Animation Lock: Why don't you like it?

[Klefth]

No matter how good of a job they do with animation blending, stuff like Spirits Within, Ring of Talons, Doom Spike, Goring Blade or any PGL/MNK WS will make absolutely no sense at all. Seriously, I'd love to see how they'd manage to do that just with Spirits Within and Doom Spike. I wanna see those two while running backwards, because I can't even imagine how that would work at all.

And that's just from an aesthetic point of view. Being able to do any move at all while moving around without a care in the world will be seriously broken. You can't just dodge and perform your most powerful move at the same time, that's pretty ridiculous.

And while they're at it, why don't they remove casting times for any sort of spells altogether? That would certainly make everything much faster and fun!

there is a difference between a gameplay mechanic which feels like a bug (like animation lock), because it did not work accuratley, especially for mages. and a gameplay style.

have you seen what happened to casters in GW2 or TERA doing that? they spam 1 spell over and over every second and almost doing no damage.

i say it shouldnt become one of those action hack and spam games out of there, because it is still a final fantasy game. your matter of taste is badly just saying.

Wow... I guess some people are just really, really dense... I guess next time I decide to be sarcastic, no matter how painfully obvious it is, I'll have to throw something like [SARCASM]this[/SARCASM] in between...

Of course I didn't mean that... your ideas regarding animation look and it's removal sound just as crazy to me as that. I play melee classes mainly, and the removal of animation lock would make it just way too simple. It'd be ridiculous and broken.

For casting and buff animations, it's alright, I agree that it should be removed for that, but removing it from weaponskills, especially the stronger ones, is ridiculous.