Guild Wars 2

If anyone members, guards before HOT had tomes, animation looked like this youtube video.

for some reason, the new tomes (vitrues) don’t use this animation w/ the big old book. i says they should put it back in

I want the tomes back too ;(.

Zenith.7301:

I want the tomes back too ;(.

it always seemed to me that guards of the past enjoyed the animation as much if not more than the function of tomes. i think was probabily a big raisin why players wanted tomes back at all. it was unque animation that other classes did not use

I don’t understand what’s so cool about having a giant book in your face. The open-handed caster aesthetic is so much cooler, imo.

Sorry I don’t share the same opinion there. I was never a fan of old Tomes in any aspect; aesthetics nor abilities.

Old tomes were gimmicks imho.

New one are better but needs tweaking in numbers, design wise they are good.

New tomes are not tomes. Yes, they have the name, but that’s all. They are pages.

Malthurius.6870:

I don’t understand what’s so cool about having a giant book in your face. The open-handed caster aesthetic is so much cooler, imo.

It’s the epitome of laziness. It’s not an “open-handed aesthetic”, it’s literally nothing. They didn’t design anything, they just have your character use the default combat stance, holding invisible weapons. They didn’t even disable the idle animations, so your character is sitting there throwing an invisible weapon to the air and catching it again.

It’s by far the worst skill effects they’ve designed, because they simply didn’t design anything.

Jaxom.7310:

Zenith.7301:

I want the tomes back too ;(.

it always seemed to me that guards of the past enjoyed the animation as much if not more than the function of tomes. i think was probabily a big raisin why players wanted tomes back at all. it was unque animation that other classes did not use

There were a few reasons why people liked them. They had nice aesthetics, but people also enjoyed them because they played like a “holy mage” or a monk for Tome of Wrath and Tome of Courage respectively.

RabbitUp.8294:

New tomes are not tomes. Yes, they have the name, but that’s all. They are pages.

Malthurius.6870:

I don’t understand what’s so cool about having a giant book in your face. The open-handed caster aesthetic is so much cooler, imo.

It’s the epitome of laziness. It’s not an “open-handed aesthetic”, it’s literally nothing. They didn’t design anything, they just have your character use the default combat stance, holding invisible weapons. They didn’t even disable the idle animations, so your character is sitting there throwing an invisible weapon to the air and catching it again.

It’s by far the worst skill effects they’ve designed, because they simply didn’t design anything.

I’ll agree that a unique stance would be nice, but don’t be so hyperbolic. The particle effects, aura, and casting animations are not ‘nothing’.

Now that I think about it… the old tomes had the guardian stand in the same stance… so were the old tomes also ‘nothing’ because the character stands in the same way as when they wield 1-handed weapons?