Guild Wars 2

I´m sure most people out there have some complaints about how certain races or race/class combinations actually use their weapons. Talking about attack animations I´ll give an example:

Norn male warriors/revenants with swords (mainhand mostly) is probably the wimpiest I can think of. It looks like my big kitten norn is shooing away flies.

The question is, what attack or skill animation on certain races do you hate?

I feel like a more useful question here might be: what is the goal of this thread?

It’s understandable that you don’t like some of the animations, and that’s fine, but are you looking to use popular opinion to encourage change through some sort of poll?

If so, I’d encourage you to make an actual poll, get some at least semi-representative numbers (eg: a few thousand responses, at least), and then report back.

All this will really do is get people either listing their pet dislikes, or arguing about what “personal taste” is. (eg: I’m sure some folks think those male norn animations you loath are just peachy, and would be sad if they changed. neither of you are wrong, just like different things, yo.)

I would like them to fix some of the revenant animation loop blending. On asura and charr some of the animations with staff look REALLY bad when strafing. But I won’t hold my breath… animation in general seems to be expensive and Anet have almost never spent time revisiting animations that are already in the game. If anything they just take the animation out when it becomes a problem (see human female idle). I think they employ like 2 or 3 animators in a company of 300, and those animators are probably focused entirely on the expansion.

I would LOVE it, if Female Norns, Humans, and Sylvari EACH had their OWN set of attack, and other animations.

Totally agree, this would’ve been awesome !

I give you all … a poll to fill out!

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe24uc4mbpW5Ecby8LtQ2vBXxJJOLYXk8D6bTZ-x-x3TA_8og/viewform

regardless of animations all asura can burn…