Guild Wars 2

Kojiden.8405:

Himei.5379:

…and you’re buying it for the looks? I am pretty sure most are buying it for it’s uses, not the way it looks. Think you guys been “spoiled” by Anet having 1 cool animation so you expect another one. Buy it to use and stop complaining.

800 gems is a lot. For that much I would like for there to be a cool animation.

And no one is forcing you to buy it. Do we really need it? Not really, I use Karma Ori sickles all day. That’s basically unlimited uses too. The mining picks on the other hand would be good purchase since only 1 place sells it for karma and a event has to done for it.

Molten Pick = Genius
Infinite Sickle = Either a bug (since it is first release and they haven’t said anything about it this would make sense), or complete and utter laziness and an extremely poor reflection on the company as a whole.

My opinion and hope is that it is simply a bug and they made a slight code error and used the wrong animation and sound.

@Himei
I think you’ve missed the point, were talking more about it’s behaviour, i doubt there would be much less fuss if it had sickle animation instead of mining animation.

Hmm, possible bug here, yes.
If you imagine it with the sickle animation, it makes sense.

Why dont you wait for the thing to actually release before you lose your s***.

NTDK.4897:

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

They have like 1 person working on this and he did it during his lunch break.

flazerith.7253:

Why dont you wait for the thing to actually release before you lose your s***.

Technically it is released (it is in the game).
I do agree however, people should wait until it is actually official before behaving like children.

Seems like a rush job. I blame the Commerce team.

The amount of outrage over something as silly as a single animation is quite hilarious.

it’s useful except it’s annoying when you get locked into animation and can’t break out unless you dodge.

Honestly, people, why do you care so much about how it looks? It’s more of a practical item rather than a cosmetic one, which is why I bought it. I’m just happy about having space in my bags for more important things, and never again worrying about “ruined plant fibres”.

Breakdown so far………..

“I hate it, I hate it!! But I bought it anyway!”

I can’t tell if this topic is about the new Sickle or Windows Vista.

Captain Harlock.1568:

it’s useful except it’s annoying when you get locked into animation and can’t break out unless you dodge.

just moving breaks the animation no dodge required. Don’t really understand why anyone would wait around for the animation to end when you can keep moving on your circuit.

Desova.5821:

Honestly, people, why do you care so much about how it looks? It’s more of a practical item rather than a cosmetic one, which is why I bought it. I’m just happy about having space in my bags for more important things, and never again worrying about “ruined plant fibres”.

It is a matter of quality and a reflection of the devs., not to mention emersion. Sure, if it is functional that is all that matters to some (as it looks like is the case for you). For those people the same logic could be applied to armors and weapons. Make every weapon have the same animation whether it makes sense or not, as long as it still functions the same, who cares if a sword and a staff share the same animation, right? For that matter, why bother making different skins for gauntlets and boots, just put boots on everybody’s hands and arms as long as it functions properly who cares, right?

For people like me, I expect a sickle to function like a sickle in looks and functionality. The animation and sound is different for regular picks and sickles, so this shouldn’t be different.

That said, I’m still holding out that this is simply a bug. It is much too glaring an issue for it to be anything less.

Maybe the animation will be replaced when the patch hits live.

Seems fine to me. At first the sound it made was the same as when mining but now it’s more of a cracking or smashing kind of sound. The animation I do not care for but as to how long it takes to work it’s same length as a normal sickle the only change is you can’t see the bar progress so I guess this makes people think it takes longer.

Wow just wow. That’s amazingly lazy imo. But we’ll still see people try to defend it, or tell us it’s not important even tho it cost real life money to get. smh

tigirius.9014:

Wow just wow. That’s amazingly lazy imo. But we’ll still see people try to defend it, or tell us it’s not important even tho it cost real life money to get. smh

Or people simply understanding that mistakes can be made and this is probably one.

tigirius.9014:

Wow just wow. That’s amazingly lazy imo. But we’ll still see people try to defend it, or tell us it’s not important even tho it cost real life money to get. smh

Didn’t cost me “real” money, cost me 25 gold. :P

I wouldn’t call it a convenient item.

Thx Obama

My15Chars

Looks like an animation bug. Will still get it for convenience.

Judging by the animation & how the sickle is used like a mining pick, I would say its not intended for the animation. But without a dev to say this will be how it looks or not, its intended so far
(I’ll still buy 1 just to have on main anyways, ill just use it when no ones looking as I mine a plant)

I do find it strange and wonder if they will change it eventually. But the original sickle animation is very short in comparison I wonder if they felt they had to change it to make the new animation even worth it (bad idea if so). I like the water/flower animations but the pick sound and animation is very disappointing.

