Guild Wars 2

Having played a bit in the new BL maps and having tried gliding in HoT I can see how gliding would not only be fun but useful in the new WvW borderlands. So how about this for an idea:

Introduce gliding.
Make gliders targetable (I think they are already).
Damage taken while gliding would reduce the glider duration bar.

In this way people who have HoT can glide around and make use of the new game mechanic (if you have HoT you will have already experienced the “oh kitten!” moment in Tyria or WvW where you jump off something and hit space to glide… having forgotten where you are).

People who don’t have HoT won’t be able to glide, BUT they will be able to enjoy shooting down people who are gliding and watching them plummet to a certain death is likely to a satisfying reward in itself… (“Think you’re better than me because you bought the expac? How’d you like that gravity then!”)

Perhaps it would even work out fairly balanced.

Before you complain about whole zergs flying into objectives think of the effect of a balista or arrow cart (or engi mortar, or meteor shower, or ranger barrage, or….) on the incoming gliders. Would you risk it?
How many objectives would you be able to get high enough above to make gliding in a viable strategy?
Would gliding players simply be easy kills for roamers?

One big problem I foresee is if AoE effects don’t act in 3D and coding this would be too difficult to implement. But if we could have it – it would be cool…

+1

This could make for very interesting gameplay.

I imagine using a ballista to shoot at gliding players could be incredibly fun, or new AOE aerial skills on existing siege weapons like the catapult/trebuchet. Alternatively, new siege weapons designed specifically for that purpose would be nice too.

To prevent zergs from simply gliding into towers/keeps, perhaps they could introduce a new upgrade to towers/keeps that constructs auto-firing turrets to shoot down incoming enemies? This would essentially create no-fly zones and incentivise people to guard objectives until the upgrade is complete.

I think would be fun to have em in WvW, or least have 1 BL set to it so you can..

Since non HoT owners can still WvW if you add gliders in , would give ppl with HoT and advantage over non hot users.

Think for aerial combat / air ground targeting would have to be something like how Under water combat is..

Haha new Air Wpns!! Like underwater wpns but for usage in air haha

Thinking about the glider usage in ArcheAge I’d love to see them in fights.

Oh great, now hordes of glider pilots can jump over fort walls and cap without having to break in…

Needs a lot of work before this could be done, if ever.

Any damage while gliding should make you fall. I dont want to be chasing whole zergs of people who just float away. I do want to aoe a whole zerg of people who tried to run away and watch them fall to thier death.

Serious.7083:

Oh great, now hordes of glider pilots can jump over fort walls and cap without having to break in…

Needs a lot of work before this could be done, if ever.

Agreed. WvW is not ready for it, it could be cool but the way WvW is now it will not work.

I actually love this idea in WvW … but haven’t fully puzzled out if it could be abused or not .. certainly there needs to be a dome/barrier as a player gets near an objective … can you think of any other ways?

Jayne.9251:

I actually love this idea in WvW … but haven’t fully puzzled out if it could be abused or not .. certainly there needs to be a dome/barrier as a player gets near an objective … can you think of any other ways?

To be far they did make the camera adjustable to the zoom hack distance so everyone could do it. So they might as well let everyone fly since cheaters are doing it now!

I can wait for the first time a commander yells, Someone get on those anti aircraft guns!!!

Wryscher.1432:

Jayne.9251:

I actually love this idea in WvW … but haven’t fully puzzled out if it could be abused or not .. certainly there needs to be a dome/barrier as a player gets near an objective … can you think of any other ways?

To be far they did make the camera adjustable to the zoom hack distance so everyone could do it. So they might as well let everyone fly since cheaters are doing it now!

I can wait for the first time a commander yells, Someone get on those anti aircraft guns!!!

Don’t get me started on the fov … thankfully they took some steps to address that.

I liked your idea of watching them drop like a lead balloon tho

Vote 4 Portal Gun! jk

They could just let Asuras invent a new technique of an invisible force field around the structure that can not be passed by living creatures. Simple.