Guild Wars 2

Wut? Also, where? Is this thing going to be in WvW, or just PvE, or just a few spots in PvE?

sounds like just in the jungle. But either way it is not flight, it is just falling with style.

Based on what they said, the gliders look very specific to the new PvE areas, much as the experimental vertical abilities were limited to the FotFW and dry top maps.

There’s a precedent to this. In WoW when they first introduced flying mounts it was restricted to the expansion zone. It wasn’t until a few expansions later that they rebuilt the entire world to make them work everywhere.

Now it might of course be different from that- if they designed the rest of the world with gliding in mind from the beginning, they could roll it out everywhere. But that doesn’t seem likely.

I dunno, it sounds like you have more and more control over where you end up as you invest more points into it.

ZudetGambeous.9573:

sounds like just in the jungle. But either way it is not flight, it is just falling with style.

Well, not full flight- but they did say that as you progress you will learn to use updrafts. So it seems like it’s basically a mechanic more to gain access to progressive content rather than to increase overall movement freedom.

I have a sinking feeling it will be strictly used in the jungle. Because the rest of the game maps you would see seriously broken map edges. It would be nice if at least some progression would be used everywhere though. Getting only new powers in one area is kind of dumb.

I’m OK with this as long as it is an option and not a requirement.

Keene.5394:

I’m OK with this as long as it is an option and not a requirement.

With the new verticality that they promised you’d probably need it.

gliders in WvW anyone?

srsly if it could work there it would totaly break the system :P

I’m not too happy with this. Doesn’t fit the lore at all, and it just looks like they’re trying to be Aion.

I think it’ll just be a mechanic to be used only in the jungle.

Essentially… Mounts… In this case you just mount… Well, you know… Yourself.

CureForLiving.5360:

Keene.5394:

I’m OK with this as long as it is an option and not a requirement.

With the new verticality that they promised you’d probably need it.

Yeah, I’d say it’s almost 100% guaranteed to be a requirement, as much as using the elemental forces is to get around the FotFW or Dry Top.

Lord Trejgon.2809:

gliders in WvW anyone?

srsly if it could work there it would totaly break the system :P

Was my first reaction to their announcement, but they stated they will be unique to the new PvE maps.