Guild Wars 2

HOPE is the first Legendary I’ve ever made, and it’s hard enough being an Asuran Engineer, but now I’m noticing how glitchy the arm auras are.

If you look at the image I attached, the effects work at random it seems. Sometimes there is NO aura, sometimes it’s only on one arm if I’m dual wielding them, sometimes it appears only on the shoulders but not the forearm, sometimes it’s super faded and I can hardly notice it.

Is this intended? Or is this a bug? I made this gun because I like the arm effect, the laser bullets, and the sounds, but it seems like the main selling point of this Legendary, the visuals, aren’t working all the time.

Also, to clarify, this seems to happen more frequently in WvW, regardless of being in a zerg or not. In PvE this doesn’t happen too much. At least, to my knowledge. I haven’t done any big meta events since I made the gun.

Nah, it’s not just WvW, I did more PvE and dungeons and it happens just as often.

I thought it might be more likely to happen if I unequip a kit, but that doesn’t do it. I can’t think of anything that effects it, wielding and stowing the guns in combat seems to make it glitch more than out of combat.

I actually finished HOPE last night also and noticed this too. It happens after shooting a few shots, almost like the other effects are “stealing” the arm effect away. It’s really disappointing actually. Hopefully this can get some of the attention it deserves.

EDIT: This is actually a pretty big deal. A large part of the effects are the arm effects. Imagine if the aura for one of the greatswords disappeared after a few attacks. I think a lot of people just don’t have this weapon yet due to the time and gold required and so it hasn’t garnered much attention. It’d be awesome if this could get fixed.

Yeah, this is a bummer.. And hey, while we’re at it.. it leaves a pitifully short foot trail compared to most other legendaries, I wish it were as long as the swords or the incinerator which leaves like 10 steps or so.

Also.. I wish HOPE had the effect of the Chak Egg aura, I saw someone running around with it the other day, and it seemed more like a HOPE thing that Chak imo..

Yes, totally agreed there also. I have Eternity, Dreamer, Bifrost, Kudzu, and Quip and all their footfalls last MUCH longer. At least just add a couple more, the decay isn’t even comparable to the other legendaries. It’s like 1/5 the trail that the older ones have.

Overall I LOVE this weapon but these two details frustrate me, although admittedly the arm bug frustrates me more because it’s a real bug on one of the most important effects on one of the most prestigious and time-consuming items in the game.

Same bug happens with Nevermore, the feathers animation on your arm disappears randomly.

We’ve figured out via reddit that this is tied to the Effect LOD option being on. It for some reason culls your own legendary effects, and it’s not just HOPE. In fact, it’s a lot of the legendaries to some extent. This is still a bug to me.