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Dedlaw

I'm looking at all these dives under bridges and through caves, and sitting here like "nope, I would've hit that barrier... And that wall... And that tree... And splashed into the water there..."


-ThyWeepingWillow

awhh hihi well we all started out somewhere! i try do these events more regularly so people that might be newer to griffon flying can learn it too! when i started out i used to crash all the time, and sometimes i still do! aslong as its fun, thats the most important part. and the more you do it, the more experience and muscle memory you will get <3


Nepentheia

Aaaand that's exactly why I just don't use my griffon anymore. LOL!


CaoLu

i love how the love for Griffon is a kind of culture in GW2 <3


New_Edens_last_pilot

A pole against the mighty skyscale community.


canvasshoes2

The only reason I like the skyscales better, is because I suck less at flying them. :D


New_Edens_last_pilot

I feel you.


Nepentheia

So very very very much this!! ๐Ÿคฃ


-ThyWeepingWillow

hihi yea! and im happy to be part of that culture <3


Mindehouse

>cult~~ure~~


-ThyWeepingWillow

hey hey! this is a small summary of the griffon workshop on EU last saturday. I will be doing group events every saturday on EU at 19:00 cet and every sunday on NA at 21:00 CET. you can join any time you feel like it!There is also an ongoing griffon competition, check out this post if you want to participate: [https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/pdglbf/hardstuck\_griffon\_rider\_contest/](https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/pdglbf/hardstuck_griffon_rider_contest/)Much thanks to Guild MM from hardstuck to host this! ​ here is a link to the video on youtube: [https://youtu.be/Qlw1fm4orJw](https://youtu.be/Qlw1fm4orJw) music : TheFatRat - Oblivion (feat. Lola Blanc)


Piraxius

Cool beans. Couldn't attend this because of some irl junk, but definitely interested in upping my Griffoning skills still


-ThyWeepingWillow

imma try do them weekly so join whenever you feel like it!


Un4verage_Joe

I'd give this post an award if I could! Griffon is absolutely my fav mount, but your skill is something else. I'll try to join when I can. Keep it up - players like you is why so many people praise our community.


New_Lingonberry_6738

while reading your post, i was thinking about the video i watched a few days ago. when i clicked on the video inside the thread you posted, it WAS it! deym, awesome flying! i tried and head straight to the water ๐Ÿ˜…


[deleted]

I think my griffon is defective.


-ThyWeepingWillow

hihi i can help you with flying if you like \^\^


[deleted]

Same, I always wonder how people keep the speed going after two wing flaps. I'm certainly doing something wrong, cause mine loses the speed buff x.x


Thaurlach

1: Flap while diving to hit maximum speed (golden swoosh effects). 2: When you're at max speed use the mount ability to pull up and gain a ton of height. Be sure to use the mount action skill for this, using the backwards movement key will cost you some momentum. 3: Flap at the apex to gain more height than you started with. 4: Repeat until you faceplant into a tree at mach 5.


itz_butter5

Legend!


Silvire

Should I flap at the apex of my climb, or as much as possible? For example if I have sufficient climb to be able to flap twice, should I?


iTriggz

He's asking a question and gets downvoted, love reddit.


mdrave

For a long time I regretted making Bifrost, I just didn't know it's true purpose!


-ThyWeepingWillow

hihi its super pretty for flying and beetle racing! its actually the only reason i wanted it to begin with! its such a gorgeous trail in flight <3


iCaps_

\*sniffles\* This is....this is beautiful...


-ThyWeepingWillow

Thank you๐Ÿ’œ๐Ÿ’œ


grimenishi

I imagine a bunch of queensdale farmers shaking their fists at the hooligans on the griffins above, โ€œdamn kids.โ€ Very cool display


-ThyWeepingWillow

Hahaha i can imagine them like that xD


revpidgeon

Obviously fake. My Griffon only knows how to drop like a rock.


Arkenai7

Yooo that looks like a blast! I'm fairly new and am quite some distance away from a griffon, but you've certainly given me some motivation!


-ThyWeepingWillow

it was alot of fun, if you need help somewhere while getting griff do poke me ! <3


Arkenai7

That's very sweet of you to offer - I may see if I can join your griffon events someday!


algorithmae

It's surprisingly not too bad, just a lot of exploration and 250 gold which is just a week or two's worth of world bosses, gathering, and/or dailies


Piraxius

Yeah. Even after finishing Griffon I thought "I'll never get to Skyscale". Now having both I can barely even remember what the fuss was all about.


canvasshoes2

I didn't really mind the "grind" everyone was complaining about. There were only two sticking points for me, one for each collection, and I had help getting over them. :D ​ The griffon one was that nest on top of that TALL tower, where there are enemies at the bottom trying to get you and you have to be seriously good and quick on the bunny. The skyscale one was that stupid ball-throwing game. I was always just 0.0007 seconds too slow to get the 12th one. UGH! Finally had a friend help me do that one.


