Guild Wars 2

Howler deserves better bump

Bumping.

Just obtained Howl earlier this week, disappointing to learn of this.

I’m happy to see how long this post has weathered on for and the more people that take notice to this will hopefully obligate anet to give some sorta of response. i could however understand why they would not tell us that they have no plan on fixing that, and that is because it could then fluctuate the market a little for howler but I guess we’ll see

Nightwin.6423:

I’m happy to see how long this post has weathered on for and the more people that take notice to this will hopefully obligate anet to give some sorta of response. i could however understand why they would not tell us that they have no plan on fixing that, and that is because it could then fluctuate the market a little for howler but I guess we’ll see

I have not seen them fear fluctuating the market in the past.

Why were we on the 5th page? Our howling must be heard on the 1st page!

DarkWasp.7291:

Why were we on the 5th page? Our howling must be heard on the 1st page!

Well sadly our cries have already been seen by anet but not dramatically enough to bring of a response but we will keep trying OUR DISCUSSION WILL BE HEARD FOR NARNIA

Well Im quite happy today for the fact that they released information on the new legendary crafting don’t get me wrong sounds like an awesome idea, only thing Im bummed about is that they said there gonna update previous precursor skins and not the legendarys, it seems like there would be no point if the new precursor for howler looks like the howler to make the howler. I made howler originally for the night time effect, I loved it cause you could have a non over the top legendary when you were just cruising the world but would look awesome for stuff like dungeons, who knows maybe they’ll actually update the legendarys there is always hope…

If the only bonus to the look of Howler is the addition of the paltry footfalls and (admittedly subtle and nice) fog aura, as well as the terrible howling sound and moon/wolf on skill activation, I’d rather not bother. They need to make it worth 8 stacks of T6 mats, 77 clovers, 250 ecto, and a whole lot of time and effort for me to go to the length of crafting something that just “kinda sorta looks a little better than the precursor.”

I hope they realize this, and that their art pass on precursors has pushed their hand into taking a look at the actual legendaries themselves.

Ark Bladesteele.2943:

terrible howling sound and moon/wolf on skill activation

Actually I think it’s just a wolf and it’s very hard to notice over the skills’ normal effects.

I hope they will improve/fix Howler in the HoT expansion (with the old pre skins changes and new legendaries)

:( Really Arena-net?! We had the same timeintense like for other legendarys why cant you fix it the way it was. All wait till 10 months for you to fix it still nothing.

Howler used to be one of the best legendaries because of the night time effect (had cool sparks as well) , but now it doesn’t feel legendary at all. Dreamthistle warhorn ftw .p

This is pretty much end game content for the game. End game content is what keeps players around, keeping the game alive. Please fix this, as it will also give more incentive to other future Howler crafters.

bumping to see visual effects buffed & moon/louder howl

I sumitted a ticket in game about the lack of effects on this legendary, but heard nothing. I guess Arenanet don’t care about their customers who pour 100’s of hours into their game only to discover the weapon they made is only half working.

This needs more attention, fix howler please.

Bump for more attention

It’s a very poor show from ANet that not one of their employees can be bothered to reply to this thread. Howler is a pale shadow of what it once was and doesn’t really feel legendary any more. Come on ANet … either fix this or compensate us for giving us a half-baked legendary weapon. Or at least someone have the courtesy to acknowledge that there is a problem and let us know whether you have any intention of fixing it.

Legendary horn v2 will be howler that has all its bugs out and all previous effects.

Andraus.3874:

Legendary horn v2 will be howler that has all its bugs out and all previous effects.

Oh yea HoT warhorn announcement: “Pre-bug howler”

So any other news on this? dunno if Anet will announce anything on legendaries till the last moment because the impact on the economy, Howl would probably also go up in price if they mentioned anything

They reply to other threads pertaining to issues like the HOM thread but with this issue Anet is nowhere to be found. A simple answer is all we ask for.

This sums it up perfectly:

enlightened.5396:

It’s a very poor show from ANet that not one of their employees can be bothered to reply to this thread.

