Guild Wars 2

As the patch notes said bolt did get new projectile effects which are really terrible lol but it also said “custom projectile” effects , what does this mean exactly?
Can we revert it back to the old projectile effects?
The projectiles are literally throwing more bolts which looks very bad :/(not even shiny bolts)
The scepter projectiles look way better and shiny ????

Loving the new meteorlogicus projectiles on my guardian…. then I used zealots defense with bolt and now I never want to use the skill again. It’s seriously BAD. Why couldn’t we get bolts of electricity, hell it could have been the exact same effect as the ele air staff auto attack and I would have been super happy with that.

yea, whats wrong with bolts projectile, its only a model of bolt with no trail effect what so ever…

Ikr !
Its worse for berserker warriors flame fury!
Hopefully we can revert it back to default

I’m all up for custom projectiles on old legendaries…BUT PLS make it appropriate. When I read the notes I was expecting like bolts of lightning or something, not the ACTUAL weapon Bolt . Pls revert, it makes Berserker’s F1 on Sword look really goofy as well as Zealot’s Defense on guardian.

Why the hell does Bolt, chuck out Bolts from guardian 3, it looks stupid, why did no one think to make it launch lightning i mean its BOLT!, its like if i got kudzu and it launched more kudzus instead of the golden arrows.

Now bolt is like a big joke compared to the new leg sword.
Thanks Anet for this kitten animation …..

can someone post a video showing how it works when changed?

Mikali.9651:

can someone post a video showing how it works when changed?

There you go. HOPEFULLY it’s changed again sometime soon.

Chillymanic.7430:

Why the hell does Bolt, chuck out Bolts from guardian 3, it looks stupid, why did no one think to make it launch lightning i mean its BOLT!, its like if i got kudzu and it launched more kudzus instead of the golden arrows.

yea, it only chuck out bolts, and only bolts, not a single trail effect from bolt rotating, only bolt…unlike the new legendary sword where it shows trail when sword rotating..

https://streamable.com/99rw9

shining blade one, skip to the near end

has anyone figured out what did “custom projectile effects” mean?
Or do we now get used to the new lame bolt projectiles?
????

It would be ok if there was electricity flying with the blade, with the same intensity Meteorlogicus has. I hope that it’s actually a bug.

Just adding my name to the petition. I much prefer the old Bolt’s projectile animation.

What’s really stupid is that there is ONE skill that’s about throwing your sword at the enemy – one! And it’s not even really used all that often! (Warrior Sword 4). Well, I guess Revenant Sword 2’s default projectile is the sword model, but still Zealot’s defense, Flaming Fury, and…. Revenant Sword 2 (I can’t remember its name)… all would look better with just a lightning bolt as a projectile effect.

Sartharina.3542:

What’s really stupid is that there is ONE skill that’s about throwing your sword at the enemy – one! And it’s not even really used all that often! (Warrior Sword 4). Well, I guess Revenant Sword 2’s default projectile is the sword model, but still Zealot’s defense, Flaming Fury, and…. Revenant Sword 2 (I can’t remember its name)… all would look better with just a lightning bolt as a projectile effect.

Atleast this or just revert back to default projectile effect

here we go, another classic 2 steps forward, 1 step back.

Agreed. I crafted incinerator and love the look of it, but the projectile animation is the same thing. Why is my elementalist throwing daggers? I would much rather use the standard animations.

Can we have an option to disable the projectile effect on legendary weapons? These animations where our characters throw the weapon itself are really lame.

What a joke! Why doesn’t it shoot lightning bolts?

Hopefully the custom projectiles will mean having the option to keep standard projectiles or use the legendary ones for those who like the style, aura, and footsteps of the legendaries but still want their skills to appear as they normally would.

(Speaking as an elementalist main, seeing the elemental skills all appear the same no matter what attunement it’s in is just odd and a bit boring to me, and having more options is always nice.)

I can’t use Bolt on my Guardian right now. It looks ridiculous.

Only class which can use bolt now without being ashamed is probably Mesmer and thief lol
Please anet change the projectile effects !

Yea it just looks good on Mesmer now
Hopefully arenanet will change the projectile effects

The programmer responsible for the april fool jokes probably have been released too late from his sleep in the cryo-tank.

Now ArenaWebs. Look what u haz done.

Won’t play my sword-guradian anymore. My whole life went down the drain. I cry 36 hours a day.

Please get rid of this awful looking change to the effect of bolt.

Please please please acknowledge this thread.

Bolts projectile effect is either bugged, or unfinished and needs reverting/reworking.

Hi, just adding another post to this thread. I also do not like the new bolt projectiles, either bolts of lightning or the original animation back please.

I wished i could swap my Bolt for the new one. Because that one actually DOES have some custom effects. Really unfair for bolt owners.

Anet, please, we need better bolt projectiles effects!

I kind of get the idea behind the Bolt thing, the thrown weapon looks great on Twilight because of the trail. If you look really close, you can sort of see the lightning on Bolt. But the effect is just too small, even if it is to scale. Maybe increase the intensity of the lightning on the Bolt, so it looks like something other than just the frame of Bolt, which looks like something pulled out of somebody’s porch railing.

Thelgar.7214:

I kind of get the idea behind the Bolt thing, the thrown weapon looks great on Twilight because of the trail. If you look really close, you can sort of see the lightning on Bolt. But the effect is just too small, even if it is to scale. Maybe increase the intensity of the lightning on the Bolt, so it looks like something other than just the frame of Bolt, which looks like something pulled out of somebody’s porch railing.

I dont see any lightning trail though

Yeah, please revert the Bolt projectiles…
It looks really lackluster for warriors.

Can we please get this reverted already!

Anet manage to make a mediocre skin Legendary even more mediocre by adding this worthless animation to downgrade it even more..

I made Bolt for the lightning effect around me back then.
Guess this was a big mistake…
And they did that right after they introduce a far better new sword legendary.
When you make a people who own the legendary regret about owning it, you’re seriously making something very wrong.

Looks like this is all planned ahead already, to destroy people who own Bolt and make them want to make new legendary.

Thanks Anet for ruining us who spent alot of effort making Bolt.

Once you destroy a Legendary weapon by ruining it’s effects, you show the ability to ruin any and all of them. This tells everyone that going to the efforts of making any Legendary weapon can rapidly become a huge waste of time. Any weapon, any generation, plain and simple. Buy a precursor so you get the one you want? Nope, you’ll never really know what it will become.
Put the Predator on the shelf because Rifle has become a laughing stock, now Bolt.

They really should have all projectile attacks distinguish between ‘normal’ and ‘thrown weapon’ – have Thrown Weapon attacks use the weapon model as the projectile, legendary or not, and legendary projectiles should overwrite those, while being unique to the legend:
Sunrise/Twilight – As is, but without the hilt.
Astralaria+Frostfang – I think all axe projectiles are thrown, so they should be fine.
Bolt/Shining Blade: Shining Blade should have its purple flame thign, and Bolt should be a lightning bolt wrapped in lightning
Incinerator: Extended Whirling or straight bolt of fire, no hilt.