Guild Wars 2

Hello everyone, Anet Staff and fellow Players, as a new owner of Bifrost I’ve come to see first hand some disheartening things about the legendary staff that shouldn’t be. The player aura sometimes shuts down either in combat or randomly when it shouldn’t, though the footprints and rainbow effects still work. The character with it doesn’t glow when Bifrost is sheathed on the players back which is discouraging as it is a legendary. The last and major point of dis-contention is that Bifrost’s effects feel or look desaturated, if that’s the word. The effects are somewhat unnoticeable in bright lighting conditions but easily noticeable in dark light conditions, as well the foot prints disappear quick quickly though that’s more of a minor thing. Overall the thing I’d like to convey is that Bifrost itself is quite beautiful but the effects accompanying it feel underwhelming for a legendary and should be buffed a little to give it that Legendary gusto. It should have it’s own distinct flavor(effect) if you will, like its legendary cousins the GS and shortbow. I’ve attached an example of the aura shutdown down below as I’ve evidenced.

Thank you all for your time!

All legendary auras turn off when you aren’t actually holding it. It is a combat only effect.

Bifrost is glowing raw light, of course it is less noticable in bright light…that is the point. The bifrost is the name of the rainbow bridge in norse mythology…a bridge of pure light, so it makes sense that something of pure light is harder to notice while in bright light conditions.

You make an excellent point in regards to the sheathing of legendaries and the bright light conditions Runiir. However as evidenced in that above picture the effect seems to shutdown randomly while its unsheathed in combat or out of combat. Fortunately I was able to compare notes today with another Bifrost owner and we discovered that we would sometimes see the other’s aura when we ourselves couldn’t, thusly our computer’s weren’t possibly rendering the glow on our screens. We also took note when our aura’s shut down and neither of us could see it while our Bifrosts were unsheathed and we were in a state of combat. This leads me to speculate that Bifrost’s glow may be dominated by either of two things. One being an unintended bug or two, possible in game culling as we’ve all experienced in WvWvW.
In regards to the pure bright light bridge that is Bifrost it would be nicer if the light is a little bit more noticeable. From the few Bifrost owners to date I’ve had contact with, the general consensus so far seems to favor some sort of buffering of Bifrost’s visual effects. You make good points Runiir, thank you for responding!

It must be a culling issue then, or…are the people you’ve talked to all elementalists? Remember that yoru class gives you an aura effect already (around your hands) that may be clashing witht he effect of bifrost as each aura tries to sit ontop of the other one. Certain elementalist skills also act as an aura. Play around with skills to see if you can force the aura to flicker, it could help them in fixing it.

Updating again, so after a bit more gaming and more meetings with other legendary owners I’ve found one thing to add. The elementalist auras don’t intefere with Bifrost’s aura as you suggested Runiir. However chancing upon a group of legendary owners in Lions Arch it would seem that shouts shutdown the aura of Bifrost which is 99.9% confirmed. This also seemed to be the case for a few other legendary aura’s, which I’m not sure as to why. I’ll keep updating upon finding anything else to add to this mystery.

I’m really disappointed after grinding for hours and getting not-properly working aura effect with my legendary weapon.(bifrost)
It’s not a bright light issue, sometimes aura is not visible(effect is not even rendered) even if the weapon is drawn.
Please fix legendary weapon aura effects, we want to have properly working effects on our legendary items. We have been through so much difficulties in game to get these items, it’s disappointing to see them not working as intended.

I also would like to see this happen.