Guild Wars 2

from : https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/winter-quarterly-update-preview-on-guild-chat-a-summary/

Gliding isn’t available in Player vs. Player or World vs. World right now,

So, is the “right now” implying it will be implemented one day, sooner or later, and that they are working on it?

http://www.twitch.tv/guildwars2/v/36989122 – 27 minutes and 8 seconds.

Gliding has been looked at but there are more important things to fix in WvW right now.

Maybe after that you can get all the tactical advantage you want from just 29.99!

Glider chases in Aion were awesome, DBL seems custom made to relive that experience.

Yet it’s missing…

I said before, the ‘new’ Deserted BL feels more like a pve map that was spare and thrown at wvw, and gliding was a part of that design. Hence why it looks like it does.

Considering it takes much fanfare and time for them to make miniscule changes, don’t hold your breath.

@op – my take from that guild chat… It is not being worked on because there are more important things to resolve in wvw. Anet is open to revisit at a later date – just not any time soon.

They’ve got about 5 months to wow people before they get some srs competition…
Seems a great place to stand out a bit to me.

I don’t remember being shot out of the sky in Aion because I got hit while gliding. I can see myself getting smacked for 5k by hammer auto attack from some random Rev running by and falling to my death into a dusty canyon….unless Anet is going to change how gliding works just for WvWvW (haa!).

Getting shot down seems like reasonable counterplay… And there’s the glider stealth.. Only place I’ve got to use it is against Mordewhatever

I’ve died way more often to falling that to enemy players* in the desert borderlands. So +1 to gliding in WvW.

*probably because I’ve never seen an enemy player in the desert borderlands.

With druids and dragonhunters already flying into keeps, who needs gliding?

Possibly, in 3 or 4 years, when they have totally kittened everything up, all the WvW players have got totally sick, left and nobody is in WvW any more…

Actually, as pointed out earlier, the new desert borderlands looks custom made for gliding, all you need is to stop people gliding into fortifications they don’t own. That could be achieved with infinite height screens, as in spawn and garrison, that open at sections of damageable wall. Screens would be one way, out, for attackers. Owners could be allowed to fly in too.

Theres gonna be issues where people can glide into towers,i think thats the main reason for them not implementing it yet.

Caedmon.6798:

Theres gonna be issues where people can glide into towers,i think thats the main reason for them not implementing it yet.

They’ve already created a device to knock players from the air, they’re called “no fly zones”.

Not unless they completely redesign the borderlands again. Before the “can’t activate skills in the air” change, you could get into Air Keep on your druid with no siege at all, using GS jump and druid staff 3. All the way to the inner boss. If you could use your glider, what would the point of siege be? Please don’t ask for invisible walls- that would just muck up existing siege and create more problems than it would solve, like blocking treb, cata and balista projectiles.

Caedmon.6798:

Theres gonna be issues where people can glide into towers,i think thats the main reason for them not implementing it yet.

One option: player purchased air defense artillery siege. This would also be fun to setup below cliffs and watch people fall to their deaths.

Another option: npcs that can shoot you out of the air in strategic locations…. I think some npcs can already do this in the xpac, no?