Here is my thread they merged:

Why is Howler still broken? (for those who don’t know the night animation is missing)

When weapons like incinerator and dreamer broke you/Anet fixed then instantly, you even updated Moot and Bifrost, but for some reason you have ignored Howler having a bug. (and i’m sure others will probably have issues)

Basically I (and many others) would like to know are there any plans to fix Howler? If yes what is the eta? It has already been way too long.

It’s been over a year since they broke it and the only response that we’ve (my husband & I) gotten is from customer service telling us Oh why don’t you post to the forums to see if other people want the night animations back….as if it was intended.

They broke howler and can’t even tell us that they plan on fixing it.

khani.4786:

…customer service telling us Oh why don’t you post to the forums to see if other people want the night animations back…

So the four pages in this thread don’t count, or what? And I still say that the howl effect, even if it was bothersome before and needed to be tuned down, is now completely underwhelming. If I could, I would skin the crimson lion warhorn’s sound over howler’s, at this point. At least crimson lion’s sounds impressive. Howler just kind of sounds like somebody perforated my warhorn, so now it sounds weird.

At least there’s mist…?

khani.4786:

They broke howler and can’t even tell us that they plan on fixing it.

Which is the worst part, a simple reply on if it will be fixed would make the majority happy.
It’s an item they made to be “legendary” in game and they don’t even fix it.

This weapon seriously needs to be reverted before the April 2014 Features Pack… even the clipping of the wolf after it howls bugs out as before it had a fluid motion… I wish they would respond to shush us at least.. simply revert it to previous and all is well IMO. I even just skinned over my Howler with the Scientific Warhorn.. after finally getting sick of a boring legendary as of that April 2014 Feature Pack.. I actually made it for the way it was before. Not that it will matter me writing any of this anyway.. just wanted another add another voice to be heard.

If the endless howl loop (which wasn’t really endless it was only at night time… and which an actually wolf makes howls … hence the name of the legendary..) Make the howl last a minimum of 5 seconds… this way it settles both views on it. Just return this legendary to it’s previous glory :/.

Im going to put my post here too, my friend and i both where going to make Howler for our rangers, till we found out it was broken. I went with the dreamer and she hasnt found another legendary she wants to make.

Please Anet, let us know if you will actually fix this.
You’re making a full set of new legendary weapons, you enhanced ones that weren’t even broken but you wont fix one you broke. SIGH

A friend whispered with Gaile Gray in game and she said “check the forum, this is a continued discussion” as if to say Anet had actually replied and been part of the conversation….

Responding here would be so simple but they seem determined to ignore the issue.

I PM’ed a few of the Anet ppl who handle working on the legendary and who work on the forum and all of them ignored my very polite request to at least read and respond to this thread.

The best I got was in infraction for bumping this thread. :/

Basically really poor form ANET.

Yea Im still waiting for an answer to this one my first and only pre is for this legendary.
I aint crafting it untill its fixed.

We build legendary weapons because we want them to be legendary. Disabling parts of their special effects means they are no longer the awesomeness they were intended to be.

Was about to begin my quest for this today and remembered it got broken. I’m shocked there’s no response to this

Id make this too if it was fixed. Currently able to make 3 legendaries but waiting for the HOT. Of course precursor isn’t too bad for this one so if it was fixed I’d make it now. But oh well.

My husband and I both still want this fixed.

We need these back & fixed:
Nightime effects (moon & sparkles back)
Proper wolf howl sound effect when blown (not the lackluster what there is currently)
Footsteps to persist just a tiny bit longer. Not much, just a few more steps longer.

I’m so happy to see the support to continue on this thread!!!
Another issue I have now thought about is that the fact of the new precursors coming with HOT and being that the new precursor for Howler will end up being like the one for the moot and that means that it’ll practically be the legendary however with out the lighting effects (this isn’t confirmed however very likely do to design)
Thirdly with the new night system in the hot maps it’ll be really cool to have the night time effect again

khani.4786:

We need these back & fixed:
Nightime effects (moon & sparkles back)
Proper wolf howl sound effect when blown (not the lackluster what there is currently)
Footsteps to persist just a tiny bit longer. Not much, just a few more steps longer.

This is exactly what needs to be done.

