Guild Wars 2

LinseyMurdock.4165:

Hey guys! Very sorry about this. Looks like the Shortbow had been using the Longbow model and I fixed that when I hooked up their new icons to use the correct model file, not realizing that the Shortbow was so different looking from the Longbow (usually the shortbow versions are just a little shorter than the longbow). You are absolutely correct to be bummed out, the Longbow has a lot of majesty that the Shortbow does not. So we are going to adjust the Shortbow model to look a lot more like the Longbow. Very very sorry about this! It was certainly not my intention to nerf your awesome bows. We are working on this fix as I type. It might be too late to get it into our next bug fixing build (today or tomorrow) but it will definitely get into our February build at the latest. Again, so very sorry!

Just wanted to say thanks firstly for posting in a timely fashion, and secondly for listening to us players and fixing up the new skin. I hope we can see this change as soon as possible so I can use my shortbow happily again!

We all really appreciate it, thank you.

I would just like to say again how disappointed I am with the Development team on this decision. The more and more I think about how much time and money I wasted getting this bow the more it frustrates me.

As said, the current skin is worth nothing to anyone, it is ugly at best and completely not worth the 45+ Gold it takes to craft.

I think I speak for all of us when I say we feel we have been cheated out of something we worked extremely hard for. I beg of you guys to redesign the skin to at least be on par with the other corrupted weapons in terms of looks.

Guild Wars 2 end game content is based largely upon the cosmetics of the gear you are able to create or buy. That being said, it is very important to me, as well as many other people, how my gear looks. I would not have crafted the Corrupted Shortbow had I known that the skin had been downgraded to something much less appealing and absolutely not on par with the other corrupted weapons that are available to craft. We are talking about a Shortbow that costs over 45 Gold to craft, and that many people have farmed hours upon hours for materials to create it prior to this patch based entirely upon the skin of the weapon.

I just hope that you will take into account the sort of consequences many of us players went through when the skin was changed . I also hope that you will listen
to the player base and give us a skin which is worth the amount of gold, time, and dedication it takes to craft a weapon like the Corrupted Shortbow, because at the moment, I am an unsatisfied player, and unsatisfied players don’t buy Gems from the Gem Store to support a company they have long stood by.

A smaller version of the longbow skin would even be perfectly acceptable. Adding more Ice spikes and glow effects would also be perfectly acceptable. This would absolutely satisfy the player base who owns this bow and are currently unhappy customers.

I would also like to encourage anyone who has actually read this to post their own opinions on this bow. The more people that respond to this thread the more likely we are to receive a developer’s response or attention.

Agreed, Please hear us ANet and give us a better looking skin so it fits with the rest of the corrupted weapons, this shortbow looks absolutely awful and is not worth anything to me anymore, and I just crafted it after the patch thinking the skin was the same.

I completely agree, I just crafted this bow today without checking threads assuming that the skin didn’t get randomly changed in the patch today. Needless to say, I am EXTREMELY disappointed with what I saw when I put the bow on. I am also extremely furious about this change of skin because the new skin is absolutely AWFUL.

Please guys, make the new skin cooler or revert the changes, this isn’t fair to the players who paid tons of gold or farmed our butts off for the mats to create this once beautiful bow.

I completely agree, I just crafted this bow today without checking threads assuming that the skin didn’t get randomly changed in the patch today. Needless to say, I am EXTREMELY disappointed with what I saw when I put the bow on. I am also extremely furious about this change of skin because the new skin is absolutely AWFUL.

Please guys, make the new skin cooler or revert the changes, this isn’t fair to the players who paid tons of gold or farmed our butts off for the mats to create this once beautiful bow.