Guild Wars 2

I hope this is just a late April fools joke.

This is really really great. Sometimes you get too much criticsm and it’s more often than not undeserved.

Is this for real?? ARE WE GETTING TROLLED??

Dear Anet, why must you take an already underwhelming game mode and make it even more kittening bad? Is this an actual joke?

I am not actually opposed to this… in theory. But I’m very, very confused… 5 DAYS FROM NOW? Like….

SURPRIZE YOO!!

I’m just really curious, what is this supposed to add to WvW? People will just fly away instead of fighting now, or sit on ballista’s. At least disable gliding while in combat.

this will be interesting, i look forward to the change, its only within your territory so should be entertaining

Serenity.6135:

I’m just really curious, what is this supposed to add to WvW? People will just fly away instead of fighting now, or sit on ballista’s. At least disable gliding while in combat.

It’s not like you can just up and fly away, lmfao. You still need something to glide off of…

please be a joke

Serenity.6135:

I’m just really curious, what is this supposed to add to WvW? People will just fly away instead of fighting now, or sit on ballista’s. At least disable gliding while in combat.

They already run away which is prob faster than gliding.

What does this mean for people you knock off cliffs with your own skills? Do they still fall to their deaths?

Shining One.1635:

What does this mean for people you knock off cliffs with your own skills? Do they still fall to their deaths?

When cced, you can’t enter the glider in PvE maps, not sure exactly how it’ll act in WvW.

Fay.2357:

Serenity.6135:

I’m just really curious, what is this supposed to add to WvW? People will just fly away instead of fighting now, or sit on ballista’s. At least disable gliding while in combat.

It’s not like you can just up and fly away, lmfao. You still need something to glide off of…

Any slight change in terrain, even a small slope lets you glide.

TheDevilWithinU.7092:

I hope this is just a late April fools joke.

^

jamesdolla.3954:

Serenity.6135:

I’m just really curious, what is this supposed to add to WvW? People will just fly away instead of fighting now, or sit on ballista’s. At least disable gliding while in combat.

They already run away which is prob faster than gliding.

And now entire groups will just fly away, and only ranged players will be able to hit them. How about we all just build ballista’s and wait for targets…idiotic waste of time.

McKenna Berdrow.2759:

It is important to keep in mind that this is a test for gliding in WvW. If we discover with this test that gliding is not appropriate for WvW, we will disable it.

Bolded for missing emphasis

What in the hell?

WHAT WILL HAPPEN IF YOU ARE IN COMBAT? Disable in combat gliding. Otherwise it means anyone can run away from a fight by just gliding away and literally makes HoT Pay-to-win. Seriously. It NEEDS to be disabled to deploy gliding while in combat. Seriously. This is why gliding in WvW has always been the stupidest idea.

You should work on these heavy skillags

McKenna Berdrow.2759:

Fay.2357:

Shining One.1635:

What does this mean for people you knock off cliffs with your own skills? Do they still fall to their deaths?

When cced, you can’t enter the glider in PvE maps, not sure exactly how it’ll act in WvW.

It will function the same in WvW. So if you are knocked back while in gliding you will fall to your death.

But how will you prevent people from abusing the gliding to escape off a cliff or to negate fall damage? In normal PVE you can open glider and save yourself when you were knocked off an ledge, which would be really bad for WvW.

I see it as a thing that does not belong to WvW. It makes escapes easier (not welcomed) fall damage survival easy (not welcome), and map travel faster (not welcome unless DesertBL, there is is Welcome, and I think allowing gliding just for desertBL only in certain areas would be a good compromise, but not more.).

Edit: And yeah as mentioned before, the servers still cannot handle the big fights (5+ years later) especially in EBG its skilllag fiesta, and the upcoming elite specs have even more AOE effects and more condi (which we know that creates extra load) and ETA on fixing that?

XxTronic.9310:

You should work on these heavy skillags

Yea seriously, lag, terrible class balance…are these not important? Why they waste time on this nonsense….

\o/ Thanks so much McKenna for this wonderful news.

Kitta.3657:

What in the hell?

WHAT WILL HAPPEN IF YOU ARE IN COMBAT? Disable in combat gliding. Otherwise it means anyone can run away from a fight by just gliding away and literally makes HoT Pay-to-win. Seriously. It NEEDS to be disabled to deploy gliding while in combat. Seriously. This is why gliding in WvW has always been the stupidest idea.

I don’t think you have the strongest grasp of how gliding works. If they try and run away by gliding off a cliff, just toss out a little cc and watch them fall to death, lmfao.

This sounds really cool. I think it sounds cool how gliding is limited to your territory, can’t wait to try it out.

Uhhhhhhhh

This gliding thing isn’t a good idea, I think.

If your zerg is about to get decisively wiped on, say, Garrison on borderlands, or North-East, North-West tower, on borderlands, you can just peace the heck out and go glide off a cliff. That’s a pretty bad deal. It’s functionally identical in terms of just wiping a zerg in terms of time, but without getting loot.

