Guild Wars 2

For those of you who are interessted in getting the legendary longbow, Kudzu, here are a few things you need to know.

The skin itself – The brown string that makes no sense:

http://i.imgur.com/eHSZnkR.jpg

The Shooting process:

Step 1: The bugged dryad:

http://i.imgur.com/dd02FyH.jpg

Step 2: The golden arrow:

http://i.imgur.com/31mPHmc.jpg

Step 3: Will the arrow stay or bug away:

http://i.imgur.com/MOtlGZF.jpg

Now onto the effect on crit:

It seems that the effect on critical hits is a blossoming effect that layers over the target’s hitbox and not skin, causing it to be barely visible on some targets and nicely visible on others, here are a few examples:

Effect on a Female Human:

http://i.imgur.com/Ei5dzHc.jpg

Effect on a Female Norn:

http://i.imgur.com/CSCeXA9.jpg

Effect on a Male Norn:

http://i.imgur.com/pFc9HAG.jpg

Effect on a Female Sylvari:

http://i.imgur.com/c9R0F3A.jpg

And that’s about it for the Legendary Longbow Kudzu, i do hope most of these issues will be addressed soon as they were for the legendary Shortbow – The Dreamer in the January patch, and hopefully we will have a truly legendary weapon with quality visible shooting and hitting effects.

So if you too wish for Kudzu to be revamped soon to be on par, in terms of quality of animations and attention to detail, with other legendaries, please let yourselves be heard!

Impales.

PS: As most of you know the footsteps of Kudzu are often referred to as the “Puke Steps” due to the use of only one shape repeated over and over, and the quality of its textures and colors being very poor. The center flower seems to grow in either white or purple, even if once again, its is barely noticeable due to the coloration and poor texturing of the “grass” around it.

I have Kudzu and imho it’s one of the best legendaries. It has nice effects but doesn’t look like toy (twilight/sunrise). The only thing that annoys me is string.

Thanks for the detailed post about the Kudzu’s graphical issues

I’m 43 Icy Runestones away from it so its too late for me to back away now XD

And yes, I do hope that more legendaries get revamped as well!

at least you get footsteps, noone notices my dreamer unless i begin shooting ;)

but nice listings of the bugs, good job.

I have to bump this thread.

I got my Kudzu yesterday after months of hard work. I love the bow, except for that horrible string. IMO it would look a lot better even without the string.

I’ve posted numerous times about the bowstring. I’ve even made suggestions on how to improve it. I’ve even commented on the lack of a barrage animation. But the developers seem to have no plans to make further visual changes to current legendary weapons.

Legendary weapons should be of the best visual quality, considering the significant investment required to obtain. Copy/pasting the same string texture onto every bow because “bows need strings” is a silly and unprofessional looking notion.

Lots of bows are bugged in this game (and tbh almost all of them look bad and not realistic at all). It’s a shame even the legendary kudzu has a bugged string. On a side note, kudzu is NOT the only one with that problem, the destroyer long/shortbow is another one with that ugly bugged bowstring. A lot of bowstrings are affected by different bugs, some of them are not straight, some are just floating like that one.

i noticed some rather annoying graphical bugs on weapons too…
after i finally obtained the ghastly longbow (from the ascalonian catacombs) i was thrilled to see it glow with this flurry effect it has, at least in the preview…
guess what, this effect is visible to me for like once every 7 days, and then only if i dont shoot arrows with it…as soon as i start attacking, that flurry animation stops and wont return either, so basically the bow just switches colors from brown to blue at night and vice versa.
next bug is, when i use certain skills like barrage, after i stop attacking the bow would just keep up the animation of it being pulled and released, even though i’m not doing anything at all…can be fixed by using autoattack once, still kind of annoying, happens with other attacks too.
i still like the bow afterall, but the bugs that come with certain weapons (especially the nicer animated ones it seems…) make me want to think twice about getting weapons with fancy effects…

tl;dr: anet needs to work on weapon animations.

I’m waiting for a new legendary longbow

The bow string doesn’t show up in the preview, so it’s basically false advertisement.

The fractal longbow also has issues. If you use barrage, the arrows will fly up behind the character instead of forwards.

Does anyone find the bird sounds annoying?

Hawks.5736:

Does anyone find the bird sounds annoying?

Kudzu was my first Legendary , i absolutely love it even if its a bit buggy and i rly wish that STUPID STRING didn’t exist. The first day i got it i thought that the constant chirping was maybe sometimes annoying, but honestly i stopped hearing the birdies after a while. I don’t even notice it makes a sound now when i draw it. You just get used to it.~
Now with Howler i can stack the effects too and it looks kinda cool XD

Don’t need to know all that.

All I know is that it’s ugly and that Anet will be making more legendaries. I’ll just wait for those.

You forgot one of the most important features of the Kudzu.

The birds. They are chirping. Always chirping.

Bird bird bird bird is the word buh-buh-bird bird bird bird bird bird bird bird

zeus.9634:

at least you get footsteps, noone notices my dreamer unless i begin shooting

Bingo. I’ve had my dreamer for a few months now and people rarely notice it unless I’m just walking around spamming 1 all day. Still I suppose it could be worse…

I have never liked Kudzu. I don’t want to go around shooting people with flowers, I want a bow for hunting. I really hope we get some more options for Legendaries, especially since there are three Greatswords.

Hawks.5736:

Does anyone find the bird sounds annoying?

Yeah I do, at least sometimes. Sometimes I barely notice it but other times it seems so loud, I feel like Snow White with birds chirping around my head and it’s a bit embarrassing. Ironically one of the reasons I opted for Kudzu over the Dreamer was that having seen other people with Dreamer in-game, I decided that the sound effect from it would grate on me very, very quickly. For some reason I hadn’t picked up on that with Kudzu; maybe there were fewer people with them at the time.

Sometimes I’m actually tempted to go back to my old plain longbow (Bow of the White Hart), but I spent enough time trying to farm the mats for Kudzu that it would feel like a waste. At least I’m Sylvari, so the whole ‘plant-weapon’ thing kind of works.