SE please change the not-heavy-at-all feeling of DRK attacks

[Rampage]

Please do not change DRK animations, they are awesome. I agree with an earlier post, we are not supposed to be RAWR ultra-STRONG beast tank, if you look at the animations its all about imbuing the sword with dark energy to slash, even blood weapon looks like there are glyphs and things appearing on the sword. Our thing is more of an evil-ish channeling magic through a big-ass sword thing.

[Kydi]

Only thing I'd like to see is soul eater and power slash swapped. The hand gesture/rip thing at the end of power slash makes more sense to me as soul eater, and a big jumping double slash as power slash.

[FenHin]

I find it fine as it is

[Ditto]

yes, forgot about all adventurers are stupidly strong or have a headcannon excuse for being able to heft a blade of that size. we are all secretly Guts.

Why do people expect realism in a video game that's not about realism?

[saber_alter]

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you don't need power behind a weapon to look bad-ass. your already swinging a large weapon like it's an extension of your arm. gld/pld is flashy because of their background (fighting in an arena), and mrd/wars are swinging a top-heavy axe (which is going to have impact one-way or another). even then drk abilities have a crapton of effects on them anyway. i dun want more.

also delerium is our strongest combo when we don't use DA with soul eater. it beats our power slash combo by 10 potency and un-da'd soul eater combo by 20.

Why do people expect realism in a video game that's not about realism?

hardly, i'm simply irked away from Ultra-greatsword designs.

[Kallera]

Most of drks moves look fine, though if it were up to me i'd change the first attack in our combo. That wierd stab seems wierd.

[Ruination]

Only thing I'd like to see is soul eater and power slash swapped. The hand gesture/rip thing at the end of power slash makes more sense to me as soul eater, and a big jumping double slash as power slash.

this, so badass, used so rarely

[Nico_Of_Awesome]

I really think the issue is more sound effects than animations. The animations feel fine and feel powerful, but the SFX behind them do feel very light. So signed at least for SFX reasons.

[Nektulos-Tuor]

They are pretty much fine as is. Besides the way you hold your weapon, I would like that for Samurai instead. Everything else is fine. =) I don't see why people want to change soul eater, because honestly why would the lifetap move be the shoot thing? If anything it would be the one it has! =)

It looks perfect if you use a proper sword. Two handed swords are actually unlike fantasy likes to believe... not very heavy.

[Krissey]

To be fair, it would be hard to make attacks feel as weighty as axe hits that turn you into a fiery spiral or crack the ground.

That said, DRK abilities do look kinda floaty. I was thinking about it the other day, and I think the problem with them is that the pace is so even. As an animator myself, when everything's happening at a steady pace, it looks smooth and uncontentious. But when the first part of an attack is super quick and the last part slows down, it looks savage and satisfying! Perhaps they could speed up the animation lead-ins but leave the particle effects for that percussive oomph?

Just like Butcher's Block! you have the two quick strikes, then the slow big super hit. It's like thwap thwap ----- BOOM!