Guild Wars 2

I recently purchased Marjory’s Dagger from the gem store for my necro, and upon playing with it a bit I noticed it changed some of my animations – and not entirely for the better I’m afraid…
Most notable is that off-hand dagger skill #4, Deathly Swarm, no longer plays its animation and instead my necro just throws his knife at people. I’ve also confirmed that it does something similar for Death Shroud #1, Life Blast, and Death Shroud #2, Dark Path.

I’m not entirely certain whether this is intended or not, as I know there are other weapons that do this like the Incinerator. But it makes more sense for the incinerator, its a fiery blade of doom! Marjory’s dagger is cool looking but you can’t hardly see it when you throw the thing.

So does anyone know? Bug or Feature? And if bug, can haz fix plz?

Noticed the same thing. Also a necro, also Deathly Swarm. It’s pretty kitten annoying…I love the Necromancer’s own animations, thank you very much ><

Apparently, the Marjory’s axe does the same thing and replaces the generic thrown axe.
Legendary effects & features should remain only on Legendaries, not store-bought weapons/armor, imo.

I concur with Liquid Rhino. Besides the fact that legendaries are supposed to be special, if you were going to get The Incinerator then you would know LONG before putting in the effort that your animations were going to be changed. I did not know this was gonna be the case and if I did I wouldn’t have spent my money.

Regardless of what happens with this thread Anet, if you’re gonna have weapons that INTENTIONALLY change an animation, PLEASE advertise it, otherwise you’re gonna have a lot of annoyed customers.

Wow, I had no idea certain/all Legendaries or any weapon changed your skill animations. Is it mentioned on the weapon description? Or just ‘common knowledge’?

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Wow, I had no idea certain/all Legendaries or any weapon changed your skill animations. Is it mentioned on the weapon description? Or just ‘common knowledge’?

Kinda a Teste&See yourself case.

Not only legendarys though, some uncommon exotic weapons like “Foefire’s Essence” also slight change some weapons effects.

About the effects though, they are usually not bad in any class.
Its just that the necro changes are terrible.

Ahh, then the ‘know long before putting in effort’ is player-situational. Lol, thought I was clueless, as usual. =)

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Wow, I had no idea certain/all Legendaries or any weapon changed your skill animations. Is it mentioned on the weapon description? Or just ‘common knowledge’?

sorry but not all legendries change skill animation for example FSP for engineer your #5 skill still throws a wooden shield at your enemy and shield 4 is same animation as always.

Same here with my Ele.

Instead so shooting 3 lines of fire… I now throw 3 daggers. Doesn’t look good to be honest compared to the old animations. :-(

Also does this when attuned to water as well. Simply throws a dagger back and forth.

Pretty disappointing.