Guild Wars 2

I just posted this in the suggestion forums at : https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/Restore-Warrior-Sword-Animations/first#post1074704 , and I wanted to run it by you guys. Any Devs feel free to take this down/merge this with the other, I just wanted a wider opinion.

Hello! When I first started playing GW2, I loved the idea of warriors and what their theme was. I was greatly inspired by this video (located in the Warrior Profession Tab on this website), and it is probably the reason I wanted to play warriors so bad. Specifically at 0:39 in the video.

That being said, when I got to the game, the very first night it was pre-released, I made my warrior. I was so excited about all of it that it took me a while to realize that he… well… wasn’t really that awesome. Then I realized. It was the sword animation. In the video, his attacks are elaborate, powerful, and beautiful. In game, the attacks are like the ones that the other people have in the video. Small, lame, and strangely reminiscent of a little dirt trailing on the end of the blade.

PLEASE restore the warrior animations. They are what gave us our theme, and a big part of what makes Guild Wars so visually attractive. If it seems like it would be controversial, then by all means make it a checkbox in the options menu to, “Show enhanced warrior animation.”

I am not asking for you to make something new and incredible. I am really impressed by what you guys have done in the past, and I hope that you guys will be able to appreciate it enough to re-implement it into the game.

NOTE: I realize that there was an animation in game that had more effects, however that was more recently and was more like a blob appearing on the target, rather than the “stroke” like effect in the video.

Thank you for all you have done and continue to do to make this game what it is.

I forgot all about this. This video makes the Warrior look so beastly. Too bad that’s not the case currently. Stomp and Bull Rush being on high cds prevent us from doing the same. Warrior would be so much cooler if we had better, natural, CC. It would make us more feared in melee and would bring more “flash”. However, like most potentially useful abilities we have cd problem.

They may suck at balancing the game, but they are great at advertising.

As for the effects, players complained about them. It made it very hard to see what was going on, with so many particle effects on screen. Which is why I think they changed it.

I wouldn’t mind if it was just a personal option, where you could turn it on or off. Maybe they could even make it so that you can decide to see other people’s or not?

I agree with it being a graphics option.

Yep.The game needs more bling bling! But sure – some may say it’s too much, so the best course is to make it a graphic option.
Now, even as soon as 3 months in the game, it starts looking stale with the boring animations.

That shield block is what made me want to play a warrior. Too bad the cool down is 5x that.