Am I the only one bothered by gliding?

[RiceisNice]

*rolls in with dragon kick*
*rolls out with dragon kick while making a smooth 180 degree turn*

Bard also suffers a bit of gliding when it comes to windbite. With how the animations are, gliding is going to be inevitable. Trying to slap on seperate movement from waist down/up with the animations we have now are...just going to look weird. It'd require complete animation redos, and I'm sure most of us would rather them make meaningful content for the game.

[Nahaara]

I was just playing Archeage and reading the title made me confused for a second...

[Zaft]

Correction, latency was horrible.

I think you misunderstand what they meant. In 1.0 you had to finish the full animation before you could move again. That means if you were doing a long animation attack and something like Eruption spawned under your feet, you were simply SOL. You had to memorize the timing of attacks and know how long you had between each so you wouldn't get caught with your pants down.

[Parodine]

Just for reference, they're even further lowering animation locks on Dragoon's jumps because of how much animation lock gets people into trouble. People need to be able to move at will the majority of the time for the mechanics in this game.

If that means a little gliding, then I'll take it.

[Dotsusama]

I love gliding. I don't know how it looks on other people's screens, but I love dealing the last attack (or close to it) on a mob as warrior and then sliding on through with the motion and being ten steps toward the next pull before my GCD is complete.

I am 100% sincere. With good timing, it looks awesome~

[Gralna]

am I the only one excessively bothered by the character gliding around

yep /10char

[Darkoon]

I think you misunderstand what they meant. In 1.0 you had to finish the full animation before you could move again. That means if you were doing a long animation attack and something like Eruption spawned under your feet, you were simply SOL. You had to memorize the timing of attacks and know how long you had between each so you wouldn't get caught with your pants down.

Nope, I am not misunderstanding at all. Animations took longer than necessary to start depending on how much lag you had.

[Lithera]

In XI certain animations (mostly for buffs) would simply cancel if you started moving during them. Only WS animations would lock you in any way usually. Animation cancelling makes things look real choppy in high speed fights like XIV though so it's whichever you feel is the lesser of two evils. Complete the animation while moving or have motion cut animations off completely if you move at all.

[Xoriam]

As the title says, am I the only one excessively bothered by the character gliding around (especially melee characters) while using skills? I know this was brought up in the past n I'm not sure why it bugs the heck out of me. It looks PvP just embarrassing to watch imo.

No you're not the only one.

I definatly miss the weight from 1.0
But! on the other hand I do not miss the latency/extremely long reaction time for the UI input.

[MortalWare]

One specific thing which bugged me that I remember mentioning during beta was how your character spins on the spot when using right click to turn with a mouse. There is no little shuffle of the feet or anything, you simply spin on the spot like a stiff piece of furniture.. or something.