I don't know which people you know, but that is not keyboard turning. You are using the keyboard therefore you haven't turned it. I don't think you can nor need to strafe while playing without the keyboard as you would have to enable the click to move feature in the settings. This blink mode would become useful in such scenario.
Amazing hate here. I like the mage blink change - why would I not want to move forward more in the direction I am running already? Oddly I talked to Muunn to turn in my raptor quest but didn't notice other options.
It looks like a lot of the folks in comments section have never played a mage with Arcane Momentum. I'd even go so far as to say they're a bit salty about not understanding it's usefulness.
Ok, for ALL the people that have no idea what this article is even about, can someone please give us the dummy version?Does this mean when I backing away from something I will blink backward like the hunter jump back ability?If so that seems pretty cool, since I use that on my hunter all the timeotherwise I dont understand?
Whether you are a mage who can blink or shimmer, a warrior with heroic leak or other class ability that can do something similar, the use of the Night Fae soulshape's ability to teleport forward does help out in Torghast with some of the obstacles in there that can take a good chunk of your health if it doesn't one shot you