Guild Wars 2

I really enjoy recording and sharing videos of playing songs on the in-game instruments (harp, bells, and flute), but I’ve run into a bug with the flute animation. After playing for a while, the character goes into their ‘idling with weapon(s) out’ animation, and is stuck in that animation throughout, even though the keystrokes and sound still work.

I’ve tried playing the flute on several characters (different races as well), and in multiple locations, but it does the same thing every single time. It goes back to normal after I stop playing, unequip, equip, and start playing again, but after a while (I suspect after about a minute of playing), they go back to their ‘idle weapon’ animation again.

This example video shows the bug (~1:41); it’s persistent until I quit playing and unequip the flute. On the other hand, while playing a song on the harp, this finished video shows the same thing happening (~1:55) for a second or two, but immediately reverts to the correct ‘playing instrument’ animation.

I know in the grand scheme of things, it’s a minor bug, but it’s totally killing the immersion and is discouraging me from recording video of flute songs. :c

Personally, I love the Bell Choir minigame (I wait with bated breath all year for Wintersday to roll around again just for that alone), but I agree that it doesn’t really make sense to not count Toypocalypse and (especially) Snowball Mayhem for the meta. IIRC, last year there was an achievement for Snowball Mayhem that counted towards the meta; I’m not sure why that wasn’t brought back this year.

As far as the new dailies system goes, I don’t really care for the PvE dailies beyond the Exotic Crafter and Mystic Toilet user ones. However, I’m not sure why they’ve removed the option of doing dungeons as part of the PvE dailies. Under the old system, one of the possible dailies was to run one dungeon path (sometimes story, sometimes exp), which was super-easy to do. Now, if we want a similar PvE daily to the old one, we’re stuck with bloody Fractals. I hate Fractals with a passion. If nothing else, they should bring a dungeon-related PvE daily back, to give the PvE category a bit more variety.

As far as the events-related PvE daily goes, I think they should change it from being map-specific to zone-specific like the gathering daily. Maybe that would help with the whole ‘events are done before I can get to them’ problem? But hey, who am I to say about PvE issues when I’m mostly a dedicated WvW and EotM runner?