I’m still shocked Anet disabled a lovely weapons features to “bandaid” fix an issue with AC weapons and didn’t bother to come back and solve the issues they caused.

It’s not like it’s a major job to fix. If it was something like incinerator/bifrost/twilight they would fix it in a day.

Nightwin.6423:

With the new night system in the hot maps it’ll be really cool to have the night time effect again

You just made me want it fixed even more </3

I feel bad for you guys. I don’t even have the legend due to the issues but I think you all really deserve some type of response. This issue is obviously pushed to the back burner indefinitely at this point when it really should not be in my opinion.

Just showing some support for you all. :-)

ANet you really do have very poor customer relations. This issue, affecting an item that takes a huge amount of effort and/or cost to obtain, deserves a response from one of your team. You broke Howler, you should fix it.

On the assumption that there will be something in this forum that flags to you posts that mention you by name – Gaile Gray.

Please show some decent customer service for once and have the courtesy to respond to this thread.

Andraus.3874:

This issue is obviously pushed to the back burner indefinitely at this point when it really should not be in my opinion.

The part that annoys me is they upgraded Moot and Bifrost when they were already awesome (though i do love what they did) but they ignored they one they disabled.

enlightened.5396:

This issue, affecting an item that takes a huge amount of effort and/or cost to obtain, deserves a response from one of your team.

This sums it up. They made an item which they wanted you to feel is “legendary” yet they don’t both to maintain it.

i feel for you guys, this is the same kitten as with the removed idle animations

Nightwin.6423:

…the new precursor for Howler will end up being like the one for the moot and that means that it’ll practically be the legendary however with out the lighting effects…

This^^
Howl will become Howler without the mist. Not sure how many people would be willing to fork out the extra 1k or whatever gold to give it a bit of fog.

For me now it feels like my efforts were a waste. My necromancer is very, very sad without her shiny moon.

Mortifer.2946:

i feel for you guys, this is the same kitten as with the removed idle animations

Yep, Anet has a very meh track record of “fixing” things.
Between Howler, a few other legendary weps, the idle animation and the current situation with the Monk outfit I get sad at our hopes of seeing anything get sorted out.

ekkue.3754:

For me now it feels like my efforts were a waste. My necromancer is very, very sad without her shiny moon.

Same for many of us. All that effort for Anet to make Howler subpar when most people were happy with how it was.

Now that Ele is getting warhorn…maybe some attention to fixing Howler? Pretty please?

REJOICE supporters of howler fixes. Recently ele was anounced to be getting warhorn and considering it will most likely become a much more used weapon the warhorn anet might pay more attention to warhorns
Edit: WP also mentioned how the howler is broken meaning that many more will know our endeavours and this shall warrant an even greater response

I cant believe how this has been un-answered for so long and since ele got warhorn I thought they would answer this ah well c’eat last vie

I just saw this topic and sigh….5 months is not enough to fix a silly visual effect or even reply on the matter?

Where are the white knights? I want to see them defending this.

Just got Howler and didn’t even know this

Please Anet

VaLee.5102:

I just saw this topic and sigh….5 months is not enough to fix a silly visual effect or even reply on the matter?

Where are the white knights? I want to see them defending this.

It’s been way more than 5 months since they broke this. They broke it with the April 2014 patch when they removed the endless wolf howl loop.

By removing the wolf howl loop they removed all of the night time effects and the only time you can sort of hear the howl is when you use the warhorn (and most of the time that howl is covered up by your skill effect sound).

They break other legendaries and they get fixed super fast….going on 1.5 YEARS later and Howler is still broken.

Had a new guild member comment on how they liked my Corrupted Skellox axe skin the other day, they didn’t even notice that I had Howler equipped as my offhand…

Come on ANet – how hard can this be – just get it fixed. Your silence on this matter is incredibly frustrating / annoying / insulting. We put a lot of effort into getting this item and, for a legendary weapon, it is unnoticeable.

Thank god it was removed I can enable game sound again beacose my friend has howler

baylock.1703:

Thank god it was removed I can enable game sound again beacose my friend has howler

The endless loop howl being fixed is not the problem here. They removed every last bit of the night time effects. That is what the people here (including me) want back.