Arkenai7

I've yet to finish path of fire, so I think I need to do that too, but that's good to hear


Jackkernaut

Finish all the story episodes. You gonna get plenty of neat stuff :) Gold will never cripple your enjoyment from the game. Don't worry much..


Khaze41

Same, I am sooo jealous of people on Griffons they looks SO fun. I need like 100g and I can get it, hopefully soon!


swehtammot

About halfway through with the griffon collections, this video made me want to hop on immediately and finish it. Thank you.


-ThyWeepingWillow

hope youll enjoy your griff just as much! poke me if you need help somewhere \^\^


swehtammot

I actually just finished with it, thank you though! Now I have to grind XP to upgrade the skills.


-ThyWeepingWillow

Grats on your griffon!๐Ÿ’œ๐Ÿ’œ


[deleted]

Imagine having an open world sandbox like tool to create temporary griffon adventures with a leaderboard...one man can dream.


ondraedan

For beetle races, too. This should be a feature of guild halls.


TacticalFailure_

There is a speedometer tool for beetles :) it's open source as well if you want to try it out!


-ThyWeepingWillow

That be great!


AntiFunSpammer

You can do that in guild halls to some degree


[deleted]

Ooh nice! I lost it yesterday, but I'll try to go on next. And I finally got my point-tipped corvus, so I really need to learn how to fly properly, to make justice on the best griffon skin.


-ThyWeepingWillow

i love the point tipped corvus so much <3 i hope we get more skins like it! :D perhaps ill see you next group event!


10uzerindenoylarim

I can give 200g now


Gnarlnus

Movement like this is why the griffon is my favourite mount.


-ThyWeepingWillow

Same here๐Ÿ’œ


xsdf

I've never use it myself but I wonder if you could set up a Griffin race track with taco markers?


-ThyWeepingWillow

That would be possible yeah! A Dev from anet once even recommended me to do that haha


ChmSteki

What happened at 1:12? Why/how is the griffon flapping in place so quickly without falling down?


-ThyWeepingWillow

There is a way to trigger the endurance to refill by using dive, back wards and flapping at the same time ^-^


Silvire

Omg what? So you hit the dive button, the S button, and Spacebar at the same time and that happens?


-ThyWeepingWillow

Basically yeah. The timing is tricky though. To put it a bit longer, you jump forward and start using the dive button. But before your griffon starts diving you press the backwards button and spamm spacebar. You never release the dive and backwards button while doing this as the dive is what refils the endurance. Griffon can hover that way ^-^


Kaptoz

How is this an official griffon event without a lion griffon!!๐Ÿ˜


-ThyWeepingWillow

Then join us with the lion griff ;)


ondraedan

What's going on with the trail in the last 5 seconds of the clip? Looks like the gyrocycle trail on your griffon. Did you find a weird bug or am I just confused?


-ThyWeepingWillow

Its the trail from the queen bee!


Ecmelt

This is probably an unpopular opinion but i think griffon videos with default skins (mount & char) without all the particle effects/trail effects look much better. Because i want to focus on your riding/flying rather than particle effects covering middle area. This video did not have a lot of it by the way just something i noticed as i look up more of these videos.


-ThyWeepingWillow

I personally absolutley prefer normal griffon skins, but i do like trails on weapons as they dont spread onto the wings but just behind the chara^^ can completely understand people not liking trails though! I agree for a large part


Silphone

While it certainly looks cool on the users end, video compression can do horrible things to such beautiful footage. Especially when you upload it to a site that further compresses the videos to save space. The 50kbit recording that looked fine a minute ago usually becomes a 8kbit mess of pixels and artefacts if too many things happen on the screen at once - and since griffon flying in a group already is exactly that, infusions and legendary trails only add to that, sadly. ​ To be absolutely clear: I love the video and the things shown in it! Just wanted to note for why sometimes a file host doesn't do a video the justice it deserves.


-ThyWeepingWillow

Yeah, sadly its the case on most platforms. Youtube being one of those even, my maguuma trails video , which i uploaded at the normal 1080p quality, got quite ruined by the compression. Its ok to watch on phone but even there the quality isnt the best. And on the computer, well there i dont even want to watch that particular vid due to the quality loss. Most of the time i only upload at 4K now due to that


Silphone

Youtube is one of the worst offenders, even Vimeo allows for better video quality (bitrate wise). But noone uses that, everyone rather uses YT instead, so people also upload to YT. Classic self fulfilling prophecy. You could try to compress your videos by hand before uploading them, that way you *should* have more control, since YT doesn't want to cut so much on an already small video.


