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Spider-web parachute or vine/rope-swing animation, a la Spider-Man or Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. (I still want brachiating! it’s too awesome a word to not use)

Crackling Lightning “wings”, similar to the Stormrider Rig or Mardu Runemark from Magic: the Gathering.

A long cape, similar to Superman or Super Mario… perhaps with a Guild emblem

i want to look like this when you bring gliding to wvw!

Gaile Gray.6029:

We’ve seen a lot of great suggestions come in lately about gliders. Whether you have ideas on a new design or a different skin suggestion, or even functionality feedback, we’d like to read your ideas.

Please feel free to post your thoughts about gliders in this thread, and I’ll include it in my next report to the devs.

(I should note that I’ve twice tried to merge some great suggestion threads into a core thread, but the process has failed. So please forgive me if your thread was lost, and do post again so we can share the ideas with the team.)

Thanks a bunch!

I’m sure at least some if not all of these were mentioned but here goes…

Turn old backpack skins into gliders

Some of the old backpacks would make good gliders, such as:

• Tempered Spinal Blades and the three colored variants. They could either unlock as four separate gliders, or you can have only the first ascended unlock a single glider and turn the glow and the paint on metal into dye channels
• Holographic Dragon Wings, Holographic Shatterer Wings, and Wings of the Sunless – they were the original wings, and having glider variants of them would be awesome and while still wings would be a nice change from the now too repetitive feathered wings.
• Butterfly Wings and Glittering Wings – like the dragon wings, while still wings (thus making sense for glider theme), would be a nice change from the feathered wings.
• Light of Dwayna – maybe not tied to the backpiece, but I think having our dear angelic goddess having a themed glider that is a mixture of feathered wings and a glow of light (think angelic wings + soul glider minus the drifting miniature human souls) would be cool.

Other ideas

• Guild Glider – a basic-looking glider which has the guild emblems on it.
• Cultural gliders – added to the cultural armor vendors, 3 gliders unlockable from in-game for gold per race, each theming to the related armors. (On an aside: I’d also love cultural aquabreathers and backpieces)
• Dungeon gliders – added to the dungeon vendor, a glider per dungeon sold for tokens, to bring a desire back into doing the dungeons. (On an aside: I’d also love aquabreathers and backpieces skins – no skinless green and rare backpieces boringness – themed to the eight dungeons), and Arah’s could be a patchwork of dried skin being turned into a glider
• Crafting gliders – like the crafting backpieces, gliders added to each crafting progression that is themed to the craft (probably just 1 per craft, not one per crafting tier per craft). For example, the CoF glider could be a glider made of fire, while HotW could be using the kodan-designs metal and ice (not realistic but hey neither are animal wings on plant people)
• Dragon Wing gliders – akin to the holographic/wing of the sunless bring back suggestion, why not one themed for a solid Shatterer, Claw of Jormag, and Shadow of the Dragon wings?
• WvW Legendary Backpiece + Glider – the PvP legendary backpiece and the fractal legendary backpiece both seem like they’ll unlock gliders when they become available, given their design. I think that WvW deserves similar treatment.

I’ve got a suggestion, stop putting up one week limited items like these Golden Wings; I would have bought these things out right provided they fell into a week that I get paid; you see the vast amount of employers in the USA are cheap and they look to save money by paying their employees biweekly. Your marketing team needs to take biweekly paychecks into consideration because these 7 day limited items are not just costing you money from people like me they also build a sense of resentment towards your company because now I feel cheated.

Since the item I’m talking about is a Glider technically I am on topic.

Wanted to add more onto the invisible glider, let us be able to see our backpacks too. That way it solve many requests, like people seeing their Molten Firestorm backpiece as gliding. If they wanted.

Oldirtbeard.9834:

I would have bought these things out right provided they fell into a week that I get paid; you see the vast amount of employers in the USA are cheap and they look to save money by paying their employees biweekly.

There are more GW2 players than just people that live in the USA.

Oldirtbeard.9834:

I’ve got a suggestion, stop putting up one week limited items like these Golden Wings; I would have bought these things out right provided they fell into a week that I get paid; you see the vast amount of employers in the USA are cheap and they look to save money by paying their employees biweekly. Your marketing team needs to take biweekly paychecks into consideration because these 7 day limited items are not just costing you money from people like me they also build a sense of resentment towards your company because now I feel cheated.

Since the item I’m talking about is a Glider technically I am on topic.

Yeah they’re putting out too many sales too often it’s kind of desperate. I can only see so many new outfits and gliders in a month before the idea of getting more seems like a joke.

Really, at the rate of turnout and take-away of some of this stuff I might as well not buy so much of this because you seem to be capable of turning out new things all the time. Why should I not just wait for new things later that will probably look cooler than what’s there now?

