This is why many of us post in these threads telling people everything is fine. We’re worried we’ll lose those animations to placate people that should probably be playing something else. 1h sword root is not a bug, you cannot dodge/move out of any leaps and 1h sword has 2 in its auto attack chain. If that bothers you why not play greatsword or a different class? There are plenty of us that love one handed in its current form and don’t want to see it changed to something else as a solution.
If the devs want to make us able to interrupt leaps that’s fine, but calls for changing the animations entirely are not cool for those of us who run a sword ranger as our main and love it.
Clearly, everything is not fine, just looking at the ratio of posts here within 1 day is an indication of that.
Personally, I know several Rangers, both Guildies and just other friends who tried Sword, liked it, but stopped using it entirely – purely because of the root effect. Don’t sit there and tell me “everything is fine.” Which brings me to my next point.
I knew there would be one person who would be emotional about their precious animations changing, if they even did change them. FYI, leaps are already interruptible to some degree because you can be knocked down whilst flying through the air as it is. Regardless, you are in the [probable] minority 1-2% that cares about fluff more than actual gameplay. Therefore, your opinion is taken lightly, by me and probably anyone else that actually cares about gameplay and improving Quality of Life for Rangers (ya know, what they are supposed to be focusing on with the class right now).
Maybe I should be playing something else you say? You know that’s funny. Ranger is my 4th character, I have 3 other 80’s, and 2 more lowbies, so you really don’t need to tell me to play another class. I’d rather continue on my current Ranger character without crappy mechanics forced down my throat on my weapon of choice. I haven’t had this issue (because it doesn’t exist) with any other class or weapon combo, either. Maybe you are the one that should try another class – it helps in making observations and suggestions when it comes to balance.
Why don’t I use a Greatsword instead, you say? Uh, well, because I’d rather use a Sword – without dumb mechanics that no other class (or weapon set) has to face. Because GW is supposed to be a game where I can play however I want instead of being pigeonholed into using certain builds or weapons. At least that’s whats been advertised to us by Arena.net.
You sitting there telling me to play another class, or use a Greatsword, etc. is a perfect example of the anti-freedom Arena.net is trying to avoid, or claims to.
