Guild Wars 2

The Asura mining animation makes them look painfully slow-motion. But that is just cosmetic. Not really a problem.

What IS a problem is that they take a FOURTH swing of their mining pick after all the ore has been collected – a full extra swing more than any of the other races. I find myself watching the progress bar and then moving my character when it reaches the end in order to break the animation and be on my way.

Please either adjust the animation speed so that it matches the speed of the progress bar, or chop the animation off after 3 swings. I must have wasted a couple full minutes of play time over the past few years when you add up all those extra pick swings. Minutes I will never get back.

I’m 99% sure there’s no actual difference in mining speeds for Asura compared to other races, based on a few basic times I just ran with my watch. All races seem to get their 3rd ore after roughly 5 seconds, and then have about a second and a half (a little less than that) of animation “wind-down”.

The only difference seems to be that Asura take a 4th swing at the ore during their animation wind-down while other races just stop and pull the pick back and place it back to their side during that time frame.

All races can cancel the animation after getting the 3rd ore to speed up the process. Its something I’ve become accustomed to, to the point where I do it pretty much any time I’m mining.

All that said, I’d totally be in favor of tweaking the Asura animation so that they only strike the ore 3 times. Not because it makes a difference in the amount of time spent (which I don’t think it does) but because it doesn’t make any sense.