Guild Wars 2

New animation in this patch. Maybe it’s a bug? I do not like it. Looks like she has a wooden chopper, not a huge sword floor hundreds of pounds.

I actually really like it! Looks like she holds it with more strength and less like she’s dragging it on the ground.

Impossible to hold with such ease hunk of metal that weighs like you. Also, now the animation is almost the same, as with all the other weapons. Became a little boring.

You can’t do it because you’re a human.

Your norn can do it because it’s a NORN.

Norns are much stronger than humans. Eir Stegalkin wasn’t a strong Norn, and she once lifted a 500lbs boulder with ease.

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Impossible to hold with such ease hunk of metal that weighs like you. Also, now the animation is almost the same, as with all the other weapons. Became a little boring.

The medieval greatswords weigh between 6 and 10 lbs. You must be pretty small if you weigh that much.

Impossible to hold with such ease hunk of metal that weighs like you. Also, now the animation is almost the same, as with all the other weapons. Became a little boring.

If we go by lore, female Norns should have no problem lifting such swords. I don’t really understand your point with the animations looking the same. Each weapon animation looks vastly different especially the Hammer and Staff.

Let’s see … my female Norn can leap three or four meters with a much heavier hammer poised overhead and swing it down on someone’s head. She can spin with a hammer or great sword at something like three revolutions per second and still move across terrain while doing it. She can swing this heavier hammer underhand and smack a 500 pound creature two meters away. She can battle with Great Sword and Hammer for 15 or 20 minutes at a time and not look a bit fatigued, in fact, brags the entire time while doing it.

But she shouldn’t be able hold a great sword parallel to her body when she runs? Really? At 9 feet tall, 300 pounds of lean, magic laden, muscle? I was having more problems with the fact she was dragging the sword around every where.

No respectable Norn drags a sword.

Love the change. Hated dragging my stupid sword around. Norn should look stronger than that. Thanks Anet.

If I could make one more improvement: standing around idle goes back to the human female stance. Like to see that change.

I would love to have Azura male GS animation on Norn, where she would carry sword on her shoulder while running. xD

Oh the joy!! I have avoided two handed great swords all this time on my mesmer because she looked so pitiful carying it! I cannot WAIT to log her in again this afternoon!

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Let’s see … my female Norn can leap three or four meters with a much heavier hammer poised overhead and swing it down on someone’s head. She can spin with a hammer or great sword at something like three revolutions per second and still move across terrain while doing it. She can swing this heavier hammer underhand and smack a 500 pound creature two meters away. She can battle with Great Sword and Hammer for 15 or 20 minutes at a time and not look a bit fatigued, in fact, brags the entire time while doing it.

But she shouldn’t be able hold a great sword parallel to her body when she runs? Really? At 9 feet tall, 300 pounds of lean, magic laden, muscle? I was having more problems with the fact she was dragging the sword around every where.

No respectable Norn drags a sword.

Very well put! I am glad there is someone to voice it as eliquently as you did. I’m too much of Effy Hates big ugly sword cuz it makes me look like puny human twit RAAWWRRR SMASH type of person.

I didn’t even notice it. Not much of a difference. I honestly wish she held it more like everyone else, a bit more upright and ready to strike, weapon pointed to the sky. It makes her look weak. You especially wouldn’t hold it that way in real life, unless you wanted to die.

I didn’t mind the old one- the position the sword was held in makes a lot of sense for a long, high leverage weapon because it allows your first strike to come up under the enemies guard with lots of power. What wasn’t cool is that it looked like she was about to drop it.

The new position isn’t bad either. What’s bad is that it’s clunky and doesn’t link properly to the attack animation. It’s obviously not as fined tuned as the original and not an improvement.

What’d be really awesome is if she just threw it over her shoulder and swung it around like a twig. That would convey some strength and confidence there.

The new animation is AWEFUL. Who would hold a greatsword like that while running? You’d actually have to push it forward while running to counteract the wind force. The old animation was perfect.

I don’t know about greatsword but I would have to say that weapons aren’t scaling comparatively when you scale the size of your Norn. My small Norns 1 handed sword is almost shoulder height and drags on the ground as I run.

The old animation was messing all armor while moving, the new one is better compared to that BUT it could still be better than this Combat slowed mode with swiftness and third auto attack on warrior, guardian(don’t know about others) are still in no good shape imo.

On the upside, the jerkiness from the 3rd attack in the ranger attack chain is gone (or minimized to unnoticable levels).

On the downside, the transitions to every other animation are jerky now.

can anyone link or put up a video for those of us still at work of the new gs animation?

Edit: Nevermind , my reading comprehension is off whack today.

With new animation textures of right hand buged on many gloves

I just created a female norn and she runs with the GS dragging on the grould like my human and slyvari do is this animation effected by height slider or did they patch it back to the old animation?

No it’s not the same, but it does look like they added more sway and bob to it so it’s less jerky now. It’s still more out to the side then the old one.

I also noticed the Female Human uses the old Norn animation now. Dunno if they did before or not, since I don’t play one with a GS.

Before the change, human and norn females had the same run animation for the GS with the sword being dragged. I had a feeling this was never intended for the norn and was only a filler until what we got now, which is the sword lifted higher and more to the side. She also seems to have more hip movement than the previous one.