Guild Wars 2

I saw a few videos of the Firebrand and i noticed that when you use tomes you just get some sheets of paper around you. Can we please also get the old tome elite animation along with that? It looks silly without it.

I agree. This is what I want, it’s a tome. What we get is a tome in name only, they’re floating pages.

I am very disappointed that there are no tomes. Instead, we stand empty-handed with a bunch of papers flying around. Please, add tomes to animations.

I agree too, i would have preferred an actual two handed tome, as a new weapon or maybe focus main hand? the guardian would rather read the tome pages or write on the pages in the tome like the arcanist in ff xiv.

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I completely agree as well. I was so excited to hear that we would have tomes again (like the old elites Courage and Wisdom), but I was pretty disappointed when I saw that there are just papers flying around. That’s not a tome… The blue flaming books really made you feel powerful – like you were truly drawing power from ancient, magical books.

I would be so happy to see this changed. And since the old elites already existed, we know that Anet has the assets already. So I would think it’d be minimal effort to add those in. Keep all the spell effects (even the pages!), but please please please add the floating tomes back!

Firebrand is the spec i’m the most hyped for, but I totally agree with this! The tomes not actually being tomes (like the old ones were) is like the one criticism I have.

yeah, just add tomes to the animation please.

I disagree… I think it’s really cool how it has this open handed caster look to it; I always wanted to play a caster that just shoots spells out of their hands, and this is finally it.

I never thought the floating books from the old tome elites looked particularly cool; looked pretty goofy with this big book floating in front of you.

I agree with the OP they have the original tome animations which were cool IMO, please anet use them. I still have a memory of the first time I saw a guardian use a tome early in the game.

I’m perfectly fine with a quick animation of Pages ripping out of a Tomb. The old style where we had a giant book floating in front of the Guardian while casting spells was… horrendous.

Comparing it to Firebrand’s implementation, I no longer (never did tbh) like the Old Tomb animations at all.

Tome – a book, especially a large, heavy, scholarly one. I don’t see any of that in Firebrand. And while animations are really cool, without an actual tome and weapons it just doesn’t feel right.

It’s like if necromancer shroud would be just some quick animation and a simple aura with new skill bar and no weapons.