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Human male Daredevil animations
I completely agree with everything you said. Specially weakening charge, that animation looks like a place holder animation before you make the good one. It’s the elementalists air focus ability slowed down and sliding the character forward…. very poor animation.
Lotus training is also a very bad one. Paying close attention they are throwing their body from left to right but the right leg is the one thats bent? what wait….its just very unnatural for a human flip.
The asura have the best lotus training animation though in my opinion but even it has a problem of ending the animation like half a frame way to early and feels cheapened. Here’s to hoping one day they adjust it to be more “fluid”. Cheers.
I completely agree with everything you said. Specially weakening charge, that animation looks like a place holder animation before you make the good one. It’s the elementalists air focus ability slowed down and sliding the character forward…. very poor animation.
Lotus training is also a very bad one. Paying close attention they are throwing their body from left to right but the right leg is the one thats bent? what wait….its just very unnatural for a human flip.
The asura have the best lotus training animation though in my opinion but even it has a problem of ending the animation like half a frame way to early and feels cheapened. Here’s to hoping one day they adjust it to be more “fluid”. Cheers.
Now that you mention it, yes, the entire weakening charge animation is just a rehashed version of an Ele focus animation. I mean, really?! And it’s been like that since the launch of HoT. I hope the devs change it and soon.
You’re a bit late to the party…
DD animations weren’t exactly well received from what I can remember.
Animation change? From Anet??
Only if you’re a Ranger with a broken auto-attack.
We only got a handful new and unique Characters animations with HoT and Elite Specs.
Daredevil’s Staff #1 and #5 (#3 Technically counts, but it’s sort of a cop-out so not gonna count it.) They also got Fist Flurry/Palm Strike, Bandit’s Defense and the Impact Strike Combo, besides the 3 unique Dodge Animations.
Revenant’s got a unique animation on Hammer #1, Staff #1/#3/#5 and Sword #3. They also got Chaotic Release with Glint.
Scrapper got Hammer #3.
Reaper got Greatsword #2 and Reaper’s Shroud #2.
Berserker got Sundering Leap and Headbutt.
Rest got nothing. Daredevil actually got the most unique animations on the simple virtue of getting Physical Skills as their Elite Spec Utility Skills, and their Dodge animations.
Bear in mind, I’m only counting Character Animations here where the PC performs a unique movement, not effect animations such as Berserker’s Blaze Breaker or Chronomancer’s Wells.
ADDENDUM: Curiously enough, Norn Female thief has a different Vault Animation compared to humans. They leap straight up, spinning the staff overhead, before flipping into the vault mid-air as they come crashing down. Definitely preferable to the human one in my oppinion.
Thief – Duelist | Ranger – Strider | Engineer – Technician |
Elementalist – Spellweaver | Necromancer – Warlock | Mesmer – Trickster |
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We made an entire thread about animations during the beta. We had very good propositions in this thread and we got some new animations from the devs.
I suppose we won’t get new ones if it doesn’t impact the gameplay…
People play human male characters when human female meta is so strong? Mind blown.
People play human male characters when human female meta is so strong? Mind blown.
I know right ? My biggest mistake when doing my first character ^^
People play human male characters when human female meta is so strong? Mind blown.
I don’t regret it.
People play human male characters when human female meta is so strong? Mind blown.
I don’t regret it.
I had the same mindset. Then I realised I could be looking at nice pair of virtual bo0bs instead of a guy that looked like his face went through plastic many times.
I found the animations lackluster on human. Originally started with Asura but as you mentioned the Lotus Training one always bugged me it feels like it’s cut short.. not fluent/smooth. Now I’m playing Charr and having an absolute BALL; their animations are favourable so I think I’ll be playing my Charr for a while.
Just change your gender to female OP you will never regret it. This is a MMO dress up game.
Try Dominator’s staff. I’m using staff on my (human male) revenant and love Bo with him. He got the Dominator’s skin and the animations looked crappy, tried it on my (human male) thief and all staff animations look awesome – in my opinion.
How are the animations on a male sylvari? I made a new Thief because of Daredevil, so it’s not too late to delete it and start over if necessary.
The animation is smoother now. Space vault !