Guild Wars 2

The animation that is. You slam it into the ground like a hoe, and water come out.

It’s not a sickle animation.

It’s like they got lazy and re-skin the molten pick.

video from dulfy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZslBb43ySw

It is a pick… it’s even making the noise and as far as I can tell from the video, it’s animation is longer than the cast time or it’s cast time is longer than a normal sickle – matching that of a pick (3 hits).

I will have to concur.

Its quite disappointing.

SAME ANIMATION AND SAME SOUND as a mining pick….

That is disappointing. I am gonna get it nevertheless.

Terrible, just terrible. Won’t be getting this until it it is changed to what it is supposed to be.

Im Mudbone.1437:

Terrible, just terrible. Won’t be getting this until it it is changed to what it is supposed to be.

ok, enjoy the wait.

That’s just wrong. You don’t hack at a precious plant like that. And you certainly shouldn’t be hearing the sound of METAL.

I really hope they don’t use the same animation for the unlimited axe…. That really wouldn’t work

Sad… I was looking forward to this – Was so excited about what the animation could be…

Im Mudbone.1437:

Terrible, just terrible. Won’t be getting this until it it is changed to what it is supposed to be.

Hehe, oh man. By the time that happens It’ll most likely be out of the Gem store and you would’ve waited for nothing. BUT HEY…no pressure.

Besides I always thought it was a convenient item. Like never having to buy another tool for your Plant mutilation needs.

ADDED: Outta curiosity what kind of animation what you players here expecting? not meaning to pry or judge ,but I’m rather interested.

The animation is just so disappointing.

I hope you guys at Anet have plans to change it. Or no soup for you!

I would prefer the normal sickle animation with the water spout.

Anet, that’s just poor!
Who’s managing? Who’s making these poor quality decisions!?
More! Effort! Required!
Suxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Yargesh.4965:

Im Mudbone.1437:

Terrible, just terrible. Won’t be getting this until it it is changed to what it is supposed to be.

ok, enjoy the wait.

I just won’t get one, no loss to me.

Lets hope this was unintentional and keep fingers crossed for a fix soon. Would really like another animation for this.

NTDK.4897:

You slam it into the ground like a hoe

i’m not letting you anywhere near my garden if you hoe like that

also not letting arenanet near my garden if they pickaxe my plants

crazy animation lol

Torqueblue.1945:

Im Mudbone.1437:

Terrible, just terrible. Won’t be getting this until it it is changed to what it is supposed to be.

Hehe, oh man. By the time that happens It’ll most likely be out of the Gem store and you would’ve waited for nothing. BUT HEY…no pressure.

Besides I always thought it was a convenient item. Like never having to buy another tool for your Plant mutilation needs.

ADDED: Outta curiosity what kind of animation what you players here expecting? not meaning to pry or judge ,but I’m rather interested.

NP, I just won’t get one, no loss to me.

I’m worried by the 300% longer animation. Go to a potato farm and harvest for 5 minutes? I dunno.

Pretty awful… hope they change it. The water fountain is nice and fits the Southsun theme, but the hacking makes no sense.

Buttercup.5871:

I’m worried by the 300% longer animation. Go to a potato farm and harvest for 5 minutes? I dunno.

Play Plants Vs Zombies or watch a video of it. You Will Understand the need to extra careful with potatoes. Ever wonder why nobody wants the hot potato? Cause it’s really really hot when you take it out of the microwave.

1. Stab plants with small scythe.
2. Make magic water trickle out of the ground.
3. Get plants.
4. ??
5. PROFIT.

animation and sound are all wrong, that said I got one because of convenience of coure and not because of cost effectiveness. Harvesting tools clutter up my bank/bags. Also you can move to interrupt yourself after first strike so you don’t sit through the extra animation and save yourself time.

I could just be a simple error in what the water fountain animation is tied to. Inserted the mining code instead of the plant harvest code. I really am not concerned either way since it is 100% convenience and nothing else.

In future, please remember that this is Anet you are dealing with. They are notorious for recycling and reusing items. I don’t know if any of you remember the huge kitten storm that occurred when eye of the north was released when all the “new” armors were really just re-skinned old ones.

I’ll probably get one but.. really, it just looks SO WRONG.

Pure Heart.1456:

Anet, that’s just poor!
Who’s managing? Who’s making these poor quality decisions!?
More! Effort! Required!
Suxxxxxxxxxxxxx

-whispers- Nexon

The effect (water spout and growing vines/flowers) seems to be smaller than it should. If it was like twice as big I don’t think it would be disappointing. And like others have said, the mining pick animation/sounds is odd, but if you get multiple uses from the node then each swing is another gather like what happens with a mining pick.

99% sure they screwed up an animation hook and will fix it next patch.

The easiest explanation is that whoever hooked this up copied the code for the MA pick over and changed the particle target but forgot to change the pick harvesting animations and sounds as well.

It’s an innocent mistake that takes less than a minute to fix. Enjoy assaulting those veggies while you can.

It would look better if it was like the logging animation except at an angle…. or, you know, like swinging a scythe.

Torqueblue.1945:

Outta curiosity what kind of animation what you players here expecting? not meaning to pry or judge ,but I’m rather interested.