When I first used it I thought something was bugged with it, similar to what happens when sometimes you see other players using picks on trees and axes on mining nodes. Which seems very likely to me.

Sigh. Was looking forward to the next unlimited tool. What a disappointment.

In some instances, the animation is actually accurate. You would use a hoe to potentially harvest some things – carrots, potatoes, turnips, etc – rather than a sickle. Sickles are more for wheat and such. You wouldn’t even use a sickle for berries, unless you were harvesting the whole plant, which you aren’t So technically, none of the animations work 100%.

I still have to think it is a bug. Was hoping they’d fix with the patch release, but usually there are a few bugs fixed shortly after a patch so let’s hope this is the case. The water animation isn’t bad and I don’t mind it being used, just the swing of the sickle is silly as hell not to mention the sound.

To the point if it is supposed to be a swing like a hoe then I say two things…1) then it shouldn’t be called and look like a sickle, 2) you don’t swing a hoe with the same force as a pick axe.

Bug…only explanation. The devs. aren’t daft enough to have meant for that to be the real animation.

LMAO @ this copy/paste animation! LOL.

Hopefully they’ll change it. Thank god they can change it in a MMO and it’s no stuck like this.

A for adding it to the game, F for effort.

I like the idea of a whirlwind affect around the plant area. It makes more sense than hitting the ground so hard you get a water spout, lol. OMG, who the hell came up with this one? LOL, LOL…..lol…i can’t stop…

LOL!!

HeliaXDemoN.1208:

Thx Obama

My15Chars

ROFL! That never gets old.

Eyelusion.8205:

HeliaXDemoN.1208:

Thx Obama

My15Chars

ROFL! That never gets old.

yes it does

Well there is a new build right now… perhaps they fixed it.

Yargesh.4965:

Eyelusion.8205:

HeliaXDemoN.1208:

Thx Obama

My15Chars

ROFL! That never gets old.

yes it does

Haha! Mine was sarcastic. I should have ended with /sarcasm :p

it still has the pickaxe animations but they fixed the sound effect

ContraBit.9174:

it still has the pickaxe animations but they fixed the sound effect

but now it can’t be interrupted AND it takes two swings before you harvest an item. Once you press F you can’t move or cancel or do anything besides waiting for the animation to end.

at first i thought she was gonna swing it like golf club….cut the onion with a swing…i would buy that…please make it happen T___T

This might be rude of me towards others, but as someone who didn’t plan on buying it, I laughed my kitten off so hard when I saw dulfy’s video of her character mauling the poor plant into the ground. Plus the top comment being “DIE ONION, DIE!”

Haha this is lazyness at it’s finest, after seeing the animation on my newly bought sickle and the new instances, I really think they just got lazy and wanted to be “done” with this arc of the living story.

I’ve never seen a supposed “AAA” title release such unfinished “content/items”

So, if I understand this right, when you use this thing, you smash the ground with a giant scythe, which causes water to spurt up and makes the mining pick sound of metal hitting stone?

This is so bizarre that it actually sounds kinda cool, rofl!

These will probably be merged in the BLTC forums, but I already replied there lol. https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/bltc/Kitten-and-harvesting-sickle-animations/first#post2107134

This has got to be a bug.

It is obviously wrong. I’m sure this will be fixed. I’ve watched the animation in slow motion while pausing it and the sickle is not even in the hands of the avatar. Not to mention the metal sound.

Rather than complain about it, why not enjoy it while it lasts because it will not be here long. Its just another one of those bugs you will laugh about a year from now. Hey remember when….

I finally bought it, the sound has been fixed. And I don’t think the animation will change, it’s more like a garden rake than a sickle…

btw, I stored it in the bank… I don’t like this big eye looking at me…. it scares me….

I’m pretty sure you won’t have to “remember when” with the rate bugs and broken mechanics enter the game. You can just say….“Remember, like, 30 seconds ago…..”

Complain more, maybe they will actually take the time to have a tester use it before putting it in game.

“Hey Bob, you want me to test out that sickle before we put it in game?”

“kitten Steve, that would be a good idea, but we just don’t have the 5 seconds it would take you to harvest a plant and see the obvious flaws in it. We have to get over to the Live Stream so we can tell the forum goers we don’t have any time to respond to them on OUR OFFICIAL FORUMS”

“You’re right Bob, I don’t know what I was thinking. I’m sure the apologists will have our back anyway, lulz!”

What a lazy money grab. I’m glad they spent time re-skinning the molten ax instead of fixing the game.

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