Guild Wars 2

Well guys, i know this is a subjective subject and that there is plenty of things more importants (like fixing legends underwater, vengefull hammers and sword 3 near walls, Mallyx and Jalis buffs…) but i just have download the raid patch today and i have seen that herald picture has been changed. I would love to know why? I mean look at others legends, they have special picture of them, one for each legend. Why Brill would be different? She is basically a new legend so why couldn’t we have her artwork for the elite spec? Like it was before?
Are they people sharing my opinion?

I know too that my topic are not going to change anything. We don’t have dev and, when pvp need balance they actually just bugfixes it, and make a tournament with completly broken balance… Well. Revenant need a LOT of work, berserker needs some drastics changes too. There is nothing going to change since at last some months, at better but well i just want to share my disappointment with Brill picture remplaced by just a random crystalized guy…

I think they did this with a few classes lol no idea why that was on the priority list. I want Glint back :/

Pardon my ignorance, but what are you talking about?

Lonewolf Kai.3682:

Pardon my ignorance, but what are you talking about?

About the kitten ugly norn that has nothing to do with our spec instead of Glint in herald artwork.

well EACH elite spec has its own artwork . the same one that they created for each releases.

So it seems fair enough . Tempest has changed too

Burtnik.5218:

Lonewolf Kai.3682:

Pardon my ignorance, but what are you talking about?

About the kitten ugly norn that has nothing to do with our spec instead of Glint in herald artwork.

Oh, is this the artwork on the Traits menu? I haven’t even looked at it in awhile. Why would they change it?

Lonewolf Kai.3682:

Burtnik.5218:

Lonewolf Kai.3682:

Pardon my ignorance, but what are you talking about?

About the kitten ugly norn that has nothing to do with our spec instead of Glint in herald artwork.

Oh, is this the artwork on the Traits menu? I haven’t even looked at it in awhile. Why would they change it?

Yes it is.
Before raid patch it was this (just brill):
http://img15.hostingpics.net/pics/656868gw875.jpg

After it is this:
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/images/thumb/0/06/Spec_image_Herald.jpg/245px-Spec_image_Herald.jpg

I know they have changed some artworks for some elite specs too but my question is this one. We already have an artwork of every legend. Herald is supposed to be a new legend. So why don’t we have the artwork of the legend? Brill? Insteed of this we have a cristalyzed ugly norn…
It don’t change nothing, and revenant need a lot of work. But i’m sad that this artwork has gone… I was happy with one artwork for every legend.

I’m actually kinda hoping it was done for the right reasons.

Being Herald should be about being a Herald of the Legends. Not a “Herald of Glint”.

When ANet designed the Herald they sorta forgot that the extra utilities from an Elite spec are meant to be optional – so implying that Glint is a baked in aspect of the Elite spec rather than a thematic option included with the spec is wrong. Glint is no more a required part of Herald than Shouts are for Reapers and Tempests.

If I had my way I’d have them change Facet of Nature into something more generic like “Heraldic Aura” or “Heraldic Presence” then have the second effect depend on what Legend you have invoked currently.

The changing second effect thing is interesting Dastion, however your points on artwork don’t make sense because the new art is holding a shield and that is not a baked in aspect of the elite spec either.

gannondorf.7628:

There is nothing going to change since at last some months, at better but well i just want to share my disappointment with Brill picture remplaced by just a random crystalized guy…

I noticed it then shrugged it off because of so many other changes in the patch. But looking at it outside of the game, I agree. Glint should be there, I don’t know why we’re heralds to this unnamed Norn.

Two random questions:
1) Maybe the Norn is suppose to symbolize the player interacting with Glint and the Norn commune with spirits. But Rytlock commune with spirits just fine and he’s not a Norn. Also, Glint seemed to favor the humans and the dwarves despite caring for all the races of Tyria. Which bears the question, why Norn artwork?
2) Lastly, why the artwork choice of a male Norn? Not trying to be sexist but most of the traits art in the game are males which is fine. The Herald was one of the few trait lines that actually had female, Glint, artwork. If anything, I would think Jora or Eir look-alike being in the picture is better representative than the unnamed Norn. (There is an idea, Jora being a Revenant Legend).

Arutha.9874:

The changing second effect thing is interesting Dastion, however your points on artwork don’t make sense because the new art is holding a shield and that is not a baked in aspect of the elite spec either.

True. But that is at least part of the elite spec silhouette – like how a Bow is for the Dragon Hunter.