Guild Wars 2

Will there ever be a fix or ANY word on this?

I am now at the point where I don’t want anything except the constant moon/moon motes effect at night. Forget the muted horn and elevated howl, I just want my Howler to glow and shine at night as brightly as it did before April, to look like a true Legendary, and not just a shiny, large warhorn with a wolf’s head surrounded by a serpent.

The mistforged hero’s warhorn looks more legendary than Howler does, sadly.

This really should be properly fixed. The issue previously was with the audio endlessly looping while unsheathed, not its particle effect and moon graphic. You now have exotics that have more visual flair than a legendary warhorn. Just do what is right and fix this, please. There really is no reason to antagonize people that have worked hard to make this weapon, but that is exactly what you’re doing by ignoring the issue.

I don’t normally ever use the forums for this sort of thing, however… This bug is quite annoying, It ruins the best part of the howler. I care nothing for the looping howl, I just want the moon at night back.

If we could please get some confirmation from a Dev saying It’s being worked on or confirming It is in fact a bug that you plan to fix, that would be fantastic. I wouldn’t normally make a big deal about this… But legendaries take a lot of time and effort, we deserve to have them working correctly.

Thanks!

Still no word I see? Ah well, It was worth a shot!

Truefrost.6815:

Still no word I see? Ah well, It was worth a shot!

Yeah, I’ve “casually” mentioned it other threads fairly often to see if I get any sort of response. But nothing.

Hey,

I finished my Howler yesterday and noticed that the moon doesn’t show up during the night anymore
after some research i found that the day-night cycle is missing since a “fix” for the endless howl soundfile during night in april, is it a bug or intentional?

The moon inside the crest of howler isn’t showing at night time , has this always been bugged ?

it’s been bugged since they “fixed” it. By fixing the endless howl they removed all of the nighttime effects and haven’t said they’re going to re-enable them or anything else.

Will there ever be a fix for this? I mean, there are multiple threads about Howler’s missing night time animation and not one has been answered by an A Net official…and this has been going on for months.
It’s ridiciulous. Please fix it. You haven’t fixed it the last time around, you’ ve broken it – to the point where it’s no longer legendary and definitely not worth the work many people put into it.

So even after the most recent update and the removal of tonic auras with legendaries, my howler is still bugged. After getting the bug pretty much all the time for the past 2 months i realized its from entering a stack of players/npcs and when i leave the aura is gone. Here are pics below with the first 2 taken just before this post(first pic of each set shows the bug with the second pic after stowing weap and re-equipping). It also clips hardcore with female “in-combat” standing animations but i don’t see this changing. At least fix the aura plz anet.

There’s another thread with a dev response on this. Its every aura when being in a large group of players or NPC. I’m too lazy to find the thread tho haha. But they just said they would look into it.

Andraus.3874:

There’s another thread with a dev response on this. Its every aura when being in a large group of players or NPC. I’m too lazy to find the thread tho haha. But they just said they would look into it.

Yea, i’ve seen that thread too. But i havent seen frostfang bug since the patch. So i assumed some of the legendary bugs were fixed. So the auras are still not working on other legendaries as well, lame :/

Any word if this is going to be fixed? I’m pretty close to making this but I’m going to hold out till I know it gets all it’s features back again….

It’s like buying a new car only to be told the sweet dash board lights don’t work.

Saw yorr post on reddit or one similar and I agree that it needs to be fixed. It’s underwhelming for a legendary currently and it’s had half it’s features removed.

I’m pretty close to completing mine but I’m holding off in hopes it gets tweaked. In my opinion the moon needs to return to the horn at night and the wolf image needs to last a second longer when you use the horn.

Not having a glow feature on the weapon is a huge disappointment. Not to mention the Adventure Box and Layline horns both have unique sounds and Howler sounds like a wolf with asthma.

People have asked for it to be fixed before but it’s not a super popular legendary so it didn’t get a lot of attention.

IF YOU READ THIS BUMP.

They removed what…?

I have never thought of building a legendary before
until the RNG god just happened to bestow a Howl upon me….

Now you guys sounds like it’s not worth building it anymore….

Please fix this! My Howler (and my Norn) are sad

WHAT! So that take away our looping howl and now our only cool effect we got!!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Please bring back the awesome!!!

I’d rather not have the looping sound effect back. I tend to use my 4 and 5 at the same time and with the old Howler sounds that would cause intense bleeding of my ear-holes. Bringing back the moon animation, would be a great idea – they’ve been working so hard to make current legendaries more flashy, so why would they take effects away from the more subtle ones?

Maximum Potato.5923:

I’d rather not have the looping sound effect back. I tend to use my 4 and 5 at the same time and with the old Howler sounds that would cause intense bleeding of my ear-holes. Bringing back the moon animation, would be a great idea – they’ve been working so hard to make current legendaries more flashy, so why would they take effects away from the more subtle ones?

Apparently it was removed because there was a bug. Every other legendary that’s had bugs has been fixed. Why is this one being ignored? Seriously if this was Eternity they would fix it right away because the masses would be crying.

