Abilities with....Ugly animations, strong effect. Good animations, lame effect

GeorgeBlack

Balancing is out of reach but for the love of god can we have the ugly animations accompanied by weak effects, and the strong abilities tied to good animations?

Reflective Plate, good animation bad effect (used to be effective)
Flames of Oblivion/Cauterize, good effect, funny animation (used to be nice)

There must be other examples Im sure of it.

Evade/Blade cloak. Strong effect, horrible animation.

Sylvermynx

Well.... I guess if ESO wanted to go that direction....

I have to say I never "see" animations. So not my thing.

Lysette

Veiled strike and it's morphs is basically just a slash across the enemies body, pretty uninspired for what it could be, if it would be nearer to it's intended use. Would i use a concealed weapon like this?- unlikely, first i hide it carefully just to make a wide move with it showing it off instead to just stick it into my target's heart or cut it's throat - makes no sense.

I guess we are not talking about weapon animations here - ZOS has now in it's hints on loading screens officially made animation canceling a feature - it said: After pressing the light attack button one can immediately invoke an ability. This is basically making it official and weapon animations matter no longer.

Ratzkifal

Dragon Blood. The animation lasts 20seconds and looks way too important for just being 20% increased health regen, which most of the time amounts to nothing.

Nerouyn

Good animations, lame effect

2/3rds of warden abilities.

Sylvermynx

Nerouyn wrote: »

Good animations, lame effect

2/3rds of warden abilities.

Really? Again.... I don't even "see" animations. Useless to me. I see what happens during combat - that is, how fast something dies.

Animations should go away.

Sporvan

Ratzkifal wrote: »

Dragon Blood. The animation lasts 20seconds and looks way too important for just being 20% increased health regen, which most of the time amounts to nothing.

Hands down the ugliest ability in the game... become a transparent heartbeat for 20% health regen...

Narvuntien

If the animations are long then you are missing out of dps while you are performing them... its a flaw in the combat system.

Faulgor

Good animation, lame effect
Molten Weapons: No noteworthy effects compared to other classes Brutality/Sorcery buffs. I guess the party buff was supposed to be worthwhile, but it's largely redundant. Can we at least buff Armaments, or make Heavy Attacks worthwhile again?
Inhale: I guess it's still useful in some situations? Maybe.
Sun Shield: This used to be a skill once.
Healing Ritual: It even has a nice sound effect! Just way too expensive.
Lacerate: I bet most people forgot this even exists.

Ugly animations, strong effect
Hurricane: Will you please let me see my character, ZOS!?
Flurry: Just ew.
Grim Focus: Yeah, I said it. I hate that silly bow, especially on magicka builds. I wish it respected the weapon you're using, it makes no sense to fire a bow with a staff.
Pets: We need pet skins, especially for Sorcs. They are so, so ugly.

Noxavian

Sylvermynx wrote: »

Well.... I guess if ESO wanted to go that direction....

I have to say I never "see" animations. So not my thing.

Try pressing 12345, either of those numbers will result in an animation playing out if you have skills equipped. Hope this helps!

RD065

I like the animations of the Psijic skills but they don't seem to add anything useful.

DreadDaedroth

Magma armour/corrosive armour make you look like a PS1 Character.

Aznarb

RD065 wrote: »

I like the animations of the Psijic skills but they don't seem to add anything useful.

Agree it's probably the most disappointing skill-line.