Guild Wars 2

I didn’t find any topics on this, so sorry if this already has been mentioned. This is more a reclamation than a bug and might be called a “first world problem”, but still I think this issue needs some attention.

Yesterday I purchased the Marriner’s Horn, in order to use it as an instrument and actually play music on it. I assumed that the handling of the instrument and especially the reaction time would be similar to the choir bell, but with a different audio behind it.

As I soon noticed, I was wrong. The cast time and transitions between the notes may sound nice, but unfortunately it prevents musicians from playing anything faster than a funeral march. There is a very high delay on the notes that causes notes to overlap and also makes it nearly impossible to play faster music or time notes correctly (tried to play triplets – resulted in pain) – especially when trying to play the same note several times in a row (triplet on single note).

From watching some youtube videos I noticed, that I’m not alone with this opinion/problem and those who didn’t buy the instrument for trolling and spamming high notes in LA would like to have some changes to the reaction time.

Is it in the slightest way possible/likely, that we might see some changes to the instrument? Because in the current state it can only be efficiently used for trolling.

I noticed that too. It really needs fixed. There are a lot of people that purchased the horn for purposes other than trolling and irritating people. I’ve seen a ton of neat things done with it and I think it’s a great idea. Hopefully they get around to fixing it.

You have to hit escape to terminate it before you move on to the next note when issuing doubles or triples. The problem is this requires extreme timing and makes any up tempo performance manually impossible .

Adding a voice to this thread in hopes Anet sees it;

I bought the horn under the impression, and hopes, that I could do the same musical fluidity that was granted with the bell use. With Christmas’ events of the Bell mini game and the release of the temporary and Perma bell, you allowed players to interact with the community in a fun loving way (please excuse those who would use this power for trolling or evil). The bells smoothness set a standard that should be met across any and all instrument releases in guildwars present and future. Without this standard the players ability to interact with the game and each other (the community) is greatly limited, and inhibits things such as bell/horn duets or even other bigger and better future musical endeavours.

~Lynx

It’s been a while since this topic was added, but I’d like to add my voice to this thread as well. These in-game musical instruments are amazing, and would be even more if the time delay was removed.