That’s my mentality now. I don’t want to buy gems weekly and I won’t. Forget that cool thing I might’ve bought if you spaced it out more. I’m not gonna. Sell me better, ANet.

Aerial “enemies”. When I say this, I don’t mean aerial combat. I mean a reason to use the existing gliding mechanics. So to use verdant brink as an example,

Day time – flock of birds. When you encounter these you are kicked out of your glider and it is locked for a few seconds. To escape, you need to outrun them for a bit using lean techniques.
Night time – swarm of bats. Same as above, but you can’t outrun them. You need to stealth past them.

Somebody wanted my designed wings on deviant***.* as a glider so badly, so i decided to bring it up here, tho this picture existed long before HoT.

MidnightX.6294:

Somebody wanted my designed wings on deviant***.* as a glider so badly, so i decided to bring it up here, tho this picture existed long before HoT.

This looks great!

I’d love to see an elemental type of dragon wing like fire or ice.

You know that loading “issue” with glider when you waypoint somewhere and the game loads just too slow and you deploy nothing and look like a superman?

A No-Glider Glider skin!

Especially cute with asura and charr.

As already mentioned several times in different threads, a glider skin for each ascended Spinal Blades varaint would be nice.

In regards to the gliding animation, there are different opinions on what it should look like. In my opinion it should be the animation shown by the assault knights before the fight begins (or something similar) – as seen at the beginning of the following video:

EDIT:
Actually, the “flapping” animation would only fit for slow gliding (when pressing “S”)… For normal gliding and fast gliding, other animations would be better. Like e.g.:
Normal gliding speed = Normal position of the blades + jetpack on
Fast gliding speed = Blades a bit folded + jetpack on

No idea if it is even possible to assign different glider animations to the different gliding modes…

That Guy.5704:

Mini.8495:

Ampa.2749:

I think Kyraler.8234 mentioned it first; a new Glider Crafting Discipline, like Armor, would make us work for it. We could build levels of gliders with crafting materials of some kind. Perhaps one kind of material results in feathers, and another in jet packs. We could find glider skins that we could put on our crafted gliders, but only if they ‘fit’ properly – can’t add a jet glider skin to a glider that is not crafted with jets.

This seems like it would fit the discipline Tailor. Of course, it depends on the type of glider you wanna make. My Destroyer Glider would probably have to be made in the Artificer place.
It’s not exactly easy to implement another crafting station like Scribing.. Scribing got there because it was guildhall-specific, but it still was probably a lot of work!!
With an aerodynamics crafting station, you’d have to find room in the Lion’s Arch plaza for it.
And besides, gliders aren’t something you really wear like backpacks. They’re just skins. :|

collections is a good place for this. Of course, I think alot of the collections should use their resulting items actually in the forge at least or something like that just for the sake of making sense rather than making items, selling them at a merchant and then the UI crapping out the final item lol, but yea…collections, even if it involves some crafted items from various professions.

THIS I think would be the easiest way for the devs to give us a hell lot of achievable gliders. Great Idea Guy…

Could work something like this: for a parrot-like, rainbow colored, feathered glider you would have to collect several feathers (maybe from Tengus in Tarir? ) and when you finally got them all (shouldn’t be to easy! ) you would need to buy or build a glider mount (could be added to every crafting profession level 500) which would be the basis to every glider you could build yourself and isn’t cheap at all.

Some of you may ask why I emphasize the part that it shouldn’t be too easy and cheap: 1) Anet is a company which has to get its income, so maybe they just put something for gliders (e.g. glider mount or special glider colors or effects which you could combine) in the gem-store to make some money, so we all can enjoy our beloved game in the long term.
2) When you get to a certain point of gaming experience whithin the game it will get harder to stay motivated as long as no new content is released. So it would really be nice if there would be some achievements/titles or in this case gliders with which you could show off what you have invested to earn this. I mean, one of the only truely amazing achievements so far is when I encounter someone who has a “Tarrktun Personal Delivery Portal” because you have to invest a freaking 25.000 globs of ectoplasm + 10.000 gold to get this thing.

a quagin holding you up with balloons.
something elite spec related. (like when you finish story on a class you unlock the elite glider) i’d love a spirt glint glider for my revenant.
or some sort of ninja related thing for daredevil (a giant kite or something)

A bunch of balloons holding you up. Could be from the back only or could be tied by ropes to your arms and legs. Or it could be birds, or large butterflies.

4 African Swallows, attached by rope……

HOLLY SIX!!!

Can there be an invisible glider that makes the character say something.

Examples:
-wiiiiiiiiiii
-frantic scream
-I’m flying… FLYING!!!
-sing SIA’s song: chandelieeeeer

Ven Zehn.6573:

4 African Swallows, attached by rope……

Only if the player is transformed into a coconut.

I would love to see cultural gliders.

