Guild Wars 2

I suppose this is not really a bug but I did not see a “better” place to post the “request”.

This is purely cosmetic.

The Bough of Melandru seems to be a pretty cool looking item until you actually construct and use it. Afterwards, or in preview, you notice a number of things about that make it highly undesirable vs other items. Considering what it takes to create I think it merits a “better” skin.

1)Its over all “tiny” compared to other back pieces and its sought after, apparent from its content, detail. ie: Tiny trees, water fall, flowers, etc.
2)It has no animation but a couple tiny strings of moss that move.
3)On charr, not sure how one would solve this it is positioned very oddly.
4)It does not appear to scale well or at all in that it scales down for an Asura but if it scales up for a Charr its by a tiny factor.

It would be nice if they were to possibly do a number of things.
1)Make it scale up large. On the likes of Charr or Nord it looks border line like carrying a log on your back with some twigs sticking off. On smaller characters much of this “detail” is not very discernible.

2)Add some effects such as glowing and/or moving water. Sparkles off the flowers (much like other flowered back items),

3)Some level of redesign such as a branch towards the back that makes it more vertical on Charr etc. I realize this positioning issue is likely very difficult to resolve but Id think something could be done.

Anyhow, I know this may seem picky but I was looking for a more “druid look” for back items (cant do the druid stone currently but planning to now) and it being ascended. I thought the Bough looked extremely cool and I could make use of my crafting to accomplish it. Nice reward for that work. Upon obtaining the recipe etc I began previewing it on my characters, my Charr is the druid, only to find it was really quite poor looking on most and only border line acceptable (imho) on human sized characters and even then it lost a lot of its desirable characteristics.

Also, while I cant speak from experience as I dont plan to make it now, I have heard it has a major issue with the infused vs uninfused creation in which you waste twice the amount of materials than other back items making it. Searching the forums there is a bug report about this if you are so inclined.