The animation trouble is especially apparent with DRK right now.

I primarily log in to play DRK in CC, and it seems virtually impossible now to come out of guard without dying.

It used to be that you could have your guard up, and use an action to restore your HP. This does cancel your guard of course, but restoring your HP was a very good way to end guard.

Now you just die because your enemies get their hits in before your HP is restored. It feels very unplayable.