Removing Assassinate was a mistake

[Raikai]

The reason why you died wasn't because of the lock, people need to stop blaming the game for their own mistakes.

The animation lock prevented me from moving out of AoEs in time in the past, especially on new fights where I was still learning the telegraphs. Unless you're suggesting that what really kills people is their inability to predict that an AoE will spawn right when Assassinate locks you from moving away from that.

[Kolsykol]

The animation lock prevented me from moving out of AoEs in time in the past, especially on new fights where I was still learning the telegraphs. Unless you're suggesting that what really kills people is their inability to predict that an AoE will spawn right when Assassinate locks you from moving away from that.

What I am saying is that the animation lock was extremely short, if you got hit by an AoE because of it then it wasn't because of the animation lock it was because you didn't know the mechanics and used it when it was already too late.
There's not a single AoE in the game that the lock would get you killed specifically because of it, they just simply don't happen that fast.
If you got hit by it then it was because the AoE '' cast '' was already in progress and going through when you pressed the button and you most likely wouldn't have dodged it to begin with.

I think that what really happens in these cases is that people get hit by it and they feel dumb and blame animation locks when in reality they would've been hit regardless.

[Satarn]

Unless you're suggesting that what really kills people is their inability to predict that an AoE will spawn right when Assassinate locks you from moving away from that.

I mean, yes actually? There is no such thing as random AoE in this game, the fights are entirely scripted. Even slightly random things are just "at timestamp xx:xx, execute either A, B or C out of the set" type of stuff at most. So yeah, you should be able to predict when you may have to move the Assasinate in your rotation in order to not be killed and that was part of the fun in the ability (along with the TCJ lock). It was something to play around.

And yes, of course in your first time/few times in the fight you will not know it that well yet and may eat that AoE, but... it's the same for every other mechanic you are still learning to execute.