#skiffs

I generally have a lot of sounds on low in GW2, mostly just music, environment, voices, and a few other things really low. But I never noticed the background music or the "yaaaaay!" when you hit the speed boost on the plushy skiff before.

Fishing:

it will be available through the first chapter of the story

fishing rods will not break!

How it works: You equip your fishing rod and then apply bait and lure on it from your inventory. When you get a catch, a small interface opens where your goal is to keep your little "background bar" on the moving green bar, and being successful in that for a while fills up an endurance bar underneath, granting you the fish at the end.

Fishing masteries:

faster catches and triple xp for fishing

detects nearby fishing nodes

plus 50 fishing power (increases chance of catching rare fish)

increases cast range

unlocks new merchants who sell you fishing-related stuff

Skiffs:

skiffs will unlock later on, similarly to springer or jackal, by doing hearts during the story

skiffs seem to be dyeable

they will have more speed settings (three, as it was presented now)

a skiff can fit 5 people on it (owner + passengers)

passengers get emotes, and using them fills the skiff's stamina bar (making the skiff able to go at higher speed)

everyone has to sit while travelling, but once you anchor your skiff people can get up and jump around on it like on any platform.

"fishing party": when everyone on the skiff does fishing (and is successful), everyone gets a buff that increases their fishing power.

Skiff masteries:

faster speed

ability to sink approaching enemies

being able to give the skiff a burst of speed

grants additional fishing power

George Blackie Sticks (1843–1938)

Skiffs are an open species that I made! They're custom-made robots on a far-off ringed desert planet named Sterilis.

They have a variety of roles, from deliveries to racing. Depends on what they're built with! Most are scrapped together from old parts.

They have a lot of personalities but they're usually similar to skater punks and adrenaline junkies. They love going fast and doing sick stunts.

Also, they can canonically micspam. They can and will play any sound file they find, at each other, at anyone, at themselves