Hey everyone, the May 28 Gemstore update gave us the Mini White Kitten for 400 gems and the unlimited use Consortium Harvesting Sickle for 800 gems. I uploaded the pictures and videos of both items in case you guys want to see what it looks like.
The harvesting sickle animation is a bit bland unfortunately
The animation also increases the harvesting time by 300% unless you stop it manually. This means a lot of extra key presses when harvesting a patch of plants or if you get extra uses out of a node.
i Want the Unlimited Sickel yes….. i have it now…. BUT WHAT THE kitten IS THIS ANIMATION.
Im looking at a crab copy with sound and animation of a pick axt…. thats money making class 1a
I was really looking forward to this, having in mind it could be some kind of a small asurian lawnmower or a giant scythe. Something like that, something cool…
…but then it is animated like the mining pick. This is very disappointing and not worth any gem, especially not 800 of them!
That’s the way to make some quick money but not to keep players spending Gems on the store!
ArenaNet, i hope you know what to do: Back to the Animation-Desk and do something awesome.
Or just design a new enless Logging Axe, which cleaves Trees in the middle. Than you could use the same animation a third time!
Riverside[DE] | Engineer since Beta
go with the flow
The animation isn’t all that bad. They need to, at the very least, double the size of the ground effect and add a water animation to the sickle, but it IS unlimited uses. Still, I was a bit disappointed when I first used it, I was expecting something more.
That is possibly the worst cash shop item I can think of.
The animation is lazy and actually penalises the person for using it as it takes 3 times as long as a normal sickle. its just copy pasted from the mining pick, and the water effect is lame.
Come on Anet you can do better, and we expect better from you.
Dulfy you should state the short falls of the sickle on your page. They may not care what most of us think or say, but you have more of a podium for them to take note.
The animation is NOT 3x longer than normal. They just removed the progress bar and replaced the slow kneel-and-gently-cut animation with the 3-swing pickaxe animation. Takes the same amount of time as before EXCEPT you can stop it early by moving away thus actually saving time over normal.
Still, I would like to see a different animation. Hacking at those delicate flowers seems to be counter-productive and prone to error. ArenaNet, please fix this and make it pretty for what it is. I’m’a be rather peeved if all my node hits look the same in the end.
they should switch it to the normal sickle animation, but make it so it keeps gathering if you have a second chance instead of having to press F each time.
they should switch it to the normal sickle animation, but make it so it keeps gathering if you have a second chance instead of having to press F each time.
I had already bought and equipped half a dozen characters (I really hate ruined plant fibers…), blithely trusting it’d be cool like the molten pickaxe. Cloning that animation with a burst of spring water instead of lava is just wildly lazy.
Hopefully this is a bug.
“You keep saying ‘its unfair.’
I wonder what your basis for comparison is…”
- Jareth, King of Goblins.
The sickle animation is obviously a bug. When you use it, the model for the sickle is floating above your hands. See my attachment.
Don’t be delusional. They reskinned the mining pick, changed the animation effect, made it work for plants, and threw it in the gem store. Shockingly, more laziness from Anet.
I WANT to buy 800 gems for $10.
I WANT to use those gems to buy a permanent harvesting tool.
But if you’re going to be lazy about it and try to just swipe $10 from me I WON’T buy it.
Anet, stop being lazy, change it to the correct sickle effects (sound and animation), and I’ll give you $10.
Mesmer
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Wow so the sickle is water based. kinda expected it to be air. like slashing across the plant making a mini whirlwind around it. also whats up with that tiny kitten fountain? I would at least expect a geyser.
I’m right with you. I bought the pick ax and I really like it and in fact I want to buy more pick axes now that I have tried it but I cannot because they have removed it and instead are now trying to sell me a half-finished uninspired harvesting tool. To Anet, once again, you need to give your customers more time when introducing new stuff and content. I’m not buying five of anything until I can try it out first and 30 days is not enough time for a casual player so you suffer. As a player I’ll just keep buying picks and tools the cheap way. You need to do things in 90 day cycles, that is more reasonable.
I feel like the person who made this never actually used/seen a scythe being used in rl. http://youtu.be/9TRKLFY9nIc
You don’t hack down at plants, and from what I’ve seen the small spurt of water isn’t really equal to the molten pickaxe. There is the fact that hacking downwards could hit rocks and make this noise, but that’s just not how we would gather in game if given the choice..
In fact we don’t even use scythes in a stabbing manner in most games http://youtu.be/QUkXYsNUEzg , so not really sure where they were going with this.
I know we have an awesome sound guy who works at Arenanet, I’m sure he could do a good job at a scythe cutting grass effect. In fact showing us a video of him doing that might even add more value to the item and make it all the more worth 800 gems. http://youtu.be/E5x2kO0Jq6A
can’t see the animation of both yet but from all the comments I read, both are pretty bad. The kitten is cute at least I might consider buying. But the scythe…..if the animation isn’t as good as molten pick I probably won’t buy because I don’t like gathering much actually….and the ROI takes so long to achieve.
