Guild Wars 2

I really love this hall and greatly appreciate the inclusion of the jump pads. A huge part of the appeal of this hall is the gliding. However the pads fall a tad short of being fully beneficial for this hall with their current functioning.

Suggestions:
The following changes to jump pads and their associated updrafts would make them rock by making them much more useful and reducing any tediousness or extra steps in getting around this amazing guild hall.

1. Have them on by default.
We shouldn’t have to land, activate, jump, open our glider (if you can even get that to happen right on the 1st jump) and take off again. That’s 4 extra steps. This becomes quite tedious when traversing a long distance and adds unneeded time and complexity to gliding around. Less fun too!

It would be more efficient, easier and greatly appreciated if these were just on by default. We could get around without having to stop and come up with fun circuits around the hall — for guild games or contests or what have you. Imagine the aerial adventures we could have!!

2. Make them work for guild members who don’t have Updraft
At least during the expedition where having updraft made a huge difference in getting around. But in general as well.

3. Fix the “jump” when starting at the pad
I had great difficulty getting my glider open and back into the updraft before hitting the ground again for two reasons. (1) The jump needs to be a bit higher — extra elevation would help immensely! (2) The animation is awkward. I roll around in the air, often out of the updraft, and It just doesn’t feel precise or clean or like much of a jump. I don’t even understand why I have to roll around in the air or out of the draft. It would be ideal if the pad just shot me up, inside the draft, in a vertical/falling animation position so I can immediately open my glider.

If having the pad drafts on by default is not an option, then that greatly escalates the need for a smoother easier and higher jump execution!

4. Provide more/bigger updrafts near the entrance
So that we can fly a bit farther from there, like over to the tavern or center area or beyond. At least enough to reach the next draft/pad. Would be great for folks who are visiting or newly arriving that don’t have the waypoints!

Thanks for listening!!

If there is some sort of limitation as to why they can’t be on by default, at least have a button that turns them on and keeps them on.

If a button is to weird like turning a fan on or off; have an accurately lore based NPC doing something with the winds.

Also Updrafts around the back~

Btw I dunno if any of this is upgrades if it is then that’s cool too.

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I am really a bit annoyed that I have to turn them on like every second if I want to move in our guild hall. The points mentioned by the original poster here seem really nice to have but the most important one is “keep the pads enabled”!
Thank you

I completely agree.
All was well during the instance to claim the Guild Hall, and then suddenly all the pads became “disabled” once captured.
Honestly, if not for this thread, I thought that the jump pads had to be upgraded or something.
Please do something, it would be more than just QOL.
Thank you.

I agree on the on/off issue. It seems silly that there is not at least an option to keep them on permanently.