The weirdest thing is that you have several skills with the EXACT same copy pasted animation and out of all the skills you choose to give a new animation, you give it to one of thw few that people lile and that is unique??

Common zos, why are you doing this?! Are you trying to kill your game?

Generally I'm a very optimistic person and don't complain about changes, but the new Jabs animation is disorientating to the point of causing epileptic fits.Jabs are magic based light* attack. There is absolutely no need for the end of the animation, where it veers off to the side or bottom, of whatever they are trying to achieve.

The new animation as it stands makes me constantly think that I am not aligned properly towards my target and I find myself constantly trying to realign mit position. This is stupid. It is almost as if the person(s) who designed this has never played the game themselves. In all the world of trying to understand I don't know what they were thinking. If they really needed a change, why not just change the visual artwork, but leave the movement (animation) as is.

I think ZOS should consider a voting system, where players can vote for a change, and they only implement that which is voted for. Not what ZOS "Thinks" people want. U35 is definitely not something that anyone, except maybe the Developers themselves, wanted. I have yet to find a single POSITIVE comment about the changes.

*as in shining light

Animation is horrible, weaving feels much better but would preferred it to use same damage strikes in its 0.8 cast as rapid strikes and should put perform a weapon skill I believe.

I’ll still be using it but it’s definitely worse off after this update, understand it maybe outperformed as a whole skill and needed tuned but been tuned too much and to top it off adding the animation change was just not done brilliantly visually. It did improve weaving the skill though from what I’ve seen when using it.

shadyjane62 wrote: »

Parrot1986 wrote: »

Animation is horrible, weaving feels much better but would preferred it to use same damage strikes in its 0.8 cast as rapid strikes and should put perform a weapon skill I believe.

I’ll still be using it but it’s definitely worse off after this update, understand it maybe outperformed as a whole skill and needed tuned but been tuned too much and to top it off adding the animation change was just not done brilliantly visually. It did improve weaving the skill though from what I’ve seen when using it.

I will NEVER use it. My self respect would not allow it.

I main a Templar, I have no self respect.

Took me maybe four boss fights to not even notice the animation any more. Other more pressing things to pay attention to. I'm guessing when we do our trial run tonight there will be so much happening visually that the new animation will be no distraction at all.
They can change the way it looks all they want and I'm not going to care. How it preforms is all that matters.

I wonder ...... I noticed that the videos and advertising leading up to U34 showed much more Isobel, than Ember..... and yet, Ember is much more popular, as Isobel takes offense to anyone who survives outside of being a Noble, and having tax money routed to you, via estates.......

I have also noticed that Isobel got to keep her jabs.... it was taken away from the players, but is still in the game..... it does make you wonder why?


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ClevaTreva wrote: »

Seriusly tho: revert this - it looks awful.

This is exactly what it looks like, I've been saying it long time already.. Like the new animation looks like a yellow shovel, shoveling dirt like excavation site has been found. It looks static and bad from any angle. It's not engaging, it's not fun, it's now fluid gameplay animation. It's really bad in all aspects. If you want to make it jab 3 times , then just make a proper 3 times jab. 2 fast strikes and one lunge forward deep jab like the old one had. If you wanna use a motif, please use something proper. But I think we all deserve a real custom made spear that actually looks good. Not some giant ass spade with a *** broomstick end the size of a tree.

Ariordin wrote: »

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The skill has always been very strong, so there is at least a justifiable reason why you might want to nerf the damage. The channel time was also pretty awkward within the 1 second GCD, so changing the length is also not terrible.

What's completely baffling and unexplainable is changing the animation. Why make the spear different? Why make it so goofy looking? Why doesn't the spear on the jabs animation match the rest of the Aedric Spear animations? I cannot figure out what in the world they were thinking.

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