Guild Wars 2

Hi, so lately few people with legendary weapons have shown up and today I saw a mesmer with a sunrise. My main is also a mesmer and so far I’m also going for sunrise as I find it to look great and fitting for my me. I myself am far away from legy, but as I noticed mesmers have only 1 skill that looks somehow different while wielding sunrise.

Sorry if there has been already a discussion about this.

I find that to be very unfair and depressing a little. When warriors or guardians use legendary greatswords it just looks amazing, all the visual effects on skills. So why only 1 for mesmers?

Is it that I have misunderstood something and mesmers have more then 1 skill affected by the legy or are not all the animations in yet or developers just didn’t think of mesmers as highly for this matter then other professions?

Point of this thread is to ask you all other mesmers what do you think?

Yeah, I too would’ve loved to craft Twilight or Sunrise but it’d just be wasteful using either of them on my Mesmer. The only animation they affect is Mirror Blade’s and even so that’s not especially flashy. I would love to see ANet give some consideration to the Mesmer GS animations and how they interact with the legendaries.

It would be interesting if the attack effects from Mesmer (The lightning streaming from it, and the Illusionary Wave) all carried the effect of the weapon layering on it as well.

But I’ll be working on Bolt first anyways.

I also though that the lightning beam of wave could be turned into the day/night effect that comes from the swords, I kind of even hoped for that, seemed fitting and quite logical. So I was very surprised when i saw what they had not done that..or anything else in that matter.

Hey, why not go for Eternity? Combine Sunrise and Twilight for a much more epic greatsword. lol. How hard can that be…

Mesmer’s dont have any swing animations with greatsword so It’d be nice to see some adjustments for legendary greatswords for mesmers…we’re being punished here.

I definitely would agree with this I’m working towards the Legendary and would like to see it reflect a bit better in Mesmer abilities.

I’m getting twilight just cause it looks pretty on my back. Don’t really care otherwise.

Don’t they produce the graphics effect on every movement of the sword? If yes, GS-using Asuras hooooooo \o/

Ya i agree with most points regarding the lack of animation for a legendary weapon(greatsword).There should be some improvement on this befitting of a legendary weapon worthy of its name.This include animation not just on mesmer class but for all classes that suffer the same type issue. The great sword is not so great until you guy make it great.Cheers =)

Imo Vision of the Mists looks better than the legendaries for mesmer.

I have a Mesmer and a tiny Asura… Pretty much worst combination for a legendary but I still want to get one. Just wish they upped the scale a bit on weapons for the Asura and do more flashy stuff for the various Mesmer abilities if you say it doesn’t really show much (I haven’t seen for myself what the effects are like on the Mesmer yet)

Sounds like a first-world problem .

I’ll be swingin’ (or not swinging I guess, on a Mesmer) my Mystic Claymore for a long, long time :P.

Would be nice to see all possible visuals of a legendary GS’s on a mesmer.
Walking, running, jumping, skills, to see all that a legendary offers a mesmer.

So if any mesmer here owns any of the legendary GS’s please make a video <3

well, ive got a Sunrise, and even i looking for better visuals….. it would even be enough if the Phantasmal Berserker would get the Sunrise. Somehow i am disappointet in the sunrise on my mesmer.

Killua.8041:

Imo Vision of the Mists looks better than the legendaries for mesmer.

Couldn’t agree more.

I sold a dusk to get the legendary sceptor soley because of the Mesmer GS animation lacking for legendary. Although it is a shame that the scepter is such a “meh” weapon for a Mesmer (I like its effects though).

It must be time to bump my old thread again.
Here’s a quick copypasta of the OP:

Gonna try to keep this concise. :P
Two questions to start
…

For ArenaNet:
Is it plausible to alter the animations of a mesmer’s
greatsword skills to better match those of Sunrise?

For players:
Would other mesmers who have obtained Sunrise
be interested in these changes?

Including:

• Spatial Surge’s purple beam changed to match the color palette of the particle effect trail of Sunrise
• Illusionary Wave’s spread-pattern effect changed to match the color palette of the particle effect trail of Sunrise
• Mind Stab altered such that what is rising from the ground matches the appearance of Sunrise (or, again, Sunrise’s color palette used for the effect)
• Phantasmal Berserker altered such that the phantasm is holding a phantasmal image of Sunrise (still purple and “illusionary,” but the same model as sunrise and leaving the same trail; this one is the hardest to pull off :P)

Just some ideas I would’ve implemented from day one. Not all mesmers are scepter/torch shattercats, you know (in fact, very few are).

Currently the only effect Sunrise alters on a mesmer is Mirror Blade, and the effect change is well-implemented… but it’d be nice to have such changes applied to all of the weapon’s skills as well. It’s all about getting noticed, after all.

Finally, I’ve been waiting for a thread like this, was actually going to make on myself.

I too am discouraged about getting my legendary with my mesmer, especially due to the animations. I never took into account how bad the animations were, extremely lackluster. The skill 4 raises the sword in the air but that doesn’t compare to whirlwinds or whirling wrath. Mirrored images is kind of meh, mind stab is a short skill cast time, and illusionary wave is too. There’s no good channel like hundred blades or whirling wrath or even just swooping into combat (ranger skill). We can’t swing the sword around instead it just rotates in our hands. If it’s possible for a rework on the animations, that’d be awesome but I’m seriously doubting it. It’s not like they can justify making the animation for mirrored images a whirl or anything of the sort.

And btw, if they were to make the change, Aneirin, they would have to do that for the other classes as well. So keep that in mind, but I agree with you on the phantasm part, I was thinking of the same idea for a few days now.

sigh kind of regret soulbinding my dusk to my mesmer

can the make a purple legendary? plus im really sad that my ascended weapons are orange ewww. might go for celestial and transmute…well double the cost then XD

Killua.8041:

Imo Vision of the Mists looks better than the legendaries for mesmer.

I made my ascended gs today and skinned it with Vision

I understand all your pan, we should definitely have special animations for legendary greatswords. But alas I’m going for Rodgort and I believe this, like all our ideas, will fall on anet’s deaf ears.

Killua.8041:

Imo Vision of the Mists looks better than the legendaries for mesmer.

True, but it’s biggest upside – and at the same time, disappointment – is that it makes you look the same as the other Mesmers running around with you.

Should really stick legendaries on the phantasms.

Atleast iZerker with whirl would show the blade trail nicely.

Quip would finally be worth getting on mesmer as well with Duelist, would be absolutely amazing.

Even iWarden duel wielding Minstrels would look fantastic with the note particles, they would fly all over the place as he spins.

+1 @ Knote

It would definitely make phantasms more special. The notes on the warden would be amazing, it would make me want to go for the Minstrel for sure. If they could make changes for legendaries so thakittenaffects the skills of the class, and not just mesmer but the rest of the greatsword wielding classes, that would be amazing.

Phantasms should simply wear legendaries. Change iWarlock to staff whielder btw

… Image an iDuellist with 2 Quips