Guild Wars 2

So I just finished my personal story, the culmination of all the events that lead up to this point, having avoided spoilers like the plague so I could experience what happens for myself… Only to find myself auditing my own story during its finale.

See, me and two friends were taking turns leading each mission and as luck would have it I lead the finale. The story was doing great, we were having fun, I couldn’t figure out how to ride an updraft without gliding. Yeah, I was stuck in a box for the remainder of the finale, great mechanic for raids, not so great for enjoying a story with friends, especially one you can’t quit because you’d be forcing everyone else to restart too.

Was I put in a box because I screwed up? No. I was put in a box and forced to destroy something I’d been looking forward to and preparing for since January because when told to go airborne in GW2, I try to find a way to trigger gliding. There is swirly rising energy when you’re told to ascend, if you assume they’re updrafts attempt to jump into them to glide, your glider won’t deploy because you’re on flat ground, then you’ll look around for bouncy mushrooms or a ledge to get the height you need. Then you’ll look off the edge of the arena for updrafts. Then you’ll die when your party tells you you should’ve tried to updraft on the leyline looking things when you don’t have leyline gliding.

Even when you know what to do, latency can making gliding impossible and the leyline looking updrafts might just decide to not launch you. So yeah, I got jipped out of a story because gliding still needs some serious QA, it’s less reliable than jumping in Dark Souls.

Don’t jump on them, walk into them. Hold down space (or w/e your jump/glide key is) to deploy your glider as soon as possible.

It’s really counter intuitive compared to how you normally glide/use jumps.