Guild Wars 2

Why does the Ranger carry the weapon as it would a hammer? I can understand the melee incarnations of it for the Rev and Thief, but why not use the standard spellcaster animation for the Ranger?

Totally Agreed. Hopefully ANet does something about this!!

I would like this changed too , but I can get used to that way of holding the staff too so no biggie

I was expecting to see the Druid to wear the staff in one hand instead of two aswell, it just makes way more sense for a spellcaster. Hopefully they pay attention to this.

Please change it Arenanet.

So they recycled the hammer stance animation… again? And this time for a spellcasting class?!

uuuuuuuuuuuuuugggghhh

As soon as I saw the pic of that Druid holding the staff, my reaction was literally this, man. Like why, Anet? Just… why???

Leviathan.6327:

So they recycled the hammer stance animation… again? And this time for a spellcasting class?!

uuuuuuuuuuuuuugggghhh

As soon as I saw the pic of that Druid holding the staff, my reaction was literally this, man. Like why, Anet? Just… why???

Lol yup.

I dunno man, Anet has seriously been taking lazy shortcuts with the aesthetics of this game. Just look at Daredevil animations. Absolutely abysmal.

Ooh! Instead of changing the animation maybe we can get rid of the crappy staff and get our hammers!!! Long live the bunny thumpers!

If they recycle anything it should be the staff animation from the ritualist. That just would have been cool.

I’m guessing they chose the hammer-staff animation because the Ranger’s staff AA is a two-handed blast rather than the usual “wave hand around while holding staff in the other” sort of AA that most casting classes have.

Given that the rangers use their staff with two hands for their most common attack, it makes sense that they’d hold the staff in two hands normally.

They thought I was CRAZY when I posted a thread before the reveal asking for Druid to wield the staff as a spellcaster… but not so crazy now huh!! huh?!?!?!

I like the running animation, makes it feel like youre ready to fight, rather than carrying a stick

Kahrgan.7401:

I like the running animation, makes it feel like youre ready to fight, rather than carrying a stick

More like you’re looking for the hammer head that fell off your two-handed hammer.

Considering the female human staff animation makes your character look like she is very smug about the brain damage she has just received, I prefere it this way.