Guild Wars 2

I’m a big fan of GW2, but one thing that puzzles me is falling damage. Fall off a cliff or a roof and you take damage. Makes sense!

Jump off any height into water and you get nothing but wet! Now, studies have shown that falling onto water is not quite as lethal as onto solid rock, but it’s still extremely painful and can be fatal too if it’s high enough!

The diving goggles item you find at vistas should be an exception. Those are great, and it makes sense in world that they offer some sort of magical protection. But it seems strange I can jump from 3-400 feet onto water and just sink a bit as the only result.

So my suggestion would be to have falling damage into water when not using dive goggles be 1/2 to 1/3 of falling the same distance onto normal ground.

I think the problem is that there are a lot of very very high up areas that are specifically designed so you can jump down into a body of water below. Areas that even with 1/2 the damage of a ground fall would still kill you.

I do wish they would add a diving animation though. I hate that my character belly flops onto the water and then magically submerges.

This is the case in quite a few other games (Skyrim and the Assassin’s Creed series are two that come to mind). There’s also the problem that the borderlands maps in WvW are designed to require water-jumping for efficient movement from the defenders’ Garrison to other parts of the map. So adding water fall damage would require a complete redesign of at least three maps (not to mention reworking of some PvE zones).

FlamingFoxx.1305:

I think the problem is that there are a lot of very very high up areas that are specifically designed so you can jump down into a body of water below. Areas that even with 1/2 the damage of a ground fall would still kill you.

I do wish they would add a diving animation though. I hate that my character belly flops onto the water and then magically submerges.

There is a diving animation (well, I have never seen an asura or charr do one yet, though I refuse to play Asura as they come across as a race full of brats…being I hate kids…well…there you go) the animation only plays however if your weapon is sheathed and you run intto the water off a beach…and event hen it’s like a 1 out of 5 times thing.