for me it wasn't so much that the animations duration being the main problem, it was the latency. using a ws that lasted maybe around 2-3 secs (taking a good guess) was kinda so so but the lag/latency was terrible which we can all agree. And personally i felt the lag/latency was the killing blow to why ppl wanted shorter ws animations which apparently happened in alpha then lead to ppl saying you barely see what happened along with ppl just spamming a few select abilities.