Guild Wars 2

The animation for the consortium sickle is absurd. Just make it do 2 hits since that’s when you get the item you’re harvesting.
I could have just bought the gems with my gold stock, but I decided that I wanted to show my support for this game with actual money.
So seriously, don’t waste my time on something silly like this.

This need to be fixed. It’s very not well done.
And since we paid 10$ for the Consortium harvesting sickle wich is 1/6 the whole cost of the game, it should work correctly.
This post describe the issue in more details.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/Consortium-Harvesting-Sickle

Other people are dissatisfied.
This is a total nonsense.

The sickle should work faster than other sickle not slower. And we can’t break out of the animation so it’s impossible to dodge attacks.

Please fix this.

I was under the impression that it’s the same speed as a regular sickle. Are you taking in the fact that your character stoops down in really slow motion before cutting with the normal sickles?

It’s still slower Kai. Had someone without the sickle gather at the same time as me, and it’s noticeably slower.

Bought it, and don’t like the animation as well. It’s too similar to logging axe. Cutting down herbs.

I agree here. The sickle’s animation is just the mining animation. What kind of lazy crap is that? Please, take away the intern’s food ration for a day or two for letting this happen.

I purchased the sickle to hopefully complete the full set of 3 harvesting tools, and to support the game and the company. But to re-use an animation, and then muk-up the casting time is worrying. It would have been fine with the normal harvesting animation, and the fancy vine/fountain effect. But why the mining animation? Is this a bug? Or just a horrible representation of laziness?

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The animation for the consortium sickle is absurd. Just make it do 2 hits since that’s when you get the item you’re harvesting.
I could have just bought the gems with my gold stock, but I decided that I wanted to show my support for this game with actual money.
So seriously, don’t waste my time on something silly like this.

And it take 3 hits to get the “herb”. Even if you double harvest. Wich the classic sickle it just go one until the node is depleted and it’s very short.

I’m so mad at this.

The animation definitely needs to be shortened a bit to bring it down to the same time as the regular sickle, takes too long at the moment.

you get the veggie in the same time, but then the animation and casting bar lasts longer and the only way I know of to end it early is weapon swap.
from start of cast to when you can move again, unlimited harvesting sickle takes 3 times longer than all other sickles (except when underwater – that’s the exact same time and animation as other sickles)