It seriously shocks me how often grappling hook simply fails to pull me. Like dear God even as I type this, there are several posts from as far back as early 2022 on the right under “Your topic is similar to…” reporting the same issue.
Do Death Grip, Leap of Faith, and other skills that cause character movement in a similar trajectory at a similar speed work this poorly?
They broke it in Legion. Before that, you could grapple almost anywhere. I even climbed the tower in Dalaran with it for fun.
Now, even when trying to cross simple gaps, you get “no path available” all the time.
Since then, it’s been getting progressively worse.
Heroic Leap is the grand father.
The problem is they gave grapple the old pathing requirements like heroic leap which is why it is constantly broken now.
Grapple used to be a tool you could use to explore the world but BlizZard has been on a crusade to control how players interact with the open world. They finally gave up their anti flying stance but they still haven’t reverted the damage they have done.
Grapple Hook is one of the victims during the War on Flight and how players engage with the open world.
Hated having that happen. If it fails to trigger them don’t put it on cooldown damn.
To add to this, they did a pathing/targeting correction update in the patch that added Korthia (9.1), back in Shadowlands.
Before that patch, you could still mostly get through terrain a bit if it did a weird LoS thing mid animation, albeit in a somewhat janky way, without issues. It would pull you through little mounds if you were falling and it got used a bit late.
After that patch? Anything considered a “no-no” spot for the hook won’t take the click at all, and it’ll force a cooldown without using the hook in situations you could use it pre-Korthia. IE: LoS on small hills or a wall while moving or something.
They updated Heroic Leap on the same patch and had to fix a ton of stuff with it to make it work properly again. You know what didn’t also get those fixes?
Grapple was working fine in instanced maps like BGs (AV) but by the time 9.2 rolled around that changed too.