Guild Wars 2

If you haven’t been aware, the latest patch has screwed the pooch with the flute. Previously, if you pressed a note on the flute, it would play the note, holding it for a set amount of time. This allowed you to play consecutive notes. Now? Hitting consecutive notes cancels it. And with the long as hell cast time, it literally, unequivocally ruins the flute. Please, Anet. I know you don’t always listen to your players, but this fix has bugged the flute. A lot of people paid money for it. This is NOT a fix.

Seconded. Making actual music out of the flute now is a terrible experience, where before it was only lacking a way to silence a note by… say… lifting up the finger on the key like the horn works, or dropping the flute.

It is not only impossible to comfortably play the same note twice in a row, it also cancels the note being played if you change octave and then hit the same number button.

And is it just me, or is the volume of the instruments much quieter than before? Perhaps that was needed with the trumpet, but I can hardly hear the flute at all now.

I also think this makes the flute bad. At first I thought it was just a sound bug, but I found it in the patch notes, and I was surprised that they came up which such a bad idea. They should make an extra button to stop ANY notes, and leave the weapon switch button on and make the stop button on the “Return” skill. Return just isn’t needed, because you already have the weapon switch for it.

This made me sad. I enjoyed hearing people making music with the flute and now I do not expect to hear any flute music again due to this.

Also, linked to your thread in my Living Story Updates Introduced Bugs tracker thread.

I wanted this flute so bad that I eventually convinced myself that if nothing else came out this week that I wanted, I’d buy gems and get it. I’m glad I waited, but now I am so disappointed… I feel like my flute playing dreams have been crushed! Unless the change is reverted I don’t think I’ll be getting one. Please change it back!

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And is it just me, or is the volume of the instruments much quieter than before? Perhaps that was needed with the trumpet, but I can hardly hear the flute at all now.

That could be the new volume control. When I checked it, the setting was rather low by default — I’d say at roughly 20% volume. Most of my other volume sliders are at 50% or more, so player instruments were much quieter than my regular game sounds.

Please revert this change! Playing successive notes on the same pitch is a basic part of many, many melodies – none of which sound right now.

I whole heartily agree with this post. I just bought the flute yesterday and spent basically the whole day practicing songs on the flute. I learned to play a couple songs and was really excited for the guildies to get on today so I could show them, but no, instead I find this.
I’m really disappointed. I can no longer play any of the songs I learned. D’:
This needs to be changed into what it was, where you could play the same note twice. And if need be change the 0 into stopping the notes, since the current skill on 0 is pretty redundant considering the fact that you can just change your weapon to put away your flute.

Wholeheartedly agree also.
Please revert this TERRIBLE so-called fix. The music cannot flow smoothly anymore.

I want my flute to be as it was before the “fix” >_<

i agree 100%

play the same note twice in a row is pain in the … ear … and fingers

please “unfix” the “fix”

Dev response in another thread on this topic (take note, this is why you should not make a new thread for a bug that already has a thread…info is in one place).

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Flute-broken-due-to-note-interruption-changes/first#post2481485