IGNORE any guides from youtube...

[Decep87]

Looking into the game and youtube... i can tell you without a doubt MOST of the dps guides are using 1.modified games or 2.Animation cancellations on skills or attacks.

The only advice i would take away is rotations and a general guide on what sigils to run..

These Videos and such are bad for new players and others alike.

Enjoy the game and avoid chasing "dps charts" most runs can be done within 5mins :)

Happy hunting and good luck to you all.

[Black Hammer]

Why wouldn't you use animation cancels? Pretty normal for action games these days.

[Decep87]

Originally posted by Black Hammer:

Why wouldn't you use animation cancels? Pretty normal for action games these days.

its a bug... its abused... its getting patched.

[ZexxCrine]

Originally posted by Decep87 - TDS = winning:

Originally posted by Black Hammer:

Why wouldn't you use animation cancels? Pretty normal for action games these days.

its a bug... its abused... its getting patched.

have you ever played an action game before?

[Decep87]

Originally posted by ZexxCrine:

Originally posted by Decep87 - TDS = winning:

its a bug... its abused... its getting patched.

have you ever played an action game before?

you miss the point of the thread.

[Nepnep]

Ignore this person and abuse all the "animation cancel" feature the guides provide you. As for sigils, you can mostly ignore those and choose whatever you want. Everyone mostly run damage because its damage. But if you want to run tank, go ahead, its your playstyle. The guide mostly teach you their damage builds.

Many things could happen for animation cancel.

1) Its a bug and get patched. The people who rely on it have to learn something new and will complain that their playstyle got patched. (You and everyone else go back to the same level)

2) Its a bug that NEVER gets patched, like all the shenanigans people do in GunZ. (You miss out and stay weak)

3) Its actually a feature. (You miss out and stay weak)

Is there a reason not to abuse animation cancel? Absolutely none. Abuse away.

[Black Hammer]

Originally posted by Decep87 - TDS = winning:

Originally posted by Black Hammer:

Why wouldn't you use animation cancels? Pretty normal for action games these days.

its a bug... its abused... its getting patched.

About the only ones that are likely a bug are ones that allow you to cancel out of a skill usage but still get the rapid charge effect without the skill going on cooldown. Otherwise, animation cancels don't happen by accident, they're a feature.

[Decep87]

Originally posted by Black Hammer:

Originally posted by Decep87 - TDS = winning:

its a bug... its abused... its getting patched.

About the only ones that are likely a bug are ones that allow you to cancel out of a skill usage but still get the rapid charge effect without the skill going on cooldown. Otherwise, animation cancels don't happen by accident, they're a feature.

so with my vane... i should cancel and chain break got it ...

[LuckyToShoot]

Animation cancels in action games are usually are done on purpose by the devs, unlikely it's a bug unless they officially stated otherwise. But I'd ignore the youtube guides for the most part a lot of them aren't that good anyway from what been showing up on my youtube feed.

[みさかりん]

Originally posted by Decep87 - TDS = winning:

Originally posted by Black Hammer:

Why wouldn't you use animation cancels? Pretty normal for action games these days.

its a bug... its abused... its getting patched.

Animation cancels are not a bug and is an intended tech for action games. The bug, not even a bug, are those jumping attack that has high damage cap like way more higher cap than what that specific character can do with their ground attack or higher cap than other jumping attack and those animation cancel who's skill still take full effect even though animation cancel was used. Like for example, character A skill 1 can hit 100x and takes 100 sec to initiate but still does 100x hit even when cancelled. This is a bug. Character B skill 1 has 5 hits in which 4 hits takes 2 second to initiate but the 5th hit takes 1min to initiate, player then can perform an animation cancel to ignore that 5th hit thus making that 1min more productive other than watching the animation of the 5th hit.

Imagine if animation canceling is a bug and people perform Transient in blue/purple form with Narmaya or other characters that has mid to long animations and cannot cancel it with dodge, then you'll likely see negative reviews of how clunky / other complaints about the combat.

[Mikoto]

Originally posted by Decep87 - TDS = winning:

Originally posted by ZexxCrine:

have you ever played an action game before?

you miss the point of the thread.

You misunderstand the genre.

[Kirioz]

Originally posted by Decep87 - TDS = winning:

Originally posted by Black Hammer:

Why wouldn't you use animation cancels? Pretty normal for action games these days.

its a bug... its abused... its getting patched.

LMAO. You've never played an action or fighting game before, right?

[Decep87]

Originally posted by Kirioz:

Originally posted by Decep87 - TDS = winning:

its a bug... its abused... its getting patched.

LMAO. You've never played an action or fighting game before, right?

no never in my 20 years on steam have i ever played action games or fighting games before ..... BDO has the same style of playing

[Nei]

animation cancelling is part of the genre's history since 2001
it's good to inform yourself about these animation cancelling and techniques if you want to go the harder difficulties later on

[Kirioz]

Originally posted by Decep87 - TDS = winning:

Originally posted by Kirioz:

LMAO. You've never played an action or fighting game before, right?

no never in my 20 years on steam have i ever played action games or fighting games before ..... BDO has the same style of playing

Sarcasm aside, BDO (and others mmo and action rpg) have some animation cancels too...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kn6pgKMSTo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYXc0fNeFn4

[Nei]

Originally posted by Kirioz:

Originally posted by Decep87 - TDS = winning:

no never in my 20 years on steam have i ever played action games or fighting games before ..... BDO has the same style of playing

Sarcasm aside, BDO (and others mmo and action rpg) have some animation cancels too...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kn6pgKMSTo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYXc0fNeFn4

OP is allergic to youtube videos please put this away