Machinist leg animations... cemented to the ground?

[Felis]

Honestly I wouldn't mind this. Sure things would be clunky but I'd get used to it.

so long you don't activate a skill 1-2 seconds before an AoE appear under your feet.

[Jeykama]

Honestly I wouldn't mind this. Sure things would be clunky but I'd get used to it.

You'd die. This animation position lock of Jump is one of the reason DRGs still have a lolgoon rep. Imagine now if every move ogcd and gcd had that position lock.

[Jynx]

That was because it stopped your movement during the skill animation. To move away you had to wait until the animation of the last skill ended.

There was no reason they couldn't have kept the weight without restricting movement. We already ice-skate during most our attack animations. They removed the weight to allow for quicker actions rather than the animation lock.

Battle was also much more slow paced and strategic rather than the frantic button mashing fest we have. That's just my opinion of course.

[Ferth]

After reading the title of the thread I had a mental image of lalafell MCH getting knocked on their butts every time they shoot. I would very much like that to be a thing...

[MilesSaintboroguh]

Heck, we still have big animation locks for LV 3 limit breaks. Nothing beats eating several AOEs you didn't know was coming for you after you revived everyone.

[Tolmos]

Thanks for the responses, all! Now that I know it's intended, the best I can do is try to work with it.

That being the case, I could use some help from the community! What's the smallest gun a machinist can use? Physically small; less rifle more pistol kind of thing? Even if a pistol isn't possible, the closest I can get the better.

[Zari]

Thanks for the responses, all! Now that I know it's intended, the best I can do is try to work with it.

That being the case, I could use some help from the community! What's the smallest gun a machinist can use? Physically small; less rifle more pistol kind of thing? Even if a pistol isn't possible, the closest I can get the better.

Well, off the top of my head I know there is a revolver you can get for PVP medals (though since it is a pvp weapon definitely glamour only in PVE generally.) and the Esoteric weapon is closer to a sawed off double barrel than a rifle

[RiceisNice]

The game's design and pacing isn't meant for having animation locks on everything. It's slower paced than something like WoW, but fast paced enough that having animation locks on skills can be detrimental to both your dps and survivability, either requiring fights/telegraphed to be slowed down (which essentially defeats the concept of a telegraph to begin with), dps checks to be lowered overall, or have mobility skills that act as animation cancels.

[Imoen]

It's a crappy video with me playing like garbage, old, and recording software that was lagging the crap out of me, ultimately crashing, but here lol

It does show off some of the animation stuff though.


https://youtu.be/Fe0uYRqlBuY

[Tolmos]

It's a crappy video with me playing like garbage, old, and recording software that was lagging the crap out of me, ultimately crashing, but here lol

It does show off some of the animation stuff though.


https://youtu.be/Fe0uYRqlBuY

Wow! Those animations look really good in comparison to how they are now. That's pretty awesome to watch.