Something better. Idk maybe a giant crab arm that cuts through plants, or spawn some type of asuran robot gatherer device, or pour some miricle grow on the plant and kick it over.

Mada.5319:

In future, please remember that this is Anet you are dealing with. They are notorious for recycling and reusing items. I don’t know if any of you remember the huge kitten storm that occurred when eye of the north was released when all the “new” armors were really just re-skinned old ones.

Couldn’t care less about reskinning and resuse for that. The problem here is that harvesting takes longer per plant unless you manually cancel for each harvest. This is a usability problem.

The animation sucks, its just lazy…

Using the sickle is going to take longer than using a normal sickle and personally would annoy me…

So I am not buying the unlimited sickle…

Anyone, who buys it is saying, ‘serve me up any kind of rubbish and I will meekly buy it’…

as Ensign already mentioned, it is possible that the animation is just not in the game client yet and will arrive with the patch today

Expectation is pretty straight forward: a stylish shiny sickle, flying around green leaves/berries/pieces and some golden/shiny or any other animation that makes the harvesting movement more visible.

I like the water and vines effect quite a bit, it’s well done and meshes well with a sickle.

It just, you know, needs to be used like a sickle, not a mining pick, and not make mining pick noises.

Buying it is just gonna make Anet think it’s okay for them to pull this type of crap, but whatever, go ahead.

ArenaNet spend time to make new gemstore item = People whine about them focusing on the wrong stuff

ArenaNet does a shortcut and release a slightly reskinned item with other uses = People whine about them not focusing enough on the gem-store items.

Quite funny observation.

I’m pretty disappointed in Anet over this. It’s one thing to sell a sickle for $10. It’s another thing to skimp in the animation for the sickle you’re selling for ten dollars.

Thumbs down, Anet.

Seriously?

I was upset because I don’t have gold to buy it when it come out but now I’m glad.

Really Anet, a little respect for your customers would be nice (yes, many will buy it with in-game money but still, a lot of them will use real money so don’t be that cheap).

Lel, they just used the pick axe animation. That’s pretty bad. I hope it gets changed but I’ll probably still get it nonetheless.

Edit: Maybe I’ll reserve judgement for after the patch comes out and see if it changed.

Indeed, people need to keep in mind that the sickle might have sneaked in early, and was actually supposed to come with tonights patch, so it might not be “ready” yet.

Ye i dont like these one.

Wow, this is super lazy of ANet.

Is it their goal to not take my money?

Whelp,

I guess I’ll be giving this one to my Charr:

“GET THAT SICKLE OUTTA MY FACE!
This is how you “pick” a plant!" *Dink!* *Diiiiinnnng!* *Thunk!*
Yeeeeaahhhh. That’s how Iron Legion does it.
Oh, and that isn’t water, cub. Those are tears!"

-Vawn

Crazylegsmurphy.6430:

Wow, this is super lazy of ANet.

Is it their goal to not take my money?

Is people really only buying this unlimited items for the looks?
I was under the impression that people bought it for the convenience of never having to buy picks/sickles again

I am outraged!…… that people would even purchase these in the first place. Oh, people wanted these for the animations? Sorry lol.

lordkrall.7241:

Crazylegsmurphy.6430:

Wow, this is super lazy of ANet.

Is it their goal to not take my money?

Is people really only buying this unlimited items for the looks?
I was under the impression that people bought it for the convenience of never having to buy picks/sickles again

I’m buying it for the convenience, but lazy is lazy. Why make us pay for something so obviously immersion breaking?

I only bought the alliance unlimited mining pick for the cool animation…yes…

This unlimited sickle ISN’T COVENIENT in its present state, it takes 2 secs longer to harvest per use…

1000 uses later you have wasted half an hour gaming time…

Lets hope its a bug and gets a better animation/swing time in the patch update…

Vayne.8563:

I’m buying it for the convenience, but lazy is lazy. Why make us pay for something so obviously immersion breaking?

I agree that the animation/sound is pretty lazy/rehashed. I just cringe and sigh when people say immersion breaking.

Meglobob.8620:

This unlimited sickle ISN’T COVENIENT in its present state, it takes 2 secs longer to harvest per use…

Missed that part. That would be the biggest grievance.

Vayne.8563:

I’m buying it for the convenience, but lazy is lazy. Why make us pay for something so obviously immersion breaking?

Why assume it is ready? It wouldn’t be the first time unfinished stuff turned up in the store.

Tamaki Revolution.3548:

Vayne.8563:

I’m buying it for the convenience, but lazy is lazy. Why make us pay for something so obviously immersion breaking?

I agree that the animation/sound is pretty lazy/rehashed. I just cringe and sigh when people say immersion breaking.

Why? I’m not saying everything in a fantasy game should be realistic but there’s a difference between realistic and plausible. In the real world, I used to edit professionally and it’s one of the hardest things to teach new writers.

You can literally get away with anything in a fantasy novel (or game). What you can’t do is set up a set of rules and change them in the middle, without sufficient reason. If everyone is flying around in the world and it’s been that way since chapter one, you can’t just stop people from flying without saying why.

We’ve had harvesting in this game since day one and we use a sickle, not a pick. A sickle is what was just bought. Why would I want a sickle that acts and looks like a pick. It definitely pulls me out of the game.