Yes. The game should be reworked so that all skills consist of an identical animation of identical length, so that no one has to worry about anything complicated like thinking about what they're doing. It's too confusing and difficult to have wonder when the animation is going to end, and so all animations should be the same so you never have to worry about that. Maybe, if players want, different classes can have different-colored animations, to provide class identity.

You don't get it, we should not be able to cancel them. This is a part of the problem with this game. It's a bug they never fixed and now the ESO community use it in every build and kick people from guilds if they are not good at it. PvP tournaments wouldn't even look at Elder Scrolls online because of it. Hard core PvPers won't even look at this game because of it. This should have been fixed in beta when it was reported.

Have you ever dodge rolled or blocked all of a sudden after casting a skill? That is an example of animation canceling. I too used to be a hater on animation canceling.

This attitude (including in my case) tends to come from a lack of understanding of why it is actually has an important purpose in combat oriented games, and also an understanding of what it really takes to increase one's own damage. If you can't cancel an animation, you can't do things like block an incoming attack quickly or dodge roll a fast moving aoe. You'd have to wait for the entire previous skill to play out and it would not feel responsive. Other MMOs that have dodge rolling also have some type of animation canceling.

You also don't have to do animation canceling as part of your rotation to be good. You can, and most people start to do it eventually without trying. I used to be very bad at dps and now I'm pretty good, and animation canceling is not that big a part of it.

I hope this helps.

Azmarul wrote: »

Have you ever dodge rolled or blocked all of a sudden after casting a skill? That is an example of animation canceling. I too used to be a hater on animation canceling.

This attitude (including in my case) tends to come from a lack of understanding of why it is actually has an important purpose in combat oriented games, and also an understanding of what it really takes to increase one's own damage. If you can't cancel an animation, you can't do things like block an incoming attack quickly or dodge roll a fast moving aoe. You'd have to wait for the entire previous skill to play out and it would not feel responsive. Other MMOs that have dodge rolling also have some type of animation canceling.

You also don't have to do animation canceling as part of your rotation to be good. You can, and most people start to do it eventually without trying. I used to be very bad at dps and now I'm pretty good, and animation canceling is not that big a part of it.

I hope this helps.

It's one thing to be able to cancel to be able to dodge and block. Most games let you do that. ESO takes it too the next level. Chaining attacks so that animations are removed to artificially raise your DSP higher then the game originally intended. Animation normally is part of class balance. Some games even changing a classes animation so that classes fitting the same roles don't have an unfair advantage. Zeni has gone so far from that, the game needs a large scale rework to get there.

When players have best Gear, Max CP and still they can not compete as DPS in Chapter Non HM PVE trials because they can not click mouse faster?

This need some serious changes to encourage players with contents

Dusk_Coven wrote: »

There's too much button mashing too quickly to exploit animation cancellation, which was nonsensical to begin with.
Clearly the servers can't handle it because they can't keep up and process all the clicks properly.
Maybe that's why other games don't let this nonsense go on and on, unlike ESO.
Not recognizing animation cancellation as an exploit to begin with and cutting it out of the game early is ZOS's biggest mistake and they have been paying for it ever since trying to keep up with allowing this "play style".

Have you actually looked at the videos of the people who post the 70/80/90k parses on the Trial Dummy? That doesn't look like "button mashing" to me.

I'm sure you type much, much, much faster than what you're being asked to do to get those types of parses.

No matter how you rework the animations there will always be someone out there cancelling them cause they're not fast enough. Instead the animations should blend together so its not so jarring as it is now.

For what? If you dont want to cancel, dont do it!

no. i'd rather ZOS fix how my skills sometimes refuse to go off. animation canceling is useful. not being able to cast a skill is not.

Some animations, like newer skill lines, can't be cancelled. I wonder if it would be possible to simply make it so the old ones couldn't be cancelled either?