Eekasqueak.7850 Posted April 9, 2019 Share Posted April 9, 2019 I had enough statuettes saved to get a couple of gold keys for the skin, got it second try. It's pretty good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emprer.7256 Posted April 9, 2019 Share Posted April 9, 2019 soooo worth it. Tops all 2k gem skins simply bc of the animations. Here's to hoping they keep making premium skins that are worth 2k gems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Batel.9206 Posted April 9, 2019 Share Posted April 9, 2019 Oh, a question - is this skin account-bound on acquire? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randulf.7614 Posted April 9, 2019 Share Posted April 9, 2019 @Batel.9206 said:Oh, a question - is this skin account-bound on acquire?Yes, but you can gift it direct from the gemstore should you want to give it to someone else Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donari.5237 Posted April 9, 2019 Share Posted April 9, 2019 Pro: Absolutely beautiful, dye channels are perfect, bright colors are plausible but not required, fun animations, real sense of personality in those beady eyes, is not an aquatic beast (hmm, this may be a hint that if we get an underwater mount it won't be a new skimmer skill b/c underwater hummingbird just would be ... wrong ... :) ), looks fantastic from almost any angle.Con: Looks funky from the angle the owner will see most of the time, behind and above. The shape is just weird from that vantage. And the wings give me motion sickness. Mild so far, but I won't be parking on my skimmer bird, I can feel my tummy tilting towards nausea when I do. A full blur like a RL hummingbird would likely be less of a problem for me but then you'd never see the wings at all and it would look really odd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Batel.9206 Posted April 9, 2019 Share Posted April 9, 2019 @Randulf.7614 said:@Batel.9206 said:Oh, a question - is this skin account-bound on acquire?Yes, but you can gift it direct from the gemstore should you want to give it to someone elseShoot, don't have the gems for that...darn it. Ah well. Thanks for answering! :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dezzie.5903 Posted April 10, 2019 Share Posted April 10, 2019 This skin is not only adorable but gorgeous. I'd pay twice the amount if it also over-layed the Raptor skin and I don't think that's much of a stretch. After all, the Raptor's big move is to jump far and wouldn't you expect a flying bird to "jump far"? ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perisemiotics.4579 Posted April 10, 2019 Share Posted April 10, 2019 @Randulf.7614 said:(...) It hovers above the ground higher than the skimmer (...)Not really... one key functionality of the Skimmer is to be able to go over obstacles on endurance so the base hovering height has to be fixed or the system breaks, whatever the skin - this one just has the half front upstanding but the tail is the fixed reference for that constant base height. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PlagueParade.7942 Posted April 10, 2019 Share Posted April 10, 2019 Best mount skin ever! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiviana.2650 Posted April 10, 2019 Share Posted April 10, 2019 im not even going to bother with chests, i have never got anything from them like a skin or something. Just the same things all the time things i dont use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zenith.7301 Posted April 10, 2019 Share Posted April 10, 2019 I don't like how the character is positioned near the end of the tail. Kinda ruins the skin for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chichimec.9364 Posted April 10, 2019 Share Posted April 10, 2019 It's a beautiful skin and I like the way it changes the look of a mount so completely. Still, even if I got it from a BLC drop I'm not sure I'd use it. The skimmer is my second most used mount and I jump on it whenever crossing water, extensive swampland or quicksand in the desert. To me, a hummingbird doesn't fit those uses as well as a regular skimmer does. Even if this particular one doesn't work for me though, I still like this kind of experimentation with different looks and am looking forward to seeing more skins for the other mounts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DietPepsi.4371 Posted April 10, 2019 Share Posted April 10, 2019 Looks weird to me. Proportions seem off, like how massive and fat the tail is, but it gets really skinny around where the saddle is, like it's being squished. Humming birds also typically have short tails, not long fat ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Handsel.2891 Posted April 10, 2019 Share Posted April 10, 2019 It's nice. I haven't seen them in game yet, though. Imagining 10+ of these humming around me gives me a bit of anxiety, but hey, I'd get one, too, if I didn't mind the 2k gems for it.Also, kudos for originality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben K.6238 Posted April 10, 2019 Share Posted April 10, 2019 birdie is too big, send halp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CETheLucid.3964 Posted April 10, 2019 Share Posted April 10, 2019 @"Illconceived Was Na.9781" said:Humming Bird Skimmer Skin2k gems. Also an uncommon drop from new BL chests.Image on Dulfy here and here. I think it's maybe the funnest MountFit they've released so far. (Doesn't even look like a skimmer!)Well done.It's a fine mount. Not for me but I like it. I just hate that by existing it almost confirms we're never getting skimmers that can go underwater. :pensive: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randulf.7614 Posted April 10, 2019 Share Posted April 10, 2019 @"Ben K.6238" said:birdie is too big, send halpThat grey came out nice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cragga the Eighty Third.60 Posted April 10, 2019 Share Posted April 10, 2019 Very happy to have such an interesting and exciting and...less clammy skimmer skin! There is just something about a manta ray beast that is not warm and cuddly (including the pup minis which, sorry to say, immediately put me in mind of live fishbait) so it's good to see something more huggable in the Skimmer lineup.I've been hoarding most of my keyfarming keys for months now in hope of something like this, and was lucky enough to get it on the seventh key, so I still have a hoard for the next cool chest update. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MokahTGS.7850 Posted April 10, 2019 Share Posted April 10, 2019 I like the mount EXCEPT, where the player is sitting on it. It looks odd to be so far back, weirdly on the tail of a bird. It's just not where a saddle would be if you were to ride a large humming bird.https://i.pinimg.com/736x/08/6e/67/086e6710a448932f5f51acc5d7a4090b--cartoon-movies-movie-characters.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dawdler.8521 Posted April 10, 2019 Share Posted April 10, 2019 Poor thing is too fat to even get more than a couple of meters off the ground and people celebrate it while weighing it down even further. The world has gone to kitten I tell you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randulf.7614 Posted April 10, 2019 Share Posted April 10, 2019 Re-did my dye scheme Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trise.2865 Posted April 10, 2019 Share Posted April 10, 2019 @"MokahTGS.7850" said:I like the mount EXCEPT, where the player is sitting on it. It looks odd to be so far back, weirdly on the tail of a bird. It's just not where a saddle would be if you were to ride a large humming bird.https://i.pinimg.com/736x/08/6e/67/086e6710a448932f5f51acc5d7a4090b--cartoon-movies-movie-characters.jpgSitting that high on the bird would interfere with its vision... and require a completely different rig, because it's still a Skimmer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blockhead Magee.3092 Posted April 10, 2019 Share Posted April 10, 2019 I gave my wife the bird and for the first time, she was happy about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randulf.7614 Posted April 10, 2019 Share Posted April 10, 2019 What I am surprised about is that no one seems to have heard yet. It was my understanding that everyone had heard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eekasqueak.7850 Posted April 11, 2019 Share Posted April 11, 2019 @CETheLucid.3964 said:@"Illconceived Was Na.9781" said:Humming Bird Skimmer Skin2k gems. Also an uncommon drop from new BL chests.Image on Dulfy here and here. I think it's maybe the funnest MountFit they've released so far. (Doesn't even look like a skimmer!)Well done.It's a fine mount. Not for me but I like it. I just hate that by existing it almost confirms we're never getting skimmers that can go underwater. :pensive: They're more likely to just introduce a new mount for that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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