Can’t we get a little service?

Similar topic going on at reddit right now: http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/2v62ji/question_will_the_howler_effects_ever_return/

As the one who did put up that reddit post a couple days ago, I agree that these effects need to return for sure. It couldn’t be too hard to work around the coding for it. I would like the howl sound to be louder of course, the crescent moon is an absolute must all night long with the sparkles for the starry night effect. The ghostly wolf projection is okay for now, but an increase in how long it stays in the air would be awesome.

As of right now, it’s effects are subpar, and approximately half of what the other legendaries offer… Like I mentioned in my reddit post, my Frostfang I made a few days ago is so much more unique and the effects are much more prominent than Howler’s effects are.

I loved Howler since the day I made it and was so happy with all the lovely animations and effects. Since the removal it feels like something is missing. The incessant howling was a little much, I agree… but please give us the moon back. You can’t just remove items from a Legendary, that is quite a disappointment once you finally made one.

Sukrin.1280:

As the one who did put up that reddit post a couple days ago, I agree that these effects need to return for sure. It couldn’t be too hard to work around the coding for it. I would like the howl sound to be louder of course, the crescent moon is an absolute must all night long with the sparkles for the starry night effect. The ghostly wolf projection is okay for now, but an increase in how long it stays in the air would be awesome.

As of right now, it’s effects are subpar, and approximately half of what the other legendaries offer… Like I mentioned in my reddit post, my Frostfang I made a few days ago is so much more unique and the effects are much more prominent than Howler’s effects are.

Ya saw your post on reddit I was really bummed to hear that it was removed because recently after completing gift of mastery and fortune I chose to build the howler because I loved the moon effect. I wish hopefully also that they include maybe a similar effect in the day

Mt finger is itching to buy but I’m holding off for now.

This is just a bump post to keep it within dev view range. I apologize if bumps are frowned upon, but this is to keep the idea of returning Howler to the same standard as the other legendaries.

I’ve said it in other threads but just thought i’d mention here that legendary auras are still currently bugged, even after the most recent patch. Whenever you enter a crowd of people, npcs or areas with multiple particle effects the aura will disappear. Or at least howler’s mist aura is bugged for sure(witnessed today). This is in addition to all the other bugs(moon and sparkles missing at night). Considering that howler’s aura is the most prominent affect it has, this legendary is in a pretty sad state. I’d go as far to say its the most underwhelming legendary right now because of all the bugs. And i’m worried anet wont pay much attention to it cause its a warhorn which is not as popular of a weapon as a greatsword, for example. Which is why i keep posting about it lol

Really? I play this game for 2 years.. i get the enormous luck to drop a precursor and decide…ok lets craft it.. and guess what.. the RNG gods decide that droping the prec wasn’t hard enough…lets give you the buged legendary one…
YaY…
Can someone from anet plz give us an eta on this subject?
Anyone working on this fix??
Im pretty sure if this was a staff of the beloved guards or a twilight it would take 2 days to get fixed due to the crowds crying..
show some love for the warriors pleaseeeee….

need some hekp from anet with the legendary weapon “The Howler”.

As this topic:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Howler-fix/first#post4789116

The night effect is gone…the wolf is lasting animation is not lasting as long as before…neither the moon animation…the sound is not there too..
Legendary weapons are the only real end game goal in gw2 and when you finish crafting it…finding out it is bugged…its kinda really disappointing….
Please someone from anet take a look at this seriously…

Bugged since last April…. a little info here and a huge list of threads about bugged Howler. Really wish they’d fix it. (Yeah the thread was originally about Incinerator, but the linked post is about Howler)

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Incinerator-Flame-Extinguished/first#post4632747

Come on ANET..help us out.

BassHunteR.7246:

Really? I play this game for 2 years.. i get the enormous luck to drop a precursor and decide…ok lets craft it.. and guess what.. the RNG gods decide that droping the prec wasn’t hard enough…lets give you the buged legendary one…
YaY…
Can someone from anet plz give us an eta on this subject?
Anyone working on this fix??
Im pretty sure if this was a staff of the beloved guards or a twilight it would take 2 days to get fixed due to the crowds crying..
show some love for the warriors pleaseeeee….

And with the new adding of the crimson warhorn with its own very cool sound effect… I feel as if were getting left behind ;(

I was interested in acquiring a Howler, but then I noticed that several effects are bugged, Day and night Cycle is bugged, draw effects are gone amongst other things.

I really love this legendary, but if there is no update from Anet on when this is getting fixed it seems like a waste getting it.

I recall that before with the bugs on legendaries(like the incinerator not showing the blade) it got hotfixed the SAME day, Remember the screeching sound on the dreamer recently? same thing it got fixed instantly, why hasn’t this happened for the howler yet?

