Teleport

This article is about the mechanic. For movement around ingame maps, see Movement. For methods of teleporting through long distances, see Map navigation.

Teleport is a mechanic that causes the users or targets to instantly move from one location to another. Unlike shadowstep, teleporting doesn't require a target in order to move and some teleport skills even ignore pathing.

Related skills

Weapon skills that cause teleport

•   Air Pocket — Trident, when attuned to air
•   Vacuum — Trident, when attuned to air
•   Swap — Sword
•   Phase Retreat — Staff
•   Ambush Assault — Spear
•   Distress — Spear

Utility skills that cause teleport

•   Shadow Portal
•   Lightning Flash — Cantrip
•   Lightning Flash — Cantrip
•   Renewal of Air — Glyph, when attuned to air
•   Portal Entre — Glamour
•   Portal Exeunt — Glamour
•   Necrotic Traversal
•   Spectral Recall
•   Sand Swell — Punishment

Downed skills that teleport

•   Shadow Escape

Common skills that cause teleport

•   Energy Leap
•   Phase Engage — Sohothin
•   Teleport to Party Leader

Notes

• Most skills have unique, built-in limitations for their teleport effect. For example, Spectral Recall ignores pathing and will always teleport the user back to the destination; and generally, the longer the base range on the teleport, the more durable it is when teleporting vertically.
• Teleport directly down from an elevated point (vertical rock, bridge etc) does not inflict the falling damage.
• Most skills only teleport the caster to locations normally accessible without jumping or falling. Attempts to teleport across a gap or between two elevations usually results in the caster moving to the edge of the current plateau, if the 2 platforms aren't directly connected or the walking distance is too far - in general, the teleport will work if the game can path a non-jumping route to the target location that is not too long. It is also impossible to teleport from a ground point to an underwater target and vice versa. There are, however, a few exceptions:
  • Portal works across gaps and does not care about elevation, as long as both the entrance and exit portals are created within range of each other.
• These skills can be used while Immobilized, but do not remove the effect. The user will still be immobilized on the other side.

Trivia

• In the original Guild Wars, there was a mechanic with a similar effect.

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