Guild Wars 2

Hi Devs! I’m just kindly asking someone to update Azureflame with a facelift.
Why am I asking this? This bow, which sares the skin with it’s shortbow version “Aether”, is the most expensive non-legendary bow that isn’t RNG.

Due to the skinpacks comming with mutch higher quality than these base skins, and in fact I don’t like the bulky look of those news, plus want to keep myself original as well as others – I am suggesting it to be upgraded graphically, that kind of HQ as weapons come out these days, including it’s flame effect, which more like a water smoke than fire.

I really hope this message gets to someone capeable to do it so, Thank You anyway!

This pic is a quick-scratch concept with my old suggestion about it’s compact sheating animation that could make it really awesome weapon.

Update, Ideas compacted:

• Folding itself when on back (pic)
• Flames up when grabbing it
• Flames up when firing first shot, not that flashing thing
• HQ Texture
• HQ Flame

cool idea, I don’t really use bows but I like the visual flame effect you’ve created there.

nice idea they should also do that to some other “difficult to get” weapon skins, making it more rewarding to get those weapon skins.

Any help from crafter community?

They can’t radically change skins.

How would you feel if you spent plenty of gold on a skin that you were satisfied with, and Anet suddenly pulled the rug under it and reskinned it to something that you do not like?

It isn’t radical – in my opinion. It is called azureFlame, but it isn’t flaming at all.
It’s just smoking – and I believe I have a vaild point on this.
Quality improvements happened in the past – with legendaries, for example.
Those were more risky.

A basic visual upgrade wouldn’t hurt the 95% of these bows owners.

To question your answer… I’m a Ranger. What you think, how did we felt when they nerfed us and not giving a real sign to do anything since CDI, above that, even stating we’re “ok” apart from some pet adjustment? Well, OK comes from “0 Kill”, which can be true for us

As I’ve spoke with the skin users ingame, they would be happy for this change.
Sadly, none of them yet made a supportive comment here -dunno why-

i have Azureflame since release, and no, we dont need change

You’re the first one juxo. There is 11 other guy so far who would like “real blue flames”.
Your opinion is meaningful, even if you didn’t made the effort why you wouldn’t support any change towards improving the quality of a Top weapon.

I think you wouldn’t mind for a basic HQ texture.
The flames? Don’t you want real flames instead of this steam-thing?
Maybe the folding animation? That’s totaly Optional, and I’m sure GW2 will have more of these kind of designs in the future. (yet they have to make Whisperer weapons work)

They did it with the corrupted shortbow, ages ago. They had to change it twice as they originally changed it to a skin no one liked.

The case with Corrupted Shortbow was else.
They did not upgraded quality/finished it, they totaly replaced it.

This suggestion asks for quality upgrade, not model replacement.

If they do the upgrade for Azureflame, they will have to do the same thing for Aether, since they both share the same skin. Moreover, people will complain about their Foefire’s Essense and Foefire’s Hammer ( dont remember the name) is not fiery enough, and Anet have to change that too.

It just becomes a slippery slope, something I’m pretty sure Anet doesn’t want to get involved into.

Possible. If they make the effort to remake, also could send the new version of skin to existing users onto the gardrobe, so the old version could be kept. Or… dunno.

I admit, this move seems risky, but to mention again, I’m not asking for a makeover, just a facelift. A quality upgrade. That wouldn’t hit hard anyone negatively – just very few, in front of a lot more who would like it.

Aaaand there is a reason why players buy-out Fused bows, because that flame is EPIC.