Sylvari – something plantlike or leafy

Charr – obviously mechanical or steampunkish

Human – possibly a cape/glider – cloth or leather

Norn – glider made from a pelt or different types of pelts

Asura – Something magical and improbable looking but works

Im not sure if it has been suggested before but give me an Aetherised Jetpack Glider (with steam/smoke trails) and my money’s yours

I was playing WoW for a break, they have flying kites as mount, please add kite gliders.

Also make our magic carpets as gliders too

Message translated by Google, I hope it will be understandable.

Bind keys and options for hang gliding!

Hello,

We see a few more may be, that will react here to say that the SPACE key for one touch of hang gliding is a problem in some cases.

We discussed it and both options are out again. IN ADDITION to the current key

• The first and most simple:
  It would have the ability to assign a specific key with default SPACE and like any controls, the ability to have a second choice.

• The second and more pointed:
  It would have an option: “Enable / disable gliding” to make active or inactive. Possible to add an icon of “no flight area” if off when we have the mastery, etc …

Both options are visible on the screenshot!

If this option please click the thumb next to the message and put a comment to know.

Thank you

The new glider, Electromagnetic-Descender Glider, would be awesome if your back peice didn’t disapear when gliding. I would totally wanna see my Tempered Spinal blades be my glider with that effect, would totally buy it!

Hehe, looks like they took care of the Asuran style glider with the Electromagnetic Descender Glider! Now we need a leafy or vine one that sheds leaves or flowers as you glide.

Jerhek.3604:

The new glider, Electromagnetic-Descender Glider, would be awesome if your back peice didn’t disapear when gliding. I would totally wanna see my Tempered Spinal blades be my glider with that effect, would totally buy it!

Unless that could be handled on a per-glider basis (which I’m guessing they didn’t design the engine to support) that would cause far more problems than anything else. Most back items would clip horrendously with most gliders, not to mention stuff like having 2 sets of wings if you were using your wing glider and your backpack at the same time and such.

I want to fly in a giant bubble, like Glinda from The Wizard of Oz. The bubble could pop upon landing.

Kyraler.8234:

That Guy.5704:

Mini.8495:

Ampa.2749:

I think Kyraler.8234 mentioned it first; a new Glider Crafting Discipline, like Armor, would make us work for it. We could build levels of gliders with crafting materials of some kind. Perhaps one kind of material results in feathers, and another in jet packs. We could find glider skins that we could put on our crafted gliders, but only if they ‘fit’ properly – can’t add a jet glider skin to a glider that is not crafted with jets.

This seems like it would fit the discipline Tailor. Of course, it depends on the type of glider you wanna make. My Destroyer Glider would probably have to be made in the Artificer place.
It’s not exactly easy to implement another crafting station like Scribing.. Scribing got there because it was guildhall-specific, but it still was probably a lot of work!!
With an aerodynamics crafting station, you’d have to find room in the Lion’s Arch plaza for it.
And besides, gliders aren’t something you really wear like backpacks. They’re just skins. :|

collections is a good place for this. Of course, I think alot of the collections should use their resulting items actually in the forge at least or something like that just for the sake of making sense rather than making items, selling them at a merchant and then the UI crapping out the final item lol, but yea…collections, even if it involves some crafted items from various professions.

THIS I think would be the easiest way for the devs to give us a hell lot of achievable gliders. Great Idea Guy…

Could work something like this: for a parrot-like, rainbow colored, feathered glider you would have to collect several feathers (maybe from Tengus in Tarir? ) and when you finally got them all (shouldn’t be to easy! ) you would need to buy or build a glider mount (could be added to every crafting profession level 500) which would be the basis to every glider you could build yourself and isn’t cheap at all.

Some of you may ask why I emphasize the part that it shouldn’t be too easy and cheap: 1) Anet is a company which has to get its income, so maybe they just put something for gliders (e.g. glider mount or special glider colors or effects which you could combine) in the gem-store to make some money, so we all can enjoy our beloved game in the long term.
2) When you get to a certain point of gaming experience whithin the game it will get harder to stay motivated as long as no new content is released. So it would really be nice if there would be some achievements/titles or in this case gliders with which you could show off what you have invested to earn this. I mean, one of the only truely amazing achievements so far is when I encounter someone who has a “Tarrktun Personal Delivery Portal” because you have to invest a freaking 25.000 globs of ectoplasm + 10.000 gold to get this thing.

Stop encouraging stupid kitten collections. We have too many already.

labesamis.9261:

I want to fly in a giant bubble, like Glinda from The Wizard of Oz. The bubble could pop upon landing.

A friend said, oh like how the quaggans do xD. Quaggan Finisher.

http://youtu.be/VcvP82uc7jA

A glider backpack combo that lets me look like this since I’ll never get this skin.

A backpack skin for the electromagnetic.

