Guild Wars 2

I am absolutely thrilled with my Asura Mesmer, and the way the mesmer uses the greatsword as more of a beacon of energy was/ is one of the main reasons i play the class. It makes me sad that my Asura has to awkwardly hold it out away from himself like he’s afraid of it rather than levitating it and making it spin like other mesmer’s while attacking.

Yeah charr have the same issue. I really hope it gets changed at some point, but I wouldn’t hold my breath.

Gaiawolf.8261:

Yeah charr have the same issue. I really hope it gets changed at some point, but I wouldn’t hold my breath.

Me too
I realize that they have important things to work on, and this is merely an inconvenience to a lot of us, but it would be nice to enjoy (in my opinion) one of the coolest aspects of being a mesmer

Actually I hate the Levitating GS and made my Mesmer an Asura for the very reason of not wanting to see it. I much prefer my “I have the power” GS attack than the lame spinning hovering sword.. There are three races for people that like that animation please leave the other 2 alone for those of us that don’t.

It would be nice if you could acquire different animations akin to the way you can acquire different skins. It would allow for a lot of nice customization and provide some surprises for folks that have memorized the various class/race “tells” in pvp.

Fact is I am not going to change my race around just to have access to one animation. I really like the idea of being able to “acquire” those animations or being able to select/deselect them.

To be fair, for Charr I think it looks pretty kitten how they hold the sword. Very fitting for such a physically imposing race.

For Asura it’s odd because it looks like it was intended to be some temporary early-beta solution. Look how the upper hand bends: That can’t have been the final end result of the animation team, that’s some intermediate thing you make the testers work with while you work on more pressing issues.

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Animations would be amazing. Imagine if they were like dyes (applied to weapons, however), and would be sort of GW2’s “super high end loot”. Instead of some post-Ascended gear, you get a new animation for your 2Her.

Better would be to have different client side animations available from the Gem Shop, friendly players could choose to see other friendly players new animations or not. That last bit is rather important, being forced to see new animations makes PvP’ing harder and unfair, but also being forced to see friendly players new animations could be confusing as well. I could see being in a Hotjoin and being like. . . wtf is that? friend or foe ability? And not realizing it was Healing Rain and I needed to stand in it. Just an example, and one I wouldn’t expect to see happening often as few people play staff Ele in sPvP hotjoins.

Edit: That being said, client side so I could have my Asura Mesmer having the sword floating above my right arm as I stretch it out (and not between both arms like all other races) as an optional animation. . . well I’d purchase that from the gem shop. In fact, things like that are the only thing I’d purchase from the Gem Shop, color change client side on my particle effects would be awesome too.