Guild Wars 2

The current preview of weapons and armour is great don’t get me wrong. But I think there is at least one more addition that could be made just to make it all that much better.

That being, below the current 3 checkboxes there is a new option. It would be called “watch animation” or something. It would only apply to weapons and the effect would be that you use the weapon as in an attack animation.

What would be the benefit of this? Well the idea came to me mainly because someone linked a bow (the new BLTC ones) in map chat and I thought to myself, “it looks ok but I wonder how the arrows look when they fire?”.

Obviously for projectile weapons I think this would be the main benefit but I can see melee weapons as well having a purpose. There are many skins in the game and sometimes I think people overlook some simply because of the skin itself. With a feature such as this, people may just be inclined to give some of the older less seen skins another look and may even think “hey that looks cool in action, never thought it was that good”.

I could see this also being a benefit to anet as new weapons that they bring to the Gemstore may just advertise their full glory more with such a feature and thus they may get more sales.

One last thing, I decided to start using greatsword on my Mesmer a while back and went hunting for the right skin for him. I don’t recall the name of the one that I chose but I think it’s an Asuran theme. I chose it because it was Pink/Purple, as you do for Mesmer. :P Back on track, I only chose it because of the skin however upon using it I noticed it fires pink/purple beams which just suits the Mesmer even more! I’m not sure it’s that colour BECAUSE he is a Mesmer or as part of the weapon. But if the latter, again this just goes to show how great such an addition could be.

Please support if you think this could be a great idea! After all it took AGES for the preview system to come in the first place and MANY suggestion/posts asking for it from MANY people. So please post a reply to let anet know if you think it’s a good idea or not.

I think it’s a great idea (if not too difficult/time-consuming to implement). =)

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

I think it’s a great idea (if not too difficult/time-consuming to implement). =)

Yeah hopefully something like this would not take too much work/manpower. I should imagine they would need to create a basic attack animation and just apply that to our char and then multiply that x every skin I guess lol? Who knows, it might even be simpliar than that, they may already have the tools to do it.

Yes. I wanted to see the animations on the new Legendary, but nothing showed in preview. Had to go off-site to see it (Dulfy, of course, lol).

Thus, it would be a great QoL feature. =)

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Yes. I wanted to see the animations on the new Legendary, but nothing showed in preview. Had to go off-site to see it (Dulfy, of course, lol).

Thus, it would be a great QoL feature. =)

Yes dulfy is a sort of workaround (not seen what the site has to offer yet) and it was mentioned to me in map chat about it. But do they have all the skins (including non gemstore) or just the gemstore ones as they are added?

I think the only videos are of Gem Store skins, and items that may need directions to obtain. Pretty sure there aren’t video of skins that just drop and stuff.

Sorry.

I thought that was the case, hence why I did go ahead and create this thread.

It would also be nice if we could have the toggle weapon drawn in the wardrobe.