Animation Lock: Why don't you like it?

[Zehira]

Because it was annoyed. Ifrit's battle for example, when I was a WHM, someone blamed me that I didn't move away from cracks cause of animation lock. It's what it made them thought I suck. =/

[Tinks]

Because it was annoyed. Ifrit's battle for example, when I was a WHM, someone blamed me that I didn't move away from cracks cause of animation lock. It's what it made them thought I suck. =/

Most of the time, I try not to be this person, but in this instance I just can't help it. If you're on WHM and you couldn't avoid the cracks most of the time, then yes, you did suck. Part of the challenge of that fight was learning to time your spells correctly so that if he did cracks you could move immediately. There are times when you absolutely can't wait to cast, and those are the few times I'll grant that you're going to get hit.

While I hated how long animation lock was, I like the idea in general way better than GCD. Just personal preference. But in every game you learn to play with what you're given. If you can't and the majority of other people can (meaning game not broken), well, then you DO "suck" relative to them.

[Zehira]

Most of the time, I try not to be this person, but in this instance I just can't help it. If you're on WHM and you couldn't avoid the cracks most of the time, then yes, you did suck. Part of the challenge of that fight was learning to time your spells correctly so that if he did cracks you could move immediately. There are times when you absolutely can't wait to cast, and those are the few times I'll grant that you're going to get hit.

While I hated how long animation lock was, I like the idea in general way better than GCD. Just personal preference. But in every game you learn to play with what you're given. If you can't and the majority of other people can (meaning game not broken), well, then you DO "suck" relative to them.

Hello Tinks,

While I can agree with you how suck I did while being stuck during animation lock. Myself, I did Ifrit's battle many times and 80% of time I was a WHM and 20% of time I was a WAR (never tried a BLM tho) and I have my Ifrit's blade. With animation lock, no matter how good or bad you play, it called "trick." Like, when I started casting spell right before the floor was cracking.

Why can't we do like XI where you are allowed to interrupt your casting a spell?

[SkyeWindbinder]

Why can't we do like XI where you are allowed to interrupt your casting a spell?

Because that would make too much sense.