I want my character to feel strong, powerful and mighty. Like a norn, The Norn. A race where every single member of the race is one-man-army. Well, at least that’s what they told us they are. The in game representation of the Norn leaves much to be desired, at least when it comes to animations. Instead of powerful and mighty, the current animation set for males instead makes my character look like unwieldy, lumbering brick. As such, there are several animations that I would like revised and, if possible, changed.
First, a running animation. The current one makes my character feel clumsy, slow, like he was in mud up to his knees. Having 25% speed boost helps to reduce the feeling of slowness, but the animation is still less than satisfactory. It is the primary offender that made many players turn off from playing as one.
Than there are combat animations, which range from fantastic to mediocre to downright terrible. As I main norn ranger, I will post an example for the latter: The sword auto attack animation. The clunkiness and rooting nature of the weapon aside, the norn animations that accompany it are horrendous.
While the weapon’s attack speed is extremely fast, the animations of male norn do not reflect this. In fact, it’s completely opposite. The second chain part, the “kick”, makes my norn fall on the ground and then use his arms to rebound and kick the enemy with both of his legs. In theory, it would look great, cool even. HOWEVER
Because the attack itself is so quick, the “kick” animation stops and the skill chain #3 commences before the animation finishes properly, resulting in my character laying on the ground in one moment, and flying in the air a moment later, without any transition whatsoever in between. It looks wierd and incomplete.
These are two animations I feel should be updated or changed. I ask norn players to post more examples they feel are less than stellar in execution. Thanks