I think the jury's going to be out on the hair until we see it on PTS. The A Pose isn't going to have any animations, and if they're using new hair tech as they said on livestream, i'm going to guess that it animates somehow. It might not come out as spiky as it seems.

Beyond that, I agree that the model is an overall improvement. The fur blending is a lot better. If I were to change anything, it would be the length of the ears (They look more elven than they do canine), and the haunches don't look very paw-like at all.

Looking good otherwise.

Maybe it’s just me, but the hair on the head looks too much like a mohawk. Does any of the new skills styles belt out a snippet of “Achy Breaky Heart” when you use them?

The best way to fix light attack weaving is to not.

There's nothing wrong with having it. Bugs can become features. That's what has clearly happened here.

The should instead continue to offer alternatives.

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Since subclassing and now dragonknight buff I think one bar HA builds need cleave from heavy attacks restored. Because one bars are becoming more and more useless while 2 bar getting stronger, the damage gap between the 2 is growing every update. At least give use the cleave back, the nerf is no longer needed.

That’s the point.
A two-bar setup makes the rotation more difficult and should therefore be much(!) stronger than a one-bar setup.
The same applies to heavy-attack rotations. High APM (weaving) is much more difficult than low APM (heavy attacks) and should therefore be significantly stronger.

It’s as simple as that.

The cleave could return, but it doesnt change the fact that will mean, yet again 1 weapon will vastly outperform all other weapons in a heavy attack build.

But wanting the oakensoul nerf reverted is just disgusting.
Pre nerf oaken is the most op item ever released.

Peoole where doing vAS+2 with 1 tank and 11 oakensorcs and getting immortal redeemer every single run.

People who want oaken buffed complain that subclass builds is so far ahead, (only a handful of builds is) in dps. And still demand dps comparable to trial dummy specific setups using highland sentinel and null arca.

Completely neglecting that oakensoul also turns you into a ranged tank, with unlimited sustain, barely amy APM,and absurd survivability, while subclass builds drops every single defensive buff, speccing into pure damage to be able to do these numbers.

Even the new dk, a breath build will Not vastly outperform a HA build, ive tried hyperioxes breath build, if you are hyper u can parse 138k on it, my best was 127k, usually around 120-125k on a trial dummy in melee range. HA builds can easily compete with this, the whip builds can hit higher, but are much harder to play, not many can perform top dps on this in actual content, and if u go molten whip theres very little cleave. Not to mention in actual 4 man content u cant use trial dummy setups, since DK's does not have herald of the tomr and struggle with getting 7k pen.

The upcomming class masteries will also benefit HA builds. Which will further increase its power, ill give a example, nightlade one, +25% crit crit damage, while also increasing cap by 35%, and people expect to be able to run around with major force with this?

Asking for permanent major berserk, heroism, force, protection and courage, while still be immortal, i dont even know what to say. Oakenbuilds will go back to shitting on any player not pulling top end dps again with 0 effort, a meta we should never go back to, we might finally get rid of arca meta after the class refreshes. Ending back in the moSt braindead and OP meta this game have ever seen i never want to see happen again.

Why does everyone want everything to be fast and easy. Level characters fast, level this fast, that takes too long.... it's an MMO and things - or at least some things - should be a bit of a grind imo. There are other games that provide the quick easy fix, top level in everything almost immediately, etc. This is not that kind of game and I hope it never is.
Antiquities is not much of a grind compared to other things and you can do it when you want, no big deal. Unless you want to be top level in a blink and want the mythic pieces. Welp, that takes a bit of time. And that's ok

The simplest solution is to remove Tome Caches, and just award Tome Points that never expire. I'm confident they'll survive without that one layer of pressure.

Just from a business perspective, support now has to spend their cycles refunding people their caches. That's time that could've been spent on other activities. It's nice they're doing that, but again, just seems like an avoidable situation.

I went into this thinking that I'll eventually build a nice inventory of Tomes, with activities and rewards, that I could earn at my leisure. That's why I bought it. Instead, I have to make sure I get everything with my points. Really don't want to navigate more layers of FOMO and pressure.

No, this was terrible in Elden Ring. When I first started playing I was finding these messages and thinking they were important from the game, but I quickly realised they were irrelevant nonsense. I don't know why anyone would want this in any game.

Please, no.

That got to be so intrusive on the Soulsborne games. It'd be a flood of noise in a world this populated.

There are a lot of long-requested community asks here! Thank you so much!