Personally, most of the gliders should have a matching backpack skin even if it slightly raises the gem cost of the gliders.

labesamis.9261:

I want to fly in a giant bubble, like Glinda from The Wizard of Oz. The bubble could pop upon landing.

That could be cute for a Mesmer!

labesamis.9261:

I want to fly in a giant bubble, like Glinda from The Wizard of Oz. The bubble could pop upon landing.

Darn you! I just had this idea this morning! So I’ll +1 you instead.

It came to me as I was thinking of ways to revamp the new Electro glider and thought making it a sphere surrounding the person might look nifty.

At which point I realized a Glinda bubble would have a lot of potential thanks to ANet’s ability to add rainbow shimmers and ambient light reflections. They already have a Tempest water bubble to ride around on, so that animation could work either atop or within the bubble (unless they have to keep the gliding pose for airborne people, which might look odd inside a bubble but hey, it’ll still be an awesome glider).

How about gliders that transform the char, instead of being a glider skin.

Such as, changing you into a large hawk instead of giving you hawk wings. Or into a dragon. A butterfly. A balloon.

Or a coconut being carried by 2 African swallows. ^^

kolompi.1287:

…..
Stop encouraging stupid kitten collections. We have too many already.

Whoah – hold on there! We can never have too many collections. They’re not compulsory. Just ignore them and leave ’em to me.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

How about gliders that transform the char, instead of being a glider skin.

Such as, changing you into a large hawk instead of giving you hawk wings. Or into a dragon. A butterfly. A balloon.

Or a coconut being carried by 2 African swallows. ^^

Would that change to a European swallow in colder climates?

I think it would be cool if there was a glider that looked like dragon wings engulfed in orange flames like Volcanus.

Balloons. And when we land the strings get untied and they float away.

A general plea of mine:

PLEASE don’t introduce glider skins that can only be USED by a certain class/race/gender.
Skins that must be OBTAINED that way are perfectly fine but once the skin is unlocked it must be usable by any character just like it is now.

Why? Race or class specific gliders would likely look extremely specific to a certain theme. And countless players use those themes for other classes/races.

Simple red balloon “glider”. Probably would be nice as account (not character) birthday present.

Ziggi’s name remind me of a glider we need to have: a Tiger made of Lightning.

A rocking chair. Exclusive to the head start weekend GW2 originals crowd… ‘cause we’re old and cranky and need to chill out.

Fellfoot.8156:

A rocking chair. Exclusive to the head start weekend GW2 originals crowd… ‘cause we’re old and cranky and need to chill out.

Add that to the balloons request, get something like
http://cnet2.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/r/2009/05/08/ee4c6131-f8df-11e2-8c7c-d4ae52e62bcc/resize/570xauto/114db2edbcaa329587a44ff110e7641b/blog-Daniel_flying_in_armchair.JPG

Donari.5237:

Fellfoot.8156:

A rocking chair. Exclusive to the head start weekend GW2 originals crowd… ‘cause we’re old and cranky and need to chill out.

Add that to the balloons request, get something like
http://cnet2.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/r/2009/05/08/ee4c6131-f8df-11e2-8c7c-d4ae52e62bcc/resize/570xauto/114db2edbcaa329587a44ff110e7641b/blog-Daniel_flying_in_armchair.JPG

That… is awesome.

A jet scrander backpack for my Asura Engineer- based on the one from Mazinger Z that uses the base bladed backpack as the centre and then has riveted wings that telescope out of the sides when you begin gliding.

That and an awesome shout emote to go with it whenever you begin gliding with it or whenever you lean to gain forward speed.

Something along the lines of this;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CORicxRBiws

And:

http://mazingerzgreatkaiser.wikia.com/wiki/Mazinger_Z

Just scroll down to the section for the Jet Scrander.

Zaithan undead wing glider with bones showing and meat decay falls off it.
Mordremoth vines and leaves wing glider with poisonous cloud.
Primordius rocky fla1mes molten wings dropping lava as it flies.
Kralkatorrik amethist crystal wing glider with purple mist as it flies.
Jormag icy corrupted wings with frost cloud and ice sicles falling.
Bubbles since it will probably be based on tentacles, should be tentacle and water wings with torrential rain falling.

I would love a glider or two to be obtainable without the gemstore, through a drop or through tokens.

I also think it would be neat if these butterfly style back pieces could be used a gliders too or even make it so that the old molten backpack has a glider animation.

I haven’t read most of this thread, so forgive me if something similar has been suggested. When I said I’ve always wanted something “Asura techish” in other threads, my poorly drawn design below is what I had in mind. Hopefully it can spark some better designs.

I really want the ability to turn off my glider. I keep trying to make small jumps and then end up flying past them because the glider deployed when I did not want it to. If we could just have a toggle option for allowing gliders to deploy, that would be great.

dye channels on deluxe edition glow (the rest is supposed to look like the HoT logo)

Let us dye our gliders!!!!!!!