Shocker

[mouseno4]

Yeah. The removal of animation lock was a HUGE downgrade.

Animation lock?

[KiriA500]

Animation lock?

You know how a limit break locks your character in place during the duration of the attack? Now imagine every single ability/spell doing that. It was atrocious.

[mouseno4]

You know how a limit break locks your character in place during the duration of the attack? Now imagine every single ability/spell doing that. It was atrocious.

Im a WHM. Groups never let me use LB. "OMG Healer use LB? HAHA!"

[whoopeeragon]

Im a WHM. Groups never let me use LB. "OMG Healer use LB? HAHA!"

Pretty much every ability/spell would lock you in place until the animation finished. And back then, some animations lasted forever e.g. Chaos Thrust was around a 5 second animation in which you could not move from your spot. It was annoying, especially in fights with AoE.

[Ri_ri]

You know how a limit break locks your character in place during the duration of the attack? Now imagine every single ability/spell doing that. It was atrocious.

Now I feel worse for not playing it.

I'm very turned off by melee classes in ARR, due to all the gliding. Doing a Rage of Halone in the air looks ridiculous. Most of other skills too. Wouldn't be a problem if not for all those red circles :\

[Conradus]

Animation lock?

You know how moving while casting cancels your spell? In 1.x you just couldn't move while you were casting. AoEs you have to dodge weren't as omnipresent as they are in 2.0, but there were still a lot of boss fights you had to be very careful when you cast or else you'd be locked in place while an AoE came in to bash your brains out. In the hard Ifrit fight after the first stage, you had to wait until Ifrit had just done a special move to cast, and then you'd only cast one spell, because that's how long the safety window was. He spammed those special moves, so you had a lot of opportunities to cast, but you had to do it at the right point.

[Zeno-Ira]

You know how moving while casting cancels your spell? In 1.x you just couldn't move while you were casting. AoEs you have to dodge weren't as omnipresent as they are in 2.0, but there were still a lot of boss fights you had to be very careful when you cast or else you'd be locked in place while an AoE came in to bash your brains out. In the hard Ifrit fight after the first stage, you had to wait until Ifrit had just done a special move to cast, and then you'd only cast one spell, because that's how long the safety window was. He spammed those special moves, so you had a lot of opportunities to cast, but you had to do it at the right point.

IIRC you could run and cast in 1.0 before they added the combo/job system no? Not sure anymore.

[Pseudopsia]

Animation lock?

This was the thing I hated most about 1.0. It was brutal because you couldn't move your character till the full animation is complete. I got sick of watching the combat log to time my attacks. I wouldn't be playing 2.0 if that was still here.

[Nanga]

This thread was not at all what I imagined it would be, based on the title.