Why do people think that this is cheating, or that people with automatically jump to macroing? It isn't hard to do, by any means, adds a bit more depth and skill to combat, and has been officially embraced be ZeniMax a year and a half ago. I really don't understand the disdain and contempt people have for animation canceling. People jump to conclusions aboUT ZeniMax not being able to fix, is there any evidence of that whatsoever?

It's that time of the month again already...?
I thought we had a few more nerf sorcs/ templars threads to go before we got back to wah wah animation cancelling

O.o Macros are against the rules so I'm not sure what the point of this thread is. Also I'm not sure if you could magically write a macros letting you override the global cooldown (wouldn't it be kinda hacking if possible at all?) but you definitely can't do that manually.

I think ani cancelling is cool. An experienced person can promptly weave all his/her attacks together like a master martial artist probably would which makes it more about skill and is cool to watch. (Plot twist - I'm not actually very good at it myself, doesn't mean it needs to go)

It's the only reason why this game is fast paced

L2P I guess, you must be the typical one that can't do it so you want it to be removed.

What about you buy a Target Skeleton and practice there?

Beating the dead horse again ?

....must be some sort of a sexual thing.

Option four; Play on console

Keep it as it is. It's good.

Why hasn't the correct option been added to the list? Remove animations completely.

Problem solved.

You all swallowed my bait and the hook after that! Now i am going to harvest your salt and use it later against you.

I would vote for changes, but not THOSE changes. The ability to interrupt should remain. BUT whatever it is you are interrupting shouldn't have its effect until a full animation completes. Meaning you can still block or roll away mid-strike if you need to, but you can't animation cancel any more and still get the payoff from canceled abilities. You do a full attack and get the effect, or you do an animation cancel and do nothing. Juking will still be a thing, just not spazzing out with animation cancels.


Why am I against animation canceling? Mainly because visually it looks absolutely dumb, and makes no logical sense. The graphics department spends time making these animations, and the game is based on animations to let the players know what attacks are being done, but both of these are nullified because the animation is simply canceled.


Second problem with animation canceling are macros. Yeah, they're against TOS, blah blah blah. Guess what? Tons of people still use them. And while some special snowflakes keep insisting that macros offer no advantage, logically if they offered no advantage, nobody would be using them. Secondly, even a simple macro (LA + Skill + tiny delay + Block) remapped to each individual skill makes light-weaving animation cancels fool-proof and very easy to use. And the difference between someone doing this manually, and sometimes messing it up if they press something too fast, and someone using a macro and doing it flawlessly every time, is pretty significant. With removal of animation canceling this will become much less of an issue.


Personally I'm convinced that the reason ZOS allow it is because they lack the capacity to fix it. Just like they can't seem to fix Cyrodiil lag and being stuck in loading screens for the past 3 years. There's no good "but it's fun!" argument for keeping being stuck in loading screens. So they don't know how to fix it. Most likely it's the same with animation canceling, and rather than keep banning people they just went and made this bug a feature.

@Giles.floydub17_ESO

Though, then that raises the question: Why have GCD's on abilities at all? why can't I spam surprise attack 5 times in a second?

If it is intended - why animations are exists here at all?
And another question: does it possible for LA to override GCD with animation cancelling and without it?

MehrunesFlagon wrote: »

Stop beating a dead horse.

I don't think that ESO is a dead horse.

templesus wrote: »

L2P issue here move along

How about you take your advice yourself and learn to play the game without the need to abuse an obvious bug? How about that? Or is ESO to hardcore for you?