The Combat is way more fluent than before visually and reactive. You just need to readjust your cancel patterns a bit.

coradaelu wrote: »

Well ZoS finally nerf again another good mechanic, for those who were using AC Block this change is very bad, some animations are sluggish and combat feels slowed down, its not complete destroyed, you can barswap or roll dodge to cancel animation so you can work on that, I hope at least they leave it like that..

Except it was never meant to be a 'good mechanic', it was a bug they couldn't fix so they decided to make it a 'feature'. You can't claim they're nerfing what was originally a bug when they finally find a way of fixing it, no matter how convenient it made combat for you.

I'm not one to defend ZOS without decent cause. In fact, more often than not I'm pointing out how most of what they do is stupid at best and a blatant cash grab at worst. But in this case, there are people all up in arms when ZOS finally starts fixing a bug that was never intended and is causing other problems. I say good on ZOS for finally fixing something for once, or trying to at least.

What is it a majority of people in here like to vomit every time someone is unhappy with changes? Oh yeah, "adapt and get over it and stop QQing" essentially. Same could be applied here; doesn't feel very good to be told to just get over something making you unhappy, does it? And for the record I'm not saying that to anyone in general dissatisfied with the change, but mainly targeting the sentiment at those who may have used this argument against people in the past.

At any rate, if ZOS is determined to actually cull animation cancelling (and again, I say go for it if it'll improve server stability) and they have the means to do it without breaking a million other things, no amount of angry threads about it is going to change their mind. You can argue "oh but it's a feature now not a bug!" all you want, but at the end of the day it's still a bug because it was never intended. You can't really get too upset if they're fixing a glitch in order to make the game run better; isn't that what people usually want? For bugs and glitches to be fixed?

EDIT: Also just to put this out there, I don't use animation cancelling, but I'm not defending getting rid of it because I don't use it. I pretty much never PvP and only rarely do PvE stuff outside of events and running the occasional dungeon with friends. Most of what I do in this game these days is RP. I just never felt the need to bother learning it, and I'm far more concerned with the server being more stable than I am any sort of unintended combat 'feature', whether it's one I use or not. If nixing animation cancelling will help ESO's servers not run like a fresh cow pie, then I apologize to the people who use it, but I'll be the first to vote for it to go.