I genuinely hate the new WAR animation.

[TouchandFeel]

Ah.. apologies. >.< To be honest, I had complete forgot that.. whom the original poster of the ideas were, I mean, as I have memory issues, and it was..
I had to go and check the time-stamps to verify, almost a month ago.

No problem and no apology needed. I just want to make sure that people know that I very much support there being a change to address the axe disappearing concern and that I have actively been providing suggestions on how it could potentially be dealt with since there seems to have been some confusion on that matter with some individuals.

While.. on the other scale, whether or not the action is ST or AoE, does not matter to me all that much, since it would just dictate whether the action is not used much(AoE) or used often(ST), and when I look at the animation itself, I could with ease see it as a normal AoE action, or a ST with too much flair, since the game already has ST action animations that are as big as AoE animations.

I too hope that it is a new ability and not just an upgrade that overwrites an existing one. WAR could definitely use a few more abilities in their kit to give them more to do. I kind of would like it to be an AoE version of Upheaval so that WAR has an offensive gauge dump in AoE situations. At the same time I also think that the animation is so long that it would look weird and get cut off constantly on an oGCD and that kind of then makes me want it to be a GCD ability too. Having a more complex AoE rotation is something that I want, so I could be happy with that as well. Not really much we can do but wait and see what it is and then decide if we like it or not.

[Truen]

Found this:
https://i.imgur.com/nySGF2H.mp4

Seriously, it just hocus pocus' its weapon away starts punching then abra cadabras it back into its hands.

Nothing about that animation says it's a warrior, it has a gigantic axe but instead starts whaling.

I hate it.

He's just spinning in a circle...that's rather uninspired. I agree with you.