New Legendary Focus: The Binding of Ipos [Preview Window]

[Roksiel.6123]

I love it but I don't understand why all the new weapons are so big. They look ridiculous. =/

[Hesacon.8735]

I like the idea of it in combat, but when stowed it has some serious clipping issues with the character model.

[intox.6347]

@Roksiel.6123 said:I love it but I don't understand why all the new weapons are so big. They look ridiculous. =/

Exactly.... first what i was thinking.... nice but too big.And if you have time, check new raid staff " Oblivion" ... nice but also too big.

[Emprer.7256]

any visual effects with skills?

[Zephyra.4709]

@Moonlit.6421 said:Veigar cosplay here I come

Is that a short joke?

[Moonlit.6421]

@Zephyra.4709 said:

@Moonlit.6421 said:Veigar cosplay here I come

Is that a short joke?

This guy gets it >w>

[Vavume.8065]

Purple glow again ... what a surprise... /s

[Altosk.8492]

This is pretty much velvet crowes daemon arm desgin with a book added.

[Jojo.6140]

I really like the claw, not so sure about the book though. Might look a bit strange if it is constantly floating in front of you.

[Demented Yak.6105]

I made a minstrel less than a month ago.

I much prefer this one.

[florian.3258]

I wanna have this focus. I like these Effects very much. I dont know whats wrong with the people who dont like it...

[Blood Red Arachnid.2493]

It is very cool looking, but also it is a bit... huge?

[moonstarmac.4603]

Makes me think of Meliodas, the Dragon Sin.

[Super Hayes.6890]

Seriously, did the final inspection on this one lack a final preview on an actual character? It looks amazing.... except that my character would fall over carrying it. The run animation should be your character dragging it on the ground with both hands while looking over his/her shoulder to see where they are going...

[Illconceived Was Na.9781]

@Justine.6351 said:What the fragility is that ugly claw thing? Remove please? Just my thoughts on preview after I saw stars from laughing so hard at how badly focus players got trolled by it.

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ANet Chelsea

One of the problems I had to tackle

was how to give you a different hand. Spoilers: I didn't. I covered yours up, hence the large size of the claw - it has to fully encompass your hand. It's not your hand anyway, it's a magic demon hand. Also, don't let the preview window fool you, it's not actually accurate size in there (though it sounds like you crafted it).

When the book is on my hips my hand on that side just goes in it and never comes back out...it just bothered me somehow...

Believe me, it bothers me too; even more so since it's my creation and I want it to be perfect! This was yet another problem I had to deal with and it ended up being something I could not solve. Since I can't move the arm I'm limited to moving the book around and messing with the size.

The book actually does scale down and it squishes flatter while on your hip to help a little, but no amount of scaling or squishing would remove the clipping on some races unless you want a book for ants. Scaling it down also presents its own set of issues so the final result you see was the best solution.

I tried everything.

These are problems I deal with every time I make hip stowed weapons and there are quite a few others that share this issue. Making weapons is a game of compromises and it's an art to even get things to look as good as you end up seeing them in game. Game development in a nutshell.

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Other comment (not related to the 'claw' effect)

So that's why firebrand didn't get real tomes.

ANet Chelsea

It was not. I came up with the idea for and made the focus, and I work independently from the skills and balance team. The focus was not designed with tomes in mind, and guardian tomes were not unused because of the legendary. The weapon went through several iterations and eventually landed on a book, and when it came time to figure out how the character would hold it I didn't want to have to resort to having the character just holding a strap on the binding like other book focuses. I wanted something unique and awesome, remembered guardian tomes, and continued from there. It took a lot of problem solving to get it to work at all (weapons work differently from spells like the guardian tomes, not to mention all the other animation and art work that had to be done for it) but eventually /u/anet_mattp and I figured it out! It has a lot of crazy stuff going on behind the scenes that we hadn't ever done for weapons before.

That said, it was a nice bonus for me to get my tome back in a roundabout way and I hoped you guys would be happy with it too! :)

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[OriOri.8724]

Not the biggest fan of the claw, but the book itself is amazing. And I can overlook the claw for the book.

[Sarge shot Grif.6450]

I made this and I love it, using it on my mesmer, guard and reaper at the moment.

[Umut.5471]

Finally some dark themed, necrotic legendary :) I would craft this for my necro, but focus isn't a choice of mine.If they overhaul focus skills, I can craft one.

[Curunen.8729]

@moonstarmac.4603 said:Makes me think of Meliodas, the Dragon Sin.

They should have given Spellbreaker a focus. xD

[Khisanth.2948]

The scaling seems like it was made for Asura

[Ayumi Spender.1082]

The problem I have with it is

1. I don't like the big claw hand and how it keeps moving like that.
2. I don't like how it's only purple. Making it not work with really any look for me personally unless it's purple oriented.
3. Not a fan of it staying on the side like that. Looks kind of silly in my opinion and think a book that big should be on my back.
4. The only class I could see me ever using it on is Necro, but because it's an offhand weapon and I like my Torch kind of puts it under the "Eh...." category and it's not a goos substitute to the Torch in attack choices.

But I'm super picky to all the legendaries though. Don't see any legendaries or ascended skins that I personally like.Many exotics? Yes.

[bart.3687]

I love the book and I'd totally work for this legendary if that horrid claw didn't exist. It makes the weapon much uglier and less flexible for different styles imo.The plus is that I won't have to go through the crafting process, it's a torture to me. :grin:Waiting to see gen2 scepter now, wondering if it's gonna be better than my beloved Meteorlogicus.

[PopeUrban.2578]

I dig it. It's unique, eye catching, and isn't lit up live seventeen suns formed from the remains of an interstellar fireworks factory.

If I had the patience to build a legendary, this is one of the few I'd actually build.

[Draco.9480]

I think it's a cool sick focus but there's 1 problem, the book and hand are too big and the book clips with the hands too much. make it smaller please!

[Doppelganger.7804]

Can anyone tell where that light-thingy from its back comes? Ty