It is a core component of combat now. If they remove animation cancelling they would need to totally revamp the entire combat system under the hood beyond just its animations. I wouldn't be opposed to the idea of removing animation cancelling if they reworked the whole system to something better. That would be a big undertaking and would result in the game feeling quite different, so they'd have to do it right.

Furthermore, to simply remove animation cancelling as it is, it would probably result in classes that don't need to rely on light attacks as much, such as the Arcanist, becoming the only viable class for end game content.

Honestly, it would just be down right annoying to not have it.

The term is incredibly misunderstood by many players who believe it is somehow nefarious, but they can't explain how -- except obviously something called animation cancelling can't be good!!

Many others use their grievance as a form of coping because they don't perform as well compared to other players as they like.

Here's the ridiculous part: The issue doesn't actually exist.

"Animation cancelling" does not improve performance. What dictates how quickly players can execute abilities are the various cooldowns. That's it. Executing abilities on cooldown while weaving will result in some animations being clipped, but the clipping is the consequence of performing well, not the other way around.

Every player is constantly passively cancelling animations as part of fluid motion regardless of how well they are playing.

Furthermore there are already lower-apm play styles, sets and mythic items for players who don't prefer weaving. No one has to play a 1 second gcd light attack weave play style if they don't want to.

animation cancelling is part of the uniqueness of ESO. makes it feel like a fps almost and fuels the action combat feel.

The weaving makes ESO fun and core part of the game.
Besides, they need to make ESO 2.0 if you want to remove weaving due to massive mechanical shift and rebalance:

Just to name a few:

• Ulti gen
• Glyph, poison, trait procs.
• La specific skills
• Proc sets
• Resource returns

If you cannot weave, LA will no longer exist because casting a skill is always better than LA.
Even if you remove LA, animation cancel is possible with dodging and blocking too. Do you want to eliminate those as well?

It just isn't happening, and it should not either.

tomfant wrote: »

Imagine a heavy hit incoming but you can't react because the animation of that skill you just cast didn't complete yet. Nobody wants that.

False. Lots of people enjoyed playing Virtua Fighter and Soulcalibur.

The best part about animation cancelling is that you don´t have to do it if you don´t want to. So it´s fine as it is.

Mmmh, maybe would have been better as private poll on this matter.

Cancelling an animation should cancel the skill effect, too.

SilverBride wrote: »

Cancelling an animation should cancel the skill effect, too.

For the most part, it does. Block-cancelling channeled abilities is something people often do. Since it’s worded as animation cancelling / weaving, I assume OP means the light attack animation, which if I recall correctly, the second half of the animation is what gets cancelled.

DestroyerPewnack wrote: »

They made heavy attack/one bar builds viable, introduced a mythic that shifts the majority of your damage to your abilities at the expense of your light attacks to make weaving forgiving, and the strongest class(es) in the game have channeled abilities so that you don't have to weave as much. How much more does the game have to be dumbed down until it's enough?

Not to mention that Relequen is multiple years out of meta at this point and ZOS has already decreased the power of light attacks both by making Empower only affect heavy attacks and by decreasing light attack damage.

Leave light attack weaving alone.

If you don't want to do the light attack weave or don't like to light attack weave then don't do it. It's really as easy as that.

StihlReign wrote: »

It was a mistake. ZOS doesn't fix mistakes. The players suffer with them for years, even coming around to defending them and eventually proclaiming them features. Meanwhile the initial posts about the mistakes are incredible.

Ever hear of happy accidents? Just gotta paint it into a happy little tree.

I would just like to point out that this is an extremely biased place to conduct this poll. The vast majority of players not playing the game hate weaving/animation cancels.

Do they run the risk of losing their existing playerbase by overhauling the combat experience similar to what happened with Star Wars Galaxies? Sure, however, there's examples to the contrary too. Look at the way Digital Extremes responded to helicoptering and implemented the parkour system that exponentially increased the speed of their game. Imagine where that game would be if you had a bunch of people saying "don't touch it!" and the devs actually listened.

Also quite frankly, I doubt this is the hill most of the community would die on. I get that some of you prefer the way it is now, but would you honestly quit without it?

The gameplay would be extremely stale and boring without weaving, they should in fact reinforce it with weaving animations for when you do it right. We're talking about one of the few aspects that make ESO's combat unique.

Understand, this is an MMORPG, learning curve and skill gap are important for the health of the game, without unique features to be learned, your game just turn into another generic MMO on the market, I believe a huge majority of the endgame playerbase are only there because they like how combat feels, removing weaving would hurt that community a lot, without an endgame community your MMO will just wither away over time.

Weaving is part of ESO, the only problem is how poorly communicated it is, ZOS should reinforce these mechanics to ensure new players are taught from the moment they interact with the tutorial.

I'd like a parallel system where all skills to be projectile or cast without target and animation locked. I can already shoot a light attack or a heavy attack into nothingness and if a target goes infront of my spam it's automatically locked on. Why cant I do the same with skills. I'd take the full animation as a trade off be able to wind up a melee attack before dropping in or running around a corner.

Pretty biased with my high ping since the current system favors low ping with it's current who can get most server messages in the shortest frame.