Dwarven Sphere Chop's a bit slow (as are most other harvesting animations)

Circuitous

I couldn't resist the Dwarven Sphere Chop once I saw it, because I have a fondness for Dwemer constructs (I've been using Razak's Opus since 2014). I finally got to try it out in the field today, and just felt bad for the little thing. I summon it, the wood disappears, and then it swings its blade. It's like I snatched the wood away from it before it got a chance to shine.

And I've noticed this is a recurring issue with pretty much every alternative harvesting animation: Master Harvester just never seems to get properly taken into account. For example, the woodcutting animation I used prior to this, the Karth River Cleave, animates well enough - but then the axe remains in your hand for the full duration of a normal harvest, rather than disappearing when it should. For Icefist Runegathering, the runestone in question will disappear just before the punch makes contact. With Gyrfalcon Gathering, Bound Pickaxe Strike, and others, your upper body gets stuck in the animation even though you already have the materials - this is especially noticeable at survey locations, where harvesting in quick succession causes the animation to loop weirdly.

For each of these, there are previews of the animation for Harvesting and Master Harvesting, so clearly some effort was made to sync the animations up to the different timings properly, but I'm sad to say they've all fallen short of the mark. Any chance of these getting tweaked in the future?

Necrotech_Master

i would agree most of the alternate animations dont work with master gatherer well lol

the one i have that does work fine with it (no overlapping animations or other weird issues) seems to be the one from the order of the lamp crates, the meteor smash one for ore harvesting

i was also very likely getting the sphere chop too because i like the dwemer stuff and just hope they end up fixing it lol

Circuitous

Yeah the Meteor Mining animation seems to be synced up really well, though the upper body animation does linger a bit too long, like with the Gyrfalcon, etc. Doesn't feel as long as the rest, though.

I will say, I still think the Dwarven Sphere Chop is cute and worth getting if you're a construct fan.

This_0ne

the recent animation of harvesting plants with an orc knife is the only one in my memory done properly with a star of Master Harvester

Yudo

Love the Dwarven Sphere chop but it is really chopping when you are done with gathering, a bit disappointing on the animation part. I have the gathering cp slotted.

Necrotech_Master

i got this and really been enjoying it, though the one thing ill note that bothers me more than the animations syncing up is how loud it is lol

fizl101

Its definitely slow, I've collected the wood before it even spins around. A few of the others are strangely slow in that I run off looking like I am practicing for Riverdance with my arms stuck to my sides

Circuitous

I hope it's not too late to bump this and get some more eyes on it.

M_Volsung

I just wish they move it so it doesn't look like it's chopping through your leg.