Somehow the Well of Anguish is my favorite new "weird" location in #GuildWars2 .. even though it's minuscule they decided to fill it with functional water
You can swim in it, fish in it but can't put a skiff on it.. yet
It is fine. It also challenges players to be creative and patient in solving the obstacles to reach places.
It is why, many of us core #GuildWars2 players often recommends for new players to play the core game without gliding and any mounts even if they can unlock it already. This teaches the players how #GW2 works, especially when it comes to jumping puzzles and hard to reach places.
Oftentimes, in Guild Wars 2 at least, maps and puzzles made with flying in mind, were made similarly the way the early maps (without mounts) were made: make it very challenging that will require the player to be creative and fire up all those neurons in their brains.
And gliding is a perfect halfway through full-blown flying (as #WorldOfWarcraft offers). You still have to be creative and use those neurons.
To sideline, GW2 doesn't exactly have a full-blown flying mount like #WoW. The next step in “flying” after gliding, is the Gryphon. It's very fast “gliding” mount. Like gliding, Gryphon mounts work best when you are up high, so you can enable its speed mode (which is technically the fastest in the game).
Then the Skyscale mount is the best flying mount in GW2, which is still not a full-blown flying mount. You can't just fly all you want, you still have to find ways to climb because the Skyscale's stamina is limited. The higher you go, the faster it is consumed, and the less the Skyscale can store.
If #Palia will introduce something similar to GW2's mounts, then gliding is a very good start to practice. Just like in GW2, gliding was the first form of flying before the Gryphon and Skyscale were introduced.
So, yes, it is good to have gliding. It is also a good sign that the devs will not introduce a full-blown flying mount the way WoW did.
If you use the #GuildWars2 map tiles I've uploaded the new Nayos map to my site. The update contains quite a bit more tiles because they added ink splatters and mist to the background layer.
im so sad, condi willbender looks like its bringing longbow now and i need the mythic longbow skin but i need like 80 more black lion statuettes, that's like $75
'Commander of You Heart' a GW2 fanzine is out now! Free to download, it's 200+ pages of art, writing and comics about that dragon-cycle-ender we all love to play. Check it out and share it with your friends! ♥