ? We could teleport away from allies to go faster while roaming for exemple. At the moment, if you target an ally, you will only shadowstep back, even if your target ally is behind you.

[Elxdark.9702]

that's why you need to bind about face :)

 

The only thing anet needs to do with this skill is **FIX IT**, fix the path and if you really want a buff or something then decrease by 1 the initiative.

[Zacchary.6183]

What about shadowstep in the direction of movement? I am fairly sure that isn't impossible for Anet to accomplish.

[YOUNGaz.5690]

As it is now, it shares it's description with skills like withdraw, roll for init and says it sends you backwards, which it only does without enemy selected. With enemy, it goes away from target regardless of characters orientation, like short bow 3. It's inconsistent and hopefully fixed soon so you can travel backwards where ever you want and use it like withdraw for directional movement regardless of targets selected. Also, P/D 3 is 4 init but retreat is 5? I don't think a single condi removal and less dmg is worth that extra init cost. Hopefully that is looked at too.