I play for exploration, story, character development, crafting, and housing. I've never even noticed the combat "feel." It's all number crunching to me anyway. I could push a button, get a result back, and be just as happy.

ZOS has revamped combat animations before, and they may again, but a fundamental overhaul is unlikely.

Just wanted to say that in 2018, nothing changed and the combat is as bad as ever.
I would've preferred it to be tab target and feel great than be this hybrid that it is now and feel all floaty.
I use 2 handed swords and it feels like I am swinging a piece of wood when I auto attack.
Also the jump animation... lol... horrible.
I jumped to GW2 and FFXIV, just to get some good combat.. it's hard to keep playing a game that has such a bad combat.
Even combat in skyrim was better.

I actually rather enjoy the combat in ESO. It's one of the reasons I stay, actually.

At first it was so minimalist as to be jarring. I came from other MMOs where there didn't seem to be enough action bars to cover all the abilities and items and things needed. In those games, it was all actionbars, all the time, ALL THE SCREEN. Most battles i spent looking at my action bars making sure to click the right thing. Boss battles were harder because of having to watch to click the right thing amongst the ENDLESS ACTIONBARS while paying attention to the mechanics of the fights.

I love ESO's minimalist actionbar/quickslot setup. I love that interrupts, heavy attacks that regain resources, light attacks, and blocking aren't tied just to skills. I love that mechanics cues are given all along: it's not just bosses where the graphics show where the knockdown charge is, or that only bosses have frontal cone attacks, etc. It's all along, so you learn to block, roll dodge, interrupt, etc all through leveling, not just in 'boss fights' or harder, group content. I spend less time looking at my actionbars for this or that thing (its all only 12345 Q R `, and easy to change out skills between fights) and more time actually being engaged with the battle.

The skills system where I can build whatever whackadoodle build I want and no set path or real 'skill tree' means I can think a bit about what would be fun, what I need for my playstyle, and what I want for whatever content I am doing. Mixing with armor sets and abilities leaves a lot of creativity that other games squish with those special sets being endgame only, and skills being railroaded down a class path, limited skill tree, or only available at certain levels. I can build whatever I want, be it sing or suck.

I find it really refreshing compared to other games out there.

Rainwhisper wrote: »

I play for exploration, story, character development, crafting, and housing. I've never even noticed the combat "feel." It's all number crunching to me anyway. I could push a button, get a result back, and be just as happy.

+1 to this, its a game i play to enjoy myself, i do not need micro management of animations..

Best game combat is kingdoms of Amalur anyway, way better than Dark Souls..

Animations? Is that what I always cancel?

Hehe

Combat is ESO is so awesome, that we cancel 100% of its animations and look like blabbering fools with tics.

But otherwise, the combat in ESO is much more dynamic than any other MMO I've played.

When you have barely played any MMOs, it's easy to make these types of statements.

I know what you mean.. The lack of that "sweet and spicy animation" that connects to the target. the "ohhh yeah" moments that give you the asmr of hitting the target.. The heavy "impact" feeling that makes you go on frenzy mode while fighting. The "crushing heavy strikes" that makes your adrenaline rush. Yeah I hope to see that in the future "if" they revamp the combat. That would be nice.

I enjoy the combat in this game.

inf.toniceb17_ESO wrote: »

Yeah i gotta agree that combat is terrible on a very fundamential level. It is one of the reasons i regulary take long breaks from the game. I really love exploration and questing in ESO. Stories are good, art in this game is so incredible that it makes me want to just walk around and enjoy the scenery, but combat...i get fed up with this boring and clunky combat very fast sometimes.

I'd get bored too If I just light attacked everything.

Combat is the very reason why I don't play this game anymore. Too few abilities, needs more active skill coodowns, Animation canceling does not belong in this game. Needs more variety when it comes to weapons in pve and pvp. Game use to be more about skill, now it's about what sets you have and what class you are stamnb, stamden.