Guild Wars 2

Hey all,

in the light of the upcoming legendary polishes, I thought I’d share this suggestion/request with you and ANet.

Legendaries are awesome and all, thx for them ANet, but they sometimes and up being underwhelming. I appreciate the constant updates to them, perfecting them etc., but I feel like there could be so much more possible to show them off.

Footprints and trails are all nice, but thanks to the differences in how different professions fight, some professions profit more from this than others. An obvious example would be the trail of Twilight/Sunrise/Eternity, being awesome for warriors/guardians but much less noticeable on mesmers.

What I suggest is too add more profession specific animations, so to enable every profession to uniquely show off their awesome weapon, during combat. The nature of combat in this game, often has the side effect of hiding your nice weapons behind flashy (not complaining, I like flashy) animations. There are already effects like this, I know, but I feel like they are mostly restricting to throwing and projectile animations (mostly the smallest of all animations).

This way, not only are legendaries generally more legendary in combat, in addition people don’t feel like they shouldn’t make a certain legendary because the skills don’t really allow to fully show it’s awesomeness (like the already mentioned dilemma some mesmers have/had with twilight).

Suggestions could be:
- A black/light beam for the mesmer’s Spatial Surge with twilight/sunrise/eternity (*)
- The actual blade coming out of the ground on Mind Stab
- Chaos storm containing crystals and/or rainbows on mesmers with Bifrost
- A whirl of pages around the guardian’s Shield of Absorption with Flameseeker Proph.
- A book instead of a shield flying outward on the guardian’s Shield of Judgement
- Eels instead of chackles on sink/float skills with Kraitkin
- Big quicksilver splashes/pools on heavy hammer jump attacks with Juggernaut

(Yes, I main a mesmer so most of my imaginations goes in that direction.)

I don’t have a legendary myself (yet close to twilight on my mesmer) but I generally would like to see animations like this when fighting, even if they don’t come from me.

So what do you guys think of the idea, and what animations should your legendary or any other legendary have. Time to let your imagination go crazy.

(*) I have to credit this idea to someone else on the forums. Sadly I don’t remember where I read it. So whoever you are, genious idea!

Good idea, but might be a lot of effort to realise. What about custom finishers for each legendary? This way you could show your legendary better in fight, but without having to create animations for every class/legendary combination. But that’s sadly nothing for PvE players

Yea it would take some effort. But seeing how they already put in animations on throwing, and added more animations in the latest update (Bifrost projectile for example) I think it should be very doable. Moreover, I think people would appreciate a wider variety in their “legendary” effects.

On the finisher suggestion. Yea why not I’m more of a PvE guy, but why shouldn’t WvW’ers get some love as well? ^^

Speedfire.6732:

Yea it would take some effort. But seeing how they already put in animations on throwing, and added more animations in the latest update (Bifrost projectile for example) I think it should be very doable. Moreover, I think people would appreciate a wider variety in their “legendary” effects.

On the finisher suggestion. Yea why not I’m more of a PvE guy, but why shouldn’t WvW’ers get some love as well? ^^

Unfortunately it is not as nice as it would seem. Many elementalists, including myself, grind their teeth when they look at the new Bifrost projectile effect which replaces 6 different animations with single poor-looking one.

True but, to be honest, that one was a bad decision of them.

I opt for animations beyond the range of replacing projectiles. I suggest “additions” or “improvements” rather than simple changes to auto-attacks (and the occasional projectile beyond that).

(Yes one of my suggestions changes the mesmer GS auto-attack. But unlike the bifrost, it does not nullify different animations. I only play ele occasionally, but I feel for all bifrost ele’s who suffer from this. )