Guild Wars 2

Yeah, the howling is still ongoing at night when you unsheathe it with a skill. Honestly, that’s the only thing that is noticeable about it as a legendary…it’s more of an auditory annoyance to others than anything visual.

It would be fair for all the legendaries to have footfalls that all last for the same amount of time. I think that would make everyone feel compensated for their choice in legendary. Minstrel and FSP are still without footfalls, and Howler’s footfalls last a fraction of any other type.

I’m pretty sure, with the exception of Rodgort’s fire footsteps, Arenanet has slacked off and doesn’t really care about improving the offhand-only legendary weapons. They’re kindof in a lower-priority list for them, just above aquatic legendaries. But, at least we don’t have The Minstrel…then we’d really have some complaints.

That’s a good point, though…the ranger’s regular skill #5 is more impressive and appropriate than the new effect they added to the warhorn. It’d be easy to confuse that as part of the warhorn’s list of effects.
Hopefully they give the howler an update to make it look at least somewhat interesting in the daytime….gotta keep hoping!

The new effect added to the Howler seems a bit wasted on certain professions, and it looks like like an afterthought in comparison to the updates to other legendaries.

I have one on my necromancer, and the skill #4 and 5 effects overshadow the legendary’s new wolf image effect. The howler already has a variety of effects, including the howling and glowing at night, the movement of the head, the water effect on the body, and the water footsteps. Rather than add another effect that is only slightly noticeable (depending on the profession), wouldn’t it be better to work on improving something that already exists, like the footsteps? Compared to almost every other legendary, the footfall effect is extremely brief and unimpressive. I think it would have been better to make an update similar to the Quip, where the footfalls were dramatically changed and made noticeable.

I’m probably one of the few people who even put a Howler on their necromancer, so I’m sure I’m in the minority with this complaint, but hopefully it’ll be considered in a future update.

I realize there’s a very slim percentage of people who have the Howler legendary warhorn, but I’ll ask the question anyway in the hopes that someone does have it or knows someone with it who is experiencing the same bug.

The warhorn emits a fog aura around the user’s body when unsheathed, but ever since today (presumably with the patch update), the fog/mist aura no longer shows up each time when unsheathed. Maybe 1 in 10 times, it shows up for me. Other players confirmed they couldn’t see the aura on my character. At times, one of us could see the aura, and the other could not. Anyone else having this problem or know if this is a result of the most recent patch update (6/13/13)?