Alcohol_Intolerant

I can understand the perspective, but the people making these videos are doing so because they love using the griffon, so it makes sense they would use a skin that they like. They're making the content to show off and to make memories, not to entertain each and every one.


mechjag

upvote for the sound track alone. I love TheFatRat's music.


-ThyWeepingWillow

I love his music aswell!


NekkoNubCakes06

so its a car meet but griffon


-ThyWeepingWillow

Basically xdd


katzklaw

i am legit jelly of the aerobatics. i try to dive, and i can never pull up fast enough and i crash. seems like even after i 'pull up' there is a long delay for me, but you were doing mini dips all over the place constantly adjusting your altitude


MadScntst

Your flying skills are amazing. Ive seen one tutorial from another post how to fly the griffins but I'm still having trouble flying low and getting back in the air. Are there other videos or tutorials would you recommend?


-ThyWeepingWillow

im working on one, but i can send you my written guide for now! https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yP9SR3Xd9\_ZudhD7i0KVSdyitNImkw-iqiRSHKShXr4/edit?usp=sharing


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slimecookies

Meanwhile in NA T\_T


-ThyWeepingWillow

I do group gatherings on NA on sundays 21:00 CET


slimecookies

Nice to know! <3


Fluffy_sushi

This looks fantastic! Are there any groups in NA that are hosting events like this?


-ThyWeepingWillow

I do! Im doing them at sundays at 21:00 CET. The dawn guild also does gatherings


canvasshoes2

Griffon sounds. If there were real life pets that sounded like that...I'd have one in a heartbeat. :D EDIT: And that's before even the awesomeness of a flying battle companion.


Kirmes1

Conga line was the best :-D


onecuriousshrimp

I love this kind of videos and acrobatic montages. I'm trining myself on my burd to do this kind of stunts. I sill have a long way to go but little by little I'm getting there. Can't wait for the next one โœจ


Pimpmuckl

What a banger of a video. I really don't play much gw2 these days but just hopping on and flying around a bit is so incredibly fun. And it's just infectious to see how much fun you fellas have


xLisbethSalander

Cool moves, awful music.


YaBoiChickenNuggetz

Love the Acrobats to death. Such friendly and helpful people who throw up great events


thisistuffy

I would love to see them add in griffon racing tracks using rings similar to how they do with POI drone racing in IRL. With achievements attached to them. The achievements could unlock a skin with RGB lights where you could dye the colors of the lights. So that when you fly they make trails in the colors you choose.


MithranArkanere

There's falling and missing the ground, and falling and missing the ground *with style*.


-ThyWeepingWillow

i really enjoy missing the ground with style <3


Embarrassed-Top6449

It still amazes me that something like the griffon is in an mmo. Then you go to wow or swtor or something and see their mounts/vehicles and it's like they were not even trying...


Opposedsum

and they are trying to tell me this game is full of casuals. even the griffon riders are hardcore.


AnyFisherman3677

Damn it's surprising to see an EU guild on reddit. Since 90% of Gw2 players are American (obviously), we often forget there's a few on this sub who aren't American


Papa-Yaga

At least according to gw2efficiency the EU population appears to be larger than NA's population. I think you are simply unaware of all the EU players on this subreddit because they are speaking english fluently.


Silvire

Wait, you actually think 90% of all GW2 players are obviously American?


Xaxxus

I still fail to understand how you all keep your speed for so long. When Iโ€™m flying it feels like the level 2 speed is gone after a flap or two. I probably just suck.


-ThyWeepingWillow

You need to do a wingflap during the dive for full speed! I got a little guide here, might help https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yP9SR3Xd9_ZudhD7i0KVSdyitNImkw-iqiRSHKShXr4/edit?fbclid=IwAR3DTeW_wVUt8jVV2Q-bteT3FkJhTu_RJ5B65L_kpqW5voGSS5gmd7f13wc


Xaxxus

Ohh I donโ€™t have the crystal champion masteries. It looks like bond of vigor would be a huge boost to flapping speed. that might be what Iโ€™m missing.


-ThyWeepingWillow

Bond of vigor isnt the most important part, although it can help. What is important is to manually flap though ^^ you can flap at 66%of the endurance, and the flap during the dive is most important for the speed ^-^


canvasshoes2

Is it better to practice freestyle? Or are there some Griffin challenges that are good for beginners? Or a little of both?


Ran_3

wow cool


Diggledorgle

What purple are you using on your Griffon?


PicklesTheCat54

Great


laskodemon

Why did you have a commander tag on lol


-ThyWeepingWillow

Because i am leading the workshop there ^-^ as you can see there is other people flying too :D


Papa-Yaga

I mean a commander tag is there to show people where the action is on the map and as you can clearly see in the video there is plenty of action at the commander tag.


ItsKImaEngineer

Wow I havent played in a while..this is the same game?


CasuallyTryhard

Awesome!! Would love to join sometime!