Guild Wars 2

Hello! When I first started playing GW2, I loved the idea of warriors and what their theme was. I was greatly inspired by this video (located in the Warrior Profession Tab on this website), and it is probably the reason I wanted to play warriors so bad. Specifically at 0:39 in the video.

That being said, when I got to the game, the very first night it was pre-released, I made my warrior. I was so excited about all of it that it took me a while to realize that he… well… wasn’t really that awesome. Then I realized. It was the sword animation. In the video, his attacks are elaborate, powerful, and beautiful. In game, the attacks are like the ones that the other people have in the video. Small, lame, and strangely reminiscent of a little dirt trailing on the end of the blade.

PLEASE restore the warrior animations. They are what gave us our theme, and a big part of what makes Guild Wars so visually attractive. If it seems like it would be controversial, then by all means make it a checkbox in the options menu to, “Show enhanced warrior animation.”

I am not asking for you to make something new and incredible. I am really impressed by what you guys have done in the past, and I hope that you guys will be able to appreciate it enough to re-implement it into the game.

NOTE: I realize that there was an animation in game that had more effects, however that was more recently and was more like a blob appearing on the target, rather than the “stroke” like effect in the video.

Thank you for all you have done and continue to do to make this game what it is.