Guild Wars 2

I’ve been swimming with my level 27 thief and noticed that she isn’t wearing a breathing apparatus anymore. A bug?

Or is this level gated now too? Maybe because I might get confused and scared if I don’t have enough hours in the game?

“Wait… whaaaaaat… hold on, I…. out of water I could see my character’s face but now… somethings on her… mouth, I— TOO MUCH, TOO SOON!!!”

It’s always been this way. You’ve never needed an aquabreather.

Vayne.8563:

It’s always been this way. You’ve never needed an aquabreather.

I’ve had an aqua breather on my characters for the entire life of the game, up until this patch. Big ’ol breathing things. On the face.

Yup.

I just figured it out. It’s if you have an outfit activated. No outfit and you get the re-breather again. At least with the pirate outfit, on a female human thief.

That was REALLY confusing. I don’t think we should be able to swim until level 40.

Squeesidhe.4761:

Vayne.8563:

It’s always been this way. You’ve never needed an aquabreather.

I’ve had an aqua breather on my characters for the entire life of the game, up until this patch. Big ’ol breathing things. On the face.

Yup.

Me too. A year ago I took it off to see what would happen. Nothing at all. You never needed the breather to breathe underwater.

Squeesidhe.4761:

That was REALLY confusing. I don’t think we should be able to swim until level 40.

That’s still too early. Top PvP players (veterans) couldn’t handle swimming and it resulted in an entire map getting removed.

That wasn’t the actual reason, but it’s still funny to think of it that way.