Guild Wars 2

A patch within the last few months disabled the ability of a lot of minis to swim. Some of these didn’t have swimming animations yet (like the Orrian chick) which seemed to be part of why those were disabled— but minis like the Mini Jack-a-Lop DID have swimming animations, which you can discover by popping a tonic and getting into the water. Instead of poofing back, you swim.

However, this one, and likely some others, also got their ability to swim disabled. This is a serious annoyance, since I like my minis but I am also very much into open-world PvE. Anytime I go into swim mode, my Jack-a-Lop vanishes, even though a swim animtion IS coded into that particular critter.

Please bring it back!

What annoys me the most about minis is that you have to double click them every few minutes because the game decides to stash them every time you touch water or leave the map or die (etc.)

The main reason given by the devs is that they don’t have the time to create unique swimming animations for each mini, which I understand completely, but here’s the thing: why not just put the mini into a bubble of air, and it can float by your side? The bubbles are already in game (dwarf mini dungeon, some skills) so there wouldn’t be that much to code, and it would make additional animations unnecessary.

Yeah.

But as it is, why disable minis who DO have swimming animations?

Swimmings. Q.Q <3333

The main reason I don’t buy mini’s (as much as I would LOVE to) is the fact that most of them:

1) cannot swim (and therefore, are put away)
2) are put away when I waypoint

I wish Anet would fix this, because I really love miniatures, but with them constantly being put away when you go underwater or waypointing, it defeats the whole purpose of having them :-( until those things change, they’re just going to collect dust in my collectibles tab :-/

Zaoda.1653:

The main reason I don’t buy mini’s (as much as I would LOVE to) is the fact that most of them:

1) cannot swim (and therefore, are put away)
2) are put away when I waypoint

I wish Anet would fix this, because I really love miniatures, but with them constantly being put away when you go underwater or waypointing, it defeats the whole purpose of having them :-( until those things change, they’re just going to collect dust in my collectibles tab :-/

You forgot :
3) you have to buy an invisible bag or else, each time you stash collectables, it goes to your bank.

Ah and that XD yeah that’s hella annoying.

I though of buying 251 Zojja so she never goes to bank… then I bought an invisible bag thay annoys me now and then…

I do agree that minis need more quality of life improvements, but I really do hope they can change whatever switch is wrongly disabling minis with swimming animations from swimming.

Pixelpumpkin.4608:

What annoys me the most about minis is that you have to double click them every few minutes because the game decides to stash them every time you touch water or leave the map or die (etc.)

The main reason given by the devs is that they don’t have the time to create unique swimming animations for each mini, which I understand completely, but here’s the thing: why not just put the mini into a bubble of air, and it can float by your side? The bubbles are already in game (dwarf mini dungeon, some skills) so there wouldn’t be that much to code, and it would make additional animations unnecessary.

That would so be cute to see a little mini floating around in a bubble!!! Also a good idea around creating individual swimming animations, basically program the bubble and you are good to go for all. As cute as some minis swim animation are I wouldn’t mind giving up on it and just switching over to the bubble idea if all of them no longer break in the water.

Please let our minis swim again, ANet! ;.;

I really like the mini bubble idea.

Thanks guys. I’ve suggested it before and I’ll keep doing it – maybe one day a dev will read it and find it worthy.

I hope they do. <333