Guild Wars 2

Even if it’s just basic stuff- no updrafts, just ‘I jump off whatever, glider pops out’. I really miss this from AION and you guys implemented it wonderfully in HoT zones.

Edit: even reddit agrees! (https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/3q4jnk/hands_up_whos_died_in_the_core_tyria_world/)

I cannot tell you how many times I have fallen to my death since yesterday because gliders do not work outside the jungle.

I know, right? ;.;

I have to admit though, I laugh every time I die.

Did you know there is no gliding in Orr? (Leap off high place. Hit space bar. SPLAT).

But you wouldn’t die if gliding was everywhere!

Maybe it would be a good idea to add level one gliding in vanilla. Or an abbreviated version of it that just lets you jump off and glide for a short time, enough to reach the ground and land.

No, a thousand times, no.

I really would love this. Gliding is my new favorite activity.

Right, exactly.

They have already said that they cannot add gliding to the Tyria maps. It has to do with several things including the way the maps were made and it would also make some things that are supposed to be somewhat hard then really easy.

My dreams have been destroyed. T^T

+1 to this I really really want to glide all the time. It be great but I wonder how hard it will be to make it work as I am sure with the gilder in the old maps there be ways to get out of bounds or seeing parts of the map that you shouldn’t

PyrateSilly.4710:

They have already said that they cannot add gliding to the Tyria maps. It has to do with several things including the way the maps were made and it would also make some things that are supposed to be somewhat hard then really easy.

It would also trivialize certain jumping puzzles.

Kravick.4906:

It would also trivialize certain jumping puzzles.

In my opinion, mesmers already do that, but I sadly know they had said it is just not an option.

Kreejaffa.3682:

Kravick.4906:

It would also trivialize certain jumping puzzles.

In my opinion, mesmers already do that, but I sadly know they had said it is just not an option.

Some what, yes. But at least one mesmer still has to run the puzzle legitimately at least once. Gliders would allow anyone at any time to basically by pass most if not all of it.

You can’t glide upward, though, so that is only possible if you climb to a nearby high spot.

Well apparently there is the fear of breaking / glitching or something like that because the vanilla maps weren’t made for gliding.
However gliding is so much fun!!! So much fun that I think it’s worth ANet implementing it even if for a while it introduces some issues (which they can later fix).

I somehow feel that is a bad idea

I think we’d all love to see gliding in core maps, but it won’t happen any time soon purely for technical reasons. Maps would have to be totally revamped to accommodate gliding so as to prevent certain things from becoming too easy, prevent players from getting places they shouldn’t be, etc.

I can see it possibly happening in another expansion eventually though, maybe. Kinda like WoW did with one of their expansions to allow flying mounts in their vanilla zones. There is hope, it’s totally possible, but just not likely until at the very least the next expansion, if not later.

That’s what I figured might be feasible, Redattack, though I hope sooner rather than later because reasons.

Would help with nodes in Cursed Shore as the resource maps are terrible and inaccurate at best. Post mastery bar, I ain’t got time to wander around aimlessly.

‘Time is money (xp), friend’

kitten right.

it really wouldn’t hurt to glide in central tyria

Sublimatio.6981:

it really wouldn’t hurt to glide in central tyria

You have to be joking. The zones were not designed for it, and I guarantee it would be exploited.

I can’t believe these suggestions from a “community” that goes purple with rage at the mere mention of mounts.

Anyhow, I’ll just parrot the standard mount arguments. They aren’t vertical zones. We have Waypoints. You don’t need them. Go back to some other game. This is not some other game.

What’s the point of Mastery’s if we can’t use them outside the Jungle? I experted to use them everywhere as per what other games give you.

Are mastery’s just a GATE inside the new Jungle maps to make it take longer to go through the content forcing us to grind a area for Mastery EXP till DR kicks in?

So all these fancy glider skins are a WASTE as when we finish the Jungle maps and get our elite spec finished we won’t ever go back?

They should NEVER have introduced these mastery’s if they add NOTHING to your character outside of being a KEY to a GATE to slow you down from getting your elite spec.

Yes we should be able to glide everywhere.

1. it’s not possible to add gliding to maps that do not support it, that is the gist of it.

2. even if it were possible, it’s not recommended because of the possible exploits.

3. Masteries are there to progress your character into the new zones, which are in fact, Huge, and require cerain masteries to be completed.

Masteries aren’t ‘just’ a Gate, in some way they are, seeing how they’re implemented requiring a lot of exp, but you need them in the new zone(s) as well.
They’re basically forcing you to get them in order to progress through the game.

I think most players love to glide in the new maps and a majority would have loved it in the old maps as well, but i fear that ain’t ever happening.

Teofa Tsavo.9863:

Sublimatio.6981:

it really wouldn’t hurt to glide in central tyria

You have to be joking. The zones were not designed for it, and I guarantee it would be exploited.

I can’t believe these suggestions from a “community” that goes purple with rage at the mere mention of mounts.

Anyhow, I’ll just parrot the standard mount arguments. They aren’t vertical zones. We have Waypoints. You don’t need them. Go back to some other game. This is not some other game.

I’ve always been for mounts!

Would require full rework of all maps, either that or a parachute as a compromise for people that don’t like the falling damage

Make gliding available, but heavily nerfed. A parachute like version of gliding. Enough to jump off something and glide to the ground and not enough to glide to reach jumping puzzles or get across barriers.

When I see people in old maps jumping from high places reminds me of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDEWhH095C8

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Make gliding available, but heavily nerfed. A parachute like version of gliding. Enough to jump off something and glide to the ground and not enough to glide to reach jumping puzzles or get across barriers.

That’s what I’m asking.

functions of gliders (how I use them):

1) reach point b from point a
2) parachuting so you don’t die from falling/jumping from high places

I only want the glider in vanilla gw2 for the 2nd reason though

Also add it to WvW, with Bombs as add-ons…nanananan Baatmaaan.