Guild Wars 2

Weapon: “The Crossing” (staff)

Profession: necromancer only

So this bug got reported yesterday in the “[March] Issues with character art, weapons, or armor?” thread by Aveneo.2068 but since anet asked us to create “individual specific threads” i’ve created a new one.
This happens with every race. Basically the “black scythe” animation is not correctly aligned with the staff.
This is the bug report made by Aveneo.2068:

Aveneo.2068:

Weapon: The Crossing
Class: Necromancer
Character: Charr Female (not sure if this matters)
Issue: The black ‘scythe’ is not properly aligned and needs to be angled a few degrees closer to the staff so the bottom end flows around the ‘arm’ portion of the weapon.

This thread deserves a bump. Are we the only 2 players who have noticed this bug?

Bump. My eyes bleed every time i see the animation. This staff is just too beautiful it deserves perfection.

Bump. A solution would be a rotation by 180 degrees of the staff while wielded, since i suppose the “black scythe” is a standard animation and cannot be changed for this staff only (not sure). This might fix the bug.

I’m guessing most people aren’t really bothered by it. I actually think it looks fine and I just screenshotted my char using it a couple weeks ago. It looks great, I even made one of the shots my phone’s lockscreen background.

(human female)

Kyllaa.1385:

I’m guessing most people aren’t really bothered by it. I actually think it looks fine

More likely they haven’t even noticed it. And tbh how could that look nice? I mean the black scythe is totally misplaced. I am fine with you being fine with that, but really i doubt you could actually provide a rational reason for your opinion, it’s more something like “i like it cos i like it/i know it’s bugged but i like it anyway”.

Now you’re just being plain insulting!

I don’t think it’s bugged! I was merely responding (btw which further bumps your bump) with a possibility of why “only 2 people” posted about it.

Sure, I could see why you would want it rotated forward slightly, a lamp might need to be in front to see in front lol.

However, the scythe blade is composed of shadow, it’s not actually part of the staff, but a visual “shadowed” representation of a bringer and master of death, not a true to life representation of an actual scythe. Same with focus. We shoot out a deathly, shadowed, pointing hand to strike fear and torment to our victims, the shadowed scythe is just a further characterisation that we ARE a reaper of Grenth!

So, before assuming you think you know anything about how I think, THINK! Don’t generalise me because I said something you don’t agree with.

Besides, if it’s bugged by anet’s standards… Meaning “unintended”… It will eventually get fixed. We might not even hear about it. But 2 people complaining about it doesn’t make it so. If it’s a huge issue for you, try using Final Rest… A proper scythe

If you were on a Mac and playing a ranger, you might be upset that hawks have laser beams… THAT’s a bug!

Kyllaa.1385:

Now you’re just being plain insulting!

Insulting?! Not really my intention. I may agree that’s not the worst bug in this game, probably isn’t even a “bug”…perhaps they designed the staff without thinking about the black scythe animation. And btw that black scythe used to be “bugged”/misplaced on final rest as well, it was even more noticiable.
This staff is not cheap to craft/buy, therefore not many ppl have it; also i’m confident a good part of them don’t even read this forum…if we consider the ones who do, probably only a few of them actually post, and they might not even have noticed the problem.

Yeah, I’ve seen some bugged staves lol, where the shadow scythe appears just above your hand (I think I reported several of those).

But it is true, the population of people on the forums is only a small subset of the player base. So there may not be many at all who have this staff in particular who think this is an issue.

But like I said, if Anet deems it an issue, they will eventually address it… Eventually

Still not fixed. Bump for this beautiful staff.

Still. Not. Fixed. Bump.