Sickle animation = fail. I Expect it will be Improved. If not, the kindest possible description is MORONIC.
Please send someone out to the garden to actually harvest some veg. Send an assistant with a video recording device of some sort. Then show some integrity instead of a lazy existing animination port. This game is supposed to be an industry leading trendsetter. Everyone who signed off on this tool as is should be embarassed and humiliated.
As for the ‘water’ I did not even see it till I watched some of the posted previews. Apparently my necessary low level graphics, which show the gorgeous Mining Pick animation just fine, are too low to show the water. But IF THEY DID it would still be a FAIL.
EDIT: OK, if you pay close attention there is that spurt of water, even at minimal settings. Still a Fail. But at least my bag will never have a backup sickle ever again.
I think a scythe motion like the videos I listed, with a wind slicing sound would have been just fine. Rather than water spurting up out of ground that probably has no water pockets in it. We could assume the molten pick was a technological pick that causes searing heat and melted ore. The scythe.. I got nothen.
I am thinking it is a bug as well; acting like a mining pick. The water animation makes sense using the harvesting sickle from the side — juicy plants. I’ll wait for ANet to update a fix for it.
Though, you could pay $10 for the sickle, you could also just exchange gold (I’ve done this for many, many items). Still, animation isn’t too bad, strange that it’s a mining pick animation, but the vines and spring deal isn’t horrible. I still think they need to increase the size of the effect so you could actually see it, as they are completely covered by most nodes. Simplest way to cancel the animation is move after you gather your resource.
A really large geyser would be cool. Alternatively the roots springing up could be larger and more aggressive. Anything on par with the mining pick would be nice. And hopefully the mining pick and sickle info gathered will help the axe be cool enough for our taste ^^ Heck you could almost copy and paste the lava effect in water version for geyser. The roots just need a size tweak. And then just fix the silly sound
I am thinking it is a bug as well; acting like a mining pick. The water animation makes sense using the harvesting sickle from the side — juicy plants. I’ll wait for ANet to update a fix for it.
It’s not a bug.
ANet explicitly made a water geyser animation for that. It means that’s the way Anet intends the mining pic… sorry, SICKLE to be used. Most probably, because the original sickle animation doesn’t include stabbing Mother Earth
They COULD just use the Advanced Harvesting Sickle
They COULD just not include a geyser
But they CHOSE to use the Molten Alliance Mining Pick
But they CHOSE to include a geyser
All for the sole reason of increasing the amount of time you spend in staring at the vegetation mesh their art team worked so hard to make.
To be perfectly honest, most probably they want you to be instantly recognized: “OOOOH, that’s the new SICKLE, it’s SICK!”, and the original sickle animation is too short to put a flashy geyser in, so they chose the most obvious (and easiest) route: reskin the mining pick
Last thread got closed because people were qqing and not constructively discussing the topic. Way to start the spiral.
Sooooo….threads calling out Anet on their apparent laziness and terrible lack of quality control aren’t allowed? Hmmm….
Yes being nonconstructive and harassing usually is ^^ I’ve yet to see a Dev call a player lazy, I figure they deserve the same respect. You brought no new info to the discussion other than to gripe and call someone lazy.
Yes being nonconstructive and harassing usually is ^^ I’ve yet to see a Dev call a player lazy, I figure they deserve the same respect. You brought no new info to the discussion other than to gripe and call someone lazy.
I don’t want to be nonconstructive but I want simply add my doubts about the sickle.
I would buy one for my main as I did for the pickaxe, but I’d really appreciate if they change the animation to a sickle one, mantaining the water effect, and the time you need to harvest.
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Yes being nonconstructive and harassing usually is ^^ I’ve yet to see a Dev call a player lazy, I figure they deserve the same respect. You brought no new info to the discussion other than to gripe and call someone lazy.
I don’t want to be nonconstructive but I want simply add my doubts about the sickle.
I would buy one for my main as I did for the pickaxe, but I’d really appreciate if they change the animation to a sickle one, mantaining the water effect, and the time you need to harvest.
I agree, I think much more time and consideration could have been put into making this a better item.
I realize yesterday after reading all these posts and thinking about it a while that maybe we all are thinking about this the wrong way. Maybe Anet isn’t “lazy” but brilliant as the sickle is as disappointing to us as the “resort” is to the refugees. The sickle was overpromised and under delivered much like the resort. It was a “ripoff” of the mining pick much like cheap tourist junk we all are exposed to in rl tourist traps. Maybe the long animation times were done on purpose to make us mad on purpose, because the tool is “broken” because its cheap Consortium “crap.” Even if this is true, I am still not buying one as I want cooler, quicker tools, not themed broken ones. This entire land and the resort are all based on this theme, which is why it is so difficult, so rough and feels unwelcome and fake.