Not yet… recently all that us warriors get instantly…are nerfs after other classes cry.
I have same issue but i dropped the prec and am about to finish the craft…but then…finishing a legendary just to find out that most effects and animations on it are bugged… what is the point on crafting it then???
Really disappointing….
Worst part is…
If it ever happens with a staff boom…insta hot fix in 15 mins cause ele/guards cant be let down…
Come on ANET at least give us an E.T.A. on this or say that it is being worked on..thats all we want to hear

Seriously we are talking about a LEGENDARY weapon here, this issue has been ignored far too long, I’m glad i found out about this before I crafted Howler, but for the people that have worked for this it must be even more annoying.

I just can’t understand why we can’t even get a simple response on this by ANET, it’s just being Ignored, It’s not that Legendaries have been forgotten there have been multiple legendary upgrades and fixes over the past year, the latest being sound dissapearing from them or not functioning properly(see Quip and Dreamer)

This should be bumped till we get a response or a fix of somekind

What really bothers me is the 0 replies from ANET..
They reply to other topic in same section… i hqve sent gaile a pm..
I have created a topic on bugs section and i will keep bumping these whenever they go to second page… i will get an infraction…but that means they came to the topic and read it at least…
If they care enough to add a reply…will be totally worth it…
Seriously.
11 months of a legendary weapon completely bugged..
Nothing done?? I know you guys can fix this…..

BTW, is anyone able to make some kind of a video to show it’s current “effects” and see everything that’s bugged? especially the day and night time cycle which is easy to show in like AC

+1, please fix it at least with the release of HoT.

BassHunteR.7246:

So..been almost a year on this bug already.. how can we get some atention from ANET on this??
Ideas??

Wee will ride an elder dragon past their place of work and even then they’ll probably not notice us ;(

Exeon.4358:

BTW, is anyone able to make some kind of a video to show it’s current “effects” and see everything that’s bugged? especially the day and night time cycle which is easy to show in like AC

I got a preview yesterday with some random guy I saw who had it, should’ve recoded it….
Ya would be nice to see an updated wiki or something on it cause I didn’t know about being bugged till after I made it….

edit: updated the wiki myself removing the part of the moon at night…

What is they added wolf footprints…

Ahh! So THAT’s why this legendary has been so underwhelming. I never saw the original effects in the first place.

Things like this that sit on the very back of the attention list are so very frustrating.

Nightwin.6423:

Exeon.4358:

BTW, is anyone able to make some kind of a video to show it’s current “effects” and see everything that’s bugged? especially the day and night time cycle which is easy to show in like AC

I got a preview yesterday with some random guy I saw who had it, should’ve recoded it….
Ya would be nice to see an updated wiki or something on it cause I didn’t know about being bugged till after I made it….

edit: updated the wiki myself removing the part of the moon at night…

Actually it would have been better to update it with notes as “Anomaly night time cycle is currently bugged” there are enough players right now that are unaware of what howler was and it’s pretty sad to be honest

Exeon.4358:

Nightwin.6423:

Exeon.4358:

BTW, is anyone able to make some kind of a video to show it’s current “effects” and see everything that’s bugged? especially the day and night time cycle which is easy to show in like AC

I got a preview yesterday with some random guy I saw who had it, should’ve recoded it….
Ya would be nice to see an updated wiki or something on it cause I didn’t know about being bugged till after I made it….

edit: updated the wiki myself removing the part of the moon at night…

Actually it would have been better to update it with notes as “Anomaly night time cycle is currently bugged” there are enough players right now that are unaware of what howler was and it’s pretty sad to be honest

^

Best to let the developers know we care.

DarkWasp.7291:

Exeon.4358:

Nightwin.6423:

Exeon.4358:

BTW, is anyone able to make some kind of a video to show it’s current “effects” and see everything that’s bugged? especially the day and night time cycle which is easy to show in like AC

I got a preview yesterday with some random guy I saw who had it, should’ve recoded it….
Ya would be nice to see an updated wiki or something on it cause I didn’t know about being bugged till after I made it….

edit: updated the wiki myself removing the part of the moon at night…

Actually it would have been better to update it with notes as “Anomaly night time cycle is currently bugged” there are enough players right now that are unaware of what howler was and it’s pretty sad to be honest

^

Best to let the developers know we care.

Thanks for the tip just added that in.

we care… plz ANET help us…someone..plz..anyone from ANET say something
“we are working on it”
“it will be fixed on HoT realease”
even a simple
“we don’t really care about The Howler”
would be ok.. cause then i would just sell the prec and move on…

Nightwin.6423:

Thanks for the tip just added that in.

Great, I’m just wondering i keep hearing something about the mist not working properly either, can someone elaborate on that?

Exeon.4358:

Nightwin.6423:

Thanks for the tip just added that in.

Great, I’m just wondering i keep hearing something about the mist not working properly either, can someone elaborate on that?

As far as I know its working, however I’ve heard that it has bugged after leaving heavy particle areas ie frostgorge sound

Ya I’ve been trying to create a bunch of forums on this topic cause I’m bummed to, check out this forum there’s also a link in their for an even larger thread on the issue
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Howler-fix/first#post4795120

Examples of the Mist aura working and not working after leaving a cluttered area(too many npc, players, particles or mix of the 3 will bug it). If you stow your weap and re-equip it will come back. Still a disappointing bug imo.