I don't like it either, though tbh that's 90% I am bad at it and 10% the spastic animations bug me.

But this is just how it is. They've been very clear they're not going to change it, and that's fine.

Royaji wrote: »

There is a strict 0.9 second GCD on all skills. Once you've used a skill it's impossible to use another one for 0.9 seconds. No animation canceling technic can bypass this GCD. Light attacks are not considered a skill and are not blocked by GCD or initiate it. Because of that you can fire a skill and follow with a LA immediatly after it. But even if you weave a LA after the first skill you still have to wait for 0.9 seconds before using the next skill.

[snip]

If you are not cancelling animation, you wouldn't be able to cast LA while GCD, because most of skills has animation time equals or even more than GCD.
And vice versa: with animation cancel you would be able to cast LA while GCD, and after it ends you would able to cast another skill without wasting your time on LA
It increases DPS drastically, especially in the new patch, where damage of all LA increased by 30%!

And, as it were already said, it gives a huge advantage for all macro users. And even if it breaks EULA, how anyone can catch me if my macro inside of my mouse - in the hardware, not even software?
So please, stop this trashtalking about l2p - you don't know me, I don't know you. And I'm not talking about your persons.

I'm only talking about obvious [snip] it must be cancelled by everything or by nothing. Or, as it were suggested too, cancel not only animation, but skill effect too.

And nobody can answer on simple question: If it is intended - why animations are exists here at all?



[Edit for Baiting and Profanity]

Smmokkee wrote: »

Animation cancelling is fun.

Animation cancelling is as boring as playing Teemo tbh.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klgheiYtvfQ

"All is fine, do not touch it at all"

Danksta wrote: »

It's fine the way it is. No matter how fast you animation cancel it will not speed up the GCD on skills.

From the same skill right? But what about the others... untill you finish one to start other, I already started casting the second skill in the rotation... no? If yes, then it can increase your dps and even save your life in critical situations in PvE and PvP.

Rataroto wrote: »

sounds like a L2P issue

Also, this ***..... "Animation Cancel" is a "Unintented" "mechanic" that they are lazy to fix or found out that is would be cool to allow people to master the speed of their fingers in a way that helps your overall combo in combat, making Learn To Play more profound... It is somewhat a cool idea, but it's too *** and horrible when I cancel my skills animations, and to add more, it's harder on a Controller... in the end, I barely cancel anything anymore, I just enjoy my skills animations, and enjoy killing those super meta elitists who keeps canceling everything thinking they will kill me, a non-animation-cancel player. LoL.

The entire combat system would need to be reworked to fit in cooldown and such. AC makes eso fast paced and fun imo.

Seems fine to me.

Would be nice to have smoother / faster animations play out to match the GCD better. Otherwise it's quite nice the way it is and helps differentiate the good players from the bad ones.

Are you new here....? If so, no prob...but I mean
.....is this a troll?

rosendoichinoveb17_ESO wrote: »

For PvE, LA animation canceling is worth up to 10% of your total damage. This is not all that much but it is one of the few things that distinguish good PvE players from the rest. So I vote not to have anything changed.


Some alternative advises were also given by a few comments above if you cannot afford to spend the time to learn how to do it (even though its not that hard).

thats called weaving not cancelling

Ahk1lleez wrote: »

None of these options. Block casting is receiving a significant nerf come Morrowind. Animation canceling to buff HPS and DPS absolutely needs to be ejected from the game though. Canceled skills should not inflict damage or initiate healing. Allow for skills to be canceled and block to remain priority...but remove the ability for the skills being used that are canceled to actually hit. If you ani cancel a BOL....you shouldn't receive the heal. If you ani cancel an Executioner...you should not be doing any damage.

Force animations to finish to have the desired outcome but still allow block to override skill selection at any time. Yes animation canceling attacks and heals will be more difficult with the resource management nerfs as you'll more rapidly run out of resources....but the fact remains that a canceled attack or a canceled heal should be just that...cancelled. Not shortened in duration and used as a means to buff hps and dps.

you know, animation cancelling doesnt cancel out the global cooldown

kewl wrote: »

You're at stage three, anger. Three more to go before acceptance.

So.. You will eventually accept the lag in Cyrodiil as well as it is?

Don't have an opinion on right or wrong here but anyone that blindly follows ZOS's word on it just baffles me. It's an accidental mechanic that they didn't want to spend the time fixing. That's all it is. Nobody should really care about it as it really doesn't affect anyone.

Oh look its this thread again.