Guild Wars 2

I was thinking… if the gliders are tied to the mastery system, which is tied to the expansion, and they’re supposed to be used in the new areas due to the insane verticality, doesn’t it risk contradicting the concept of keeping all areas useful to an extent?

Because, if the gliders can only be used in the expansion area, then it’s a limitation, it’s a big feature limited to parts of the game.
Instead, if the gliders could then be used anywhere, all jumping puzzles would become free loot chests.

I mean, maybe there’s some special system that triggers the gliders, but then wouldn’t you be tied to it anyway?
Maybe my thought is completely wrong to begin with, that’s what happens when you have a headache…i don’t know…
Either way, the expansion is sitting comfortably inside my invisible shopping cart, does the hype train ever stop ? <3

A fair few jumping puzzles are already located in places where it wouldn’t make much sense to be able to use gliders, such as inside small-ish caves. There are also many jumping puzzles where I’m not convinced that a glider would trivialise things as badly as you suggest (assuming that these are anything like gliders in ArcheAge).

Did he not state in the speech that you would gain and use mastery points / skills inside the expansion land? I may have missed the bit where he said that gliders and HOT skills would be used in the basic game land but I’m fairly sure he didnt…

As far as I recall every jumping puzzle requires you to go upwards, a glider just helps you glide downwards. I guess updrafts to keep you aloft will be limited to the new areas of the expansion.

tekfan.3179:

As far as I recall every jumping puzzle requires you to go upwards, a glider just helps you glide downwards. I guess updrafts to keep you aloft will be limited to the new areas of the expansion.

What he said. Hanggliding is not flying. It is controlled falling. I don’t think we should worry too much about exploits. They would obviously not be usable in PvP or W3 because duh.