Guild Wars 2

Elementalist has always enjoyed a varied array of animations on each of its weapon sets and I’ve always liked that about the profession. Lately, I’ve warmed to the Tempest’s warhorn skills but I am pretty disappointed in the animations.

For every one of the Tempest’s warhorn skills the animation is the same. Blow warhorn. In the exact same way, every time. That’s 8 new skills with the same animation.

The mechanics, thematics and special effects for many of the warhorn skills themselves don’t necessarily call on the elementalist to actually blow on the horn. I think it would be a nice QoL change to strive for a more versatile selection of animations on these skills.

Chance of this happenening: approaching zero.

This is probably the main reason they switched to warhorn instead of sword because then they could do with just a single animation for 8 skills.

That’s a little unfair. When I look at the other elite specs and their new weapon skills the use of a varied animation scheme (or new animations) is noticeable.

Which is reassuring as well as disappointing. On one hand, it shows ANet is committed to their portrayal of elite spec weapon skills. On the other hand, it possibly demonstrates a lack of resources/desire to bring this same attention to detail to the Tempest’s warhorn.