Now that this gliding has been out for a while I can say following things:
The good:
- It’s a lot easier to reach your zerg now. It’s faster, easier and cliffs arent a riddle anymore.The bad:
- Not everyone has Heart of Thorns. Not everyone can glide. It means, that newer players and people that want to try wvw automatically see the zerg gliding away from them. I don’t think it’s that enjoyable for them.- The ‘We Run Away From A Fight Aspect’, i think thats self-explanatory. It’s just silly, its so much easier for the enemy team to disengage from a fight now.
- I actually thought it was good that people had to fight their way through the masses of players and go to the portals of their towers. With the gliding, anyone can easily glide into their tower, bunker tons of siege in there and it’s honestly just… kind of annoying to me, I don’t know if others feel like that about it like I do.
I’m sure I’d be able find more stuff, but this was all I could think of right now.
They can disengage from a fight if they’re near a cliff and decide to glide off… but most battles are not fought near any cliffs.. at least not many. In all the battles I’ve been in since gliding in WvW I haven’t yet seen a big fight break up because one side decided to run away and find a cliff to jump off of. You simply can NOT just jump up in the air and glide away/fly. You need something to jump off of. This whole idea of people gliding away from a battle simply does not exist, although seeing a group jump off the cliff by Garri and other places to get away from a blob coming at them is a different story.
Yes we can get into some towers by gliding, if we own the territory close enough to them to do so. That does NOT give any special advantage to extra supplies for siege so I’m not sure what that has to do with being able to bunker down a tower or keep. We could bunker them down before and gliding hasn’t made that easier or harder.
Over all from what I can see on the servers I’m on and the servers we fight, most people are having a lot of fun taking advantage of this new skill. It will easily pass a poll if/when it comes out.
As for those who don’t pay for the game, I have to say “sorry but you get what you pay for”. Not being mean.. it is what it is.
As I have told my kids for over 3 decades now… Life isn’t fair and never will be. Suck it up, figure out how to make it the best you can.. move on.
heya! yeah well, the flying away thing happened in bay quite often, since there is the cliff with the water. I honestly don’t think it’ll get many new fresh players into wvw when there’s gliding, I know many people that are thinking of buying the game but want to test out everything first.
I know what you mean, but to me it just feels out of place that gliding is in wvw now. It’s been fun, yes, but not always. I liked it better without gliding.
I wanted to change my PvP armor as well, to condi, didn’t see it in the mystic forge either (unequipped and all the right materials to change it)