Guild Wars 2

I saw one at Teq that had moving tentacles. Mine never did that. Is it supposed to move like the Sclerite Karka Shell?

That’s … impressive. Could it be an infused version? I don’t know much about infusing stuff, though.

I’ve never worn Mawdrey so I don’t know if it should move or not.

Doh, it’s a sylvari with the influence of Mordemoth your mawdrey will be animated

PS(I have no idea why)

I don’t know but I want to train mine to wiggle.

I have a sylvari with an infused mawdrey and it does NOT move like the second pic, it moves just a tiny bit, but it looks exactly the way the first pic does.

So I don’t think it has anything to do with either of those things.

This is really interesting… I certainly want my mawdrey to look less rigid and more alive.

Here’s a few theories I have, I’ll be testing them out shortly:
-Does it have something to do with graphical options? Animation? I checked, my animation is on highest and there is no difference between settings.
-Is it a bug? Is it possible that the one that has more movement is the unbugged version? This is most likely, in my opinion. The movement of the tentacles in the super-animated version are similar to the ones that pop out of the ground from mordrem skills, leading me to think that this is the intended version
-Does quickness affect these sorts of animations? I don’t think so anyway, but mawdrey doesn’t appear to be animated anyway (see below).

I just hopped in game to look at mawdrey on one of my characters. I always thought that there was a slight animation to it, but now I look at it, it has sort of “floppy” parts which move with your character’s animations, making it appear to move. You can test this for yourself if your character is standing still, and take a quick step forward/to the side

You should feed it more. Yours is probably malnourished.

Horribly ugly backpiece anyhow.

This happened to a friend and I, hers was animated on my screen, mine was animated on her screen. I think it might be on purpose.

So it probably is bugged & supposed to move? I like Lunar’s idea. Sypmtoms of Mordi’s influence will show in mordi/sylvari skins .

They all look the same to me, mine and anyone elses, I only see the lesser animated one.

Guys, what if it is just in sync with the floating platform the sylvari is standing on?

I need the wiggling, looks so much more alive that way

thats very interesting… never noticed that there is an version that is moving so much

just searched and found a 1 year old topic on reddit about the same thing:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/2dkyaf/is_the_cultivated_vinemawdrey_glitched/

cant believe i never saw the animated version in 1 year actively playing^^

Here you see the 2 different versions:
http://gfycat.com/AdmirableNeighboringIndianelephant
those are not even the final mawdrey versions yet .. just cultivated vines!

but noone has a clue why 1 is moving and 1 not :/