Quote Originally Posted by HikariKurosawa View Post
I wonder if it's possible to make iaijutsu behave like stardiver in reverse. If you don't know, stardiver has a strong animation lock that absolutely prevents it from being weaved with any other oGCD. If they applied a strong animation lock to the sheathed part of iaijutsu and then made it free up the moment you release it and kept the gcd timing upon release, they could preserve the feel of the ability while also removing the cast bar.

I don't think there is a skill expression to it and I don't think it is the only way to achieve the feeling the cast bar provides.
thank you! for having a polite take toward the discussion compared to these other jerks telling us to quit what we love over a petty disagreement between views. and this is exactly what i was saying in my original post is that there are way better ways of expressing a stylized sword swing or slash then just standing stone faced like a statue waiting for a fly or some other creature to move towards us etc.
the whole point of a Ronin like Samurai is to get their job done quickly and with efficiency the code of "honor" was something done by the traditional lord/house serving samurai and this is even addressed in the samurai job questline our hero/heroine learns from our mentor Musosai that sometimes its more important to forge your own path or own way not to be tied down by traditions and this i believe is also further explained in the lore of how samurai powers up itself because we essentially hone our techniques and make them our own.