PETITION to remove the Animation Lock!

[Alex073088]

Animation lock on the scholar that was introduced in shadow bringers is an absolutely horrible design choice that has made healing with the fairy incredibly clunky, unfun, and less effective.

[Absurdity]

Animation lock on the scholar that was introduced in shadow bringers is an absolutely horrible design choice that has made healing with the fairy incredibly clunky, unfun, and less effective.

This is however less of an issue with animation lock and more of an issue with the entire SCH design and with how the fairy functions. The animation lock on the fairy essentially means that the abilities are just oGCDs for the SCH, problem there is that you do not have enough weave slots for all those oGCDs without using Ruin 2 and multiple uses of Ruin 2 are a massive dps loss without also weaving Energy Drain, of which you, at best, only get 3 per minute and it uses the same resource that your healing does. This creates the problem that SCH has to choose between losing out on dps or losing out on healing.


The other problem is that while you're supposed to use fairy abilities like oGCDs they do not function like oGCDs because they are still cast by the fairy and not your character, leading to a noticeable delay between pressing the button and the ability being executed, which makes the fairy abilities feel sluggish, unresponsive and just not that fun to use.


None of those issues are necessarily a problem with animation lock and more of a problem with how both SCH and the fairy are designed, a lot of that could already be fixed by simply giving SCH better weaving tools and turning the fairy into basically just a cosmetic option while making it's abilities true oGCDs for the SCH.