Guild Wars 2

let talk about Gliders now.

1)How would you like to see this done?

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2)What’s some model ideas for gliders?

(1)

*Gliders as part of World Meta boss battles-
How cool would it be if we needed to glide to different platforms during a boss fight to defeat the boss?

*Glider siege airborne Trojan Horse –
What if commanders could make a large air glider that holds multiple people and glide behind defenses and such or toss bombs down from the sky while gliding their team around. Could be costly to make and use a new WvW resource to make it, that need to be collected from the map or something.

(2)

*Magic Carpet as Glider skin-
The flying carpet from gem store would be a cool glider model to use. Pretend we Aladdin or something. Lol.
(A Whole New World)

*Flying Mini Airship Skin-
How about a mini version of those Airships we see in EoTM Green base, that glides us around. That could be pretty immersive honestly.

*Dragon Glider Skin-
How cool if our glider look like a dragon that flaps their wings as an animation while gliding with our character mounted on back. That could be a cool skin.

*Flying Animal/Creature Skin-
Similar to dragon suggestion above, but with other creatures with wings, such as Griffins.

*Magic Broom Glider Skin-
From the gem store, what if the broom could be a glider skin. That would also be cool.

*Wax Arm Wings Skin-
This model could be simply our character holding out their arms with large wings attached to the arms that we glide around with.

The magic carpet idea is great.

i think the magic carpet as glider thing would just result in a lot of players splatting face first and wondering why their carpet doesn’t always work.

3.) Implementing a vast array of glider skins we can earn for playing the expansion that we paid for.

I would hate to see like 3 skins to earn and then a few skins on the gem shop a week after release of the x-pac. Same goes for armor and weapons.

if magic carpet is a glider skin, I hope they either fix the animation for charr, or just full out “screw you charr players” that arm is broken. and to me it’s hilarious.

They definitely will sell glider skins in gem store similar to mail carriers.

Now a little thought from me. They put in Masteries to learn to fly a glider. We already have swiming in the game as supposed all characters know to swim by their nature.
So, flying is not a native skill of the characters, it must be learned. My prediction is in a future expasion they will add mounts too with a mastery for learing to ride.

I doubt they will be available in WvW as it would break the game completely.

Also wouldnt surprise me in the slightest if its a quick mode of transportation from one fixed point to another in PvE. If they are like in Archeage, it would break all existing PvE maps as well. Only available on the new map perhaps? Which means that skins are pretty pointless haha.

Dawdler.8521:

I doubt they will be available in WvW as it would break the game completely.

Also wouldnt surprise me in the slightest if its a quick mode of transportation from one fixed point to another in PvE. If they are like in Archeage, it would break all existing PvE maps as well. Only available on the new map perhaps? Which means that skins are pretty pointless haha.

Colin confirmed in an interview that it will ONLY be on the new maps.
He didn’t mention WvW though. My guess is that it will only be available on the new WvW map also.

Dawdler.8521:

I doubt they will be available in WvW as it would break the game completely.

Also wouldnt surprise me in the slightest if its a quick mode of transportation from one fixed point to another in PvE. If they are like in Archeage, it would break all existing PvE maps as well. Only available on the new map perhaps? Which means that skins are pretty pointless haha.

yeah on currently existing WvW maps gliders should not be available to use for the same reason that teleporting skills have so limited reach and requires full line of sight to use….. – whats the point of wall when everyone of enemy army can just ignore it and teleport/glide over/whatever else as if they were not there at all…

inb4 gemstore angelwing/devilwing glider skin

Rem.9627:

inb4 gemstore angelwing/devilwing glider skin

outb4 flappy Quaggan glider skin.

I believe Colin said gliders are pve only, so no wvw. Not entirely sure about that though.

Flying Golems, warriors, and rangers in wvw are 2 years ahead of this expansion. ssssh….