I think that this is a good idea if you don’t have this enabled while in combat. Otherwise, this is a -1 from me.

Personally I think it might be a good idea to not allow gliding if you’re in combat.
On a side note – desert borderlands, rather amusingly, usually has a k:d of less than 1 for all servers because of the fall damage and clumsy people, will be a shame to see the k:d on this border to be normal like the others haha

jumps off smc into glider

Bye vanilla and free account peeps!

bEST IDEa anet has had for wvw YET

This is….. FREAKING AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Pumped for this!

another “nobody asked for it or want it” after Golem week and other kitten

I’m excited to see how this is going to work, but I love that we’re minutes after the announcement and no one has seen it in action, yet we’re already firmly entrenched in our positions on the subject lol . . .

Ok but could you like revert condis back to only 25 stacks on player characters and keep it at unlimited on npcs…because like I don’t care about gliding, it can stay in pve

I mean you can already break into keeps with vault on thief, I’m not really seeing how gliding is not going to be broken.

Olli.9028:

another “nobody asked for it or want it” after Golem week and other kitten

Hey fool where are you getting your facts

Now I can jump off smc to save myself and scares the kitten off the duelers.

Horrible Idea. Rip all your veterans which are your player base. Working on useless stuff that nobody asked for, thanks anet.

Can people on the ground with ranged weapons target people in the air in gliders or will ballistas only be able to do this?

This will be great!

Fay.2357:

Kitta.3657:

What in the hell?

WHAT WILL HAPPEN IF YOU ARE IN COMBAT? Disable in combat gliding. Otherwise it means anyone can run away from a fight by just gliding away and literally makes HoT Pay-to-win. Seriously. It NEEDS to be disabled to deploy gliding while in combat. Seriously. This is why gliding in WvW has always been the stupidest idea.

I don’t think you have the strongest grasp of how gliding works. If they try and run away by gliding off a cliff, just toss out a little cc and watch them fall to death, lmfao.

For that you require to have ranged CC. So now you have to make sure you have ranged CC on you at all times which means you have to change your build AROUND gliding? That’s kitten.

Sweet, another change that nobody was asking for

GUFF.5692:

Can people on the ground with ranged weapons target people in the air in gliders or will ballistas only be able to do this?

Sounds like ballistas will be specifically good at it, but I’m looking forward to the skill shot treb videos knocking people out of the sky.

Do you know yet if gliding will effect server performence? As it’s really poor now

Kitta.3657:

What in the hell?

WHAT WILL HAPPEN IF YOU ARE IN COMBAT? Disable in combat gliding. Otherwise it means anyone can run away from a fight by just gliding away and literally makes HoT Pay-to-win. Seriously. It NEEDS to be disabled to deploy gliding while in combat. Seriously. This is why gliding in WvW has always been the stupidest idea.

This is such a silly statement. If your enemies decide to run away by gliding, YOU JUST GLIDE AFTER THEM !

At some point they have to land since it’s not true flight.

Crazy Branden.6951:

Olli.9028:

another “nobody asked for it or want it” after Golem week and other kitten

Hey fool where are you getting your facts

let´s see? from everybody in my guilds and friendlist? around 90 hardcore wvw only players

SgtOVERKILL.4701:

Horrible Idea. Rip all your veterans which are your player base. Working on useless stuff that nobody asked for, thanks anet.

Veteran checking in here…. you don’t speak for me! I love this idea!

Comprissent.3856:

Sweet, another change that nobody was asking for

LOL, not true! I asked for it \o/

Olli.9028:

Crazy Branden.6951:

Olli.9028:

another “nobody asked for it or want it” after Golem week and other kitten

Hey fool where are you getting your facts

let´s see? from everybody in my guilds and friendlist? around 90 hardcore wvw only players

You need more friends that are smart

Hexalot.8194:

Kitta.3657:

What in the hell?

WHAT WILL HAPPEN IF YOU ARE IN COMBAT? Disable in combat gliding. Otherwise it means anyone can run away from a fight by just gliding away and literally makes HoT Pay-to-win. Seriously. It NEEDS to be disabled to deploy gliding while in combat. Seriously. This is why gliding in WvW has always been the stupidest idea.

This is such a silly statement. If your enemies decide to run away by gliding, YOU JUST GLIDE AFTER THEM !

At some point they have to land since it’s not true flight.

Your statement is even more silly because you can only glide if you own the territory ;^)

“If you enter a territory that you do not own while gliding, you will be kicked from your glider.”

If anyone’s ever played Archeage, gliding in open world pvp was incredibly fun so I look forward to such a feature.

There were a lot of people who asked for this, just like there were alot of people who asked for a larger map and we got DBL. Players dont always know what they’d enjoy. Simple as that. We should probably test it before all the hate mail.