I start. I hate it, bring back the old one please.

It looks weird to me, but I had the same thing when my other MMO changed an attack animation, hated it at first, then got used to it, now when I see the old one in videos that looks weird to me. I assume the same will happen with this one.

For me, the jabs animation is the worst thing to come out of this patch. Sure, the nerfs make the skill unusable trash, but at least there’s hope that will be corrected in the future. Any time I even consider sticking with this game, I just remember the terrible jabs animation and how it has destroyed my favorite character. I cannot tell you how much I hate this animation.

Won't use it even in the deepest darkest place in the game where no one could see me.

It is so bad I feel I cannot play or be anything but a drag on my group. I went into Cyro last night because my team assured me it would be all right.

It's not. If not with an overpoweringly good bunch of people I would have been a less than productive member of the group.

Thank you Zos for making me feel worthless.

The old animation made toons look like they were spasming with light tbh.

New animation is OK could use some refinement but the new model needs changing, the spearhead looks like a shovel

I don't play Templar enough to care. Also I don't pay any attention to animations.

The old jabs was our identity. We have been using it for over 8 years. There was also absolutely no reason to change both the look and the sound of jabs. They could have just changed the animation and left everything else alone. When using the original animation my jabs focused on a concentrated spot straight in front of me. The new animation just swings wildly all over the place and I don't feel like I can truly aim at anything. This is a sad day for Templars.

@ZOS_Kevin

after testing it some last night, i think the animation flow looks a little smoother, but im not entirely happy with the look of the spear, if your just going to copy/paste one of the motif styles then let us just custom style it so we can make it looks how we prefer (or if thats not possible just change the spear back to the original, the rest of the animation i think is fine)

Its not only ugli AF, it feels clumsy, slow and weird, but also far weaker (Magika Version), its no loger fun to use and broke my playstyle, this is not a good change and we, as a comunity should make zenimax notice this.

If you mained templar you are now trying to figure out what class you're going to have to switch to if you want to keep playing ESO.

I cannot stand the new animation, it looks so clunky and awkward and kinda silly honestly. The old animation felt better, more aggressive and your character held a spear more accurately. I just want to go back to the old animation with 4 jabs.

The old animation was just so much smoother and better... animated! Just watch your character with the new one. Just watch them. It's like they have steel rods in their back and they're just twitching around. There's no smoothness, no natural movements. They're like an animatronic. How are animations from 2014 smoother than animations from 2022?

That's not even getting into the actual spear movements themselves, which are simultaneously way too slow and way too janky and twitchy. I don't know how you make something but too slow and too twitchy, but somehow you did. They're so slow it doesn't feel like you're actually hitting anything, but instead... well, as someone else put it better than I could, sweeping a spider away with a broom, only it's over the enemy's shoulder. It swings so wide I can't aim it right, and given the way the skill works you have to aim it instead of locking onto a target.

The spear not only doesn't fit the theme at all but is also way, way too large which only amplifies the issue with the animation being way too slow and wide so that it just feels like you're not hitting anything at all.

This has single-handedly destroyed my enjoyment of the templar class, which until now as my single most-played class in the game. I have 7 of them across two accounts. Now I'm barely going to play any of them. Thanks, ZOS, for ruining one of the most iconic abilities in your game for absolutely no reason when absolutely no one asked you to.

I could take or leave the nerfs, but ESO's combat relies on its animations to feel natural, smooth, and IMPACTFUL. That has always been its biggest draw, is that the combat actually feels impactful unlike the rest of the TES franchise. That's completely gone now for one of your most popular classes. What an utter disgrace.