Is the block-enabled combo some sort of animation cancel bug or is it legit?

[Tiom]

I ask because when doing the attacks for it the animation looks extremely jank.

For the uninitiated the block-enabled combo is a series of attacks you can do by swinging with a 1 handed weapon and holding block. The moment your guard comes back up again you can hold primary or primary + Secondary and do a high dmg fast combo.

[Jaasrg]

What doesn't look jank in here.

[Rhapsody]

Seems like animation bug, can't really determine if it's any serious issue though. You do more damage by careful timing of parrying and counterattacking instead of trying to cancel animations... but maybe you can make it work just for that purpose, I dunno.

[Tiom]

Originally posted by Rhapsody:

Seems like animation bug, can't really determine if it's any serious issue though. You do more damage by careful timing of parrying and counterattacking instead of trying to cancel animations... but maybe you can make it work just for that purpose, I dunno.

Its really good for wrecking bosses during their "please hit me" animations. I have mistwalker with 50 sword skill and the secondary combo does just shy of 1,000 dmg. This guy kills the queen with it and timestamps every time he does either the primary or secondary version of the combo. Its devastating.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F67Bnr6JwdA

[Faceplant]

I can't tell what's going on in that video, but it sounds like you're describing the normal parry attack. With a parry that staggers the enemy followed by a seondary with the BM sword, I can do well over 600 dmg. 1000 seems high for the mistwalker, but I haven't tried to figure out what it does yet. There's not many non-bosses that can take that much damage. :-)

I haven't fought The Queen yet, but that's the attack that I use with both Moder and Yagluth, but bosses don't stagger, so you don't get the 2X multiplier. If this is some way to get that without stagger, that could be useful.

[Tiom]

Originally posted by Faceplant8:

I can't tell what's going on in that video, but it sounds like you're describing the normal parry attack.

I am not talking about the normal parry. Check the timestamps in the video. He timestamps every time he does the combo and at the end he does a demonstration of how to do both versions of it.