DEV REQUEST: PLEASE do not add cast bars to Samurai

[Malzian]

I can see them adding a cast bar to the SAM's "charge and release skill", like the one shown in the video, but I doubt any other skills would have it. Personally I'd rather have a cast bar than an animation lock for that - at least you can move and cancel the skill rather than die due to animation lock.

From the trailer the skill seems to have a longer animation than any of DRG's jumps. We'll have to wait and see what they do with it, but I wouldn't complain about having one skill with a cast time, as long as the other skills do not.

I agree with this. With the way the video looks your normal attacks don't seem to have "cast times" associated with them, only the burst-damage finishers seem to. This would be consistent with the concept of a Samurai gathering Ki to do a particularly potent attack. As long as the cast time does not cause you to lose more that 1 GCD it should be fine if the damage is significant enough to trivialize that GCD.

[Nominous]

They will have a cast, or some variation (hold the skill button, or a long animation lock). The last thing we see the Samurai do in the trailer is hold a charge for about 3 seconds before unleashing it. Everything up until that point was a weaponskill (or at least, they seem to invoke the GCD)- You can tell because of the aura coming from the character during activation. The last hit has no ability, OR weaponskill aura. To be fair, there's no cast aura either, but I still think whatever it turns out being, will be functionally similar.

[Stitches1974]

Even though Bard has an oGCD critical to its rotation that has a cast bar and so clips the GCD...?

Speak English and not Savage raid speak. Seriously, I have no Idea what you said.

I will just say that I have no issue with the BRD rotation and that I do have issues with a MCH rotation.

[Risvertasashi]

Speak English and not Savage raid speak. Seriously, I have no Idea what you said.

I will just say that I have no issue with the BRD rotation and that I do have issues with a MCH rotation.

Bard has an oGCD skill, one of those skills you use between your GCDs. Except it also has a cast time, so it blocks you from using GCDs by the time your GCD skills are ready.

Of all the crude changes to bard that one struck me as the most obnoxious.

[Omegakiyohime]

I'd rather have cast bars than animation locks on the "charge and release" skills.

[Ghastly]

I'd rather have cast bars than animation locks on the "charge and release" skills.

Any reason why?

Cast bars make skills feel like magic and not really like attacks to me so I rather animation lock.

[Stitches1974]

Bard has an oGCD skill, one of those skills you use between your GCDs. Except it also has a cast time, so it blocks you from using GCDs by the time your GCD skills are ready.

Of all the crude changes to bard that one struck me as the most obnoxious.

All bard attack skills have a cast time with minuet on, with the exception of bloodletter , sidewinder, straighter shot proc, and misery's end. Either I don't see what you're talking about as an issue or I've gotten used to it and does not click to me as being an issue.

[Omegakiyohime]

Any reason why?

Cast bars make skills feel like magic and not really like attacks to me so I rather animation lock.

I don't mind a differing playstyle for the new melee class and I'd rather just jump out of a cast than die.

[ManuelBravo]

I would think that they have some cast bar , technique bar rather. After all were is the dramatic attacks :P

[Neri]

If there's animation lock, I would say that samurai will become the new norm of lolsam over loldrg for tanking the floor.