Ravage!!!???

I can only think it's all for mobility in PVP... which is why I despise PVP.

Does it matter (yes, I have)? The old animation, while amazing, doesn't work with an instant cast ability. It was changed for balance reasons, so the animation had to change as well.

Players took the root utility in PvP, so it wasn't a huge issue. It was for end game PvE where you frequently had to delay using it or lost multiple strikes due to boss mechanics forcing you to move to avoid losing half your health.

While thats fine, I absolutely agree with the OP that the animation itself is horrific. I'm sorry but I play these games to see my character in all her ******ery. I refuse to acknowledge that this was a good design idea. I can imagine in my head several styles they could have went with that would be more immersive but this new animation is just balls.

I mean the game is devolving at this point in certain ways, so lets take the animations shall we? If you look at the vanilla animations before this game was freemium, they were amazing. The original team had cool designs and I liked them. Fast forward to several expansions later and the loss of the original team, it's like they are purposely cutting corners, look at how Lana looked in the Revan expansion she looked aweful. Thank god they made her look tons better in KNOTFE/KNOTEE, but thats one minor plus I give these additions. The animation route they have taken has gone significantly downhill. I almost can't stomach it to play -_-. My character feels different now, I loved marauder and it's like they took a big shat on her and it just feels weird to play. I haven't touched any other characters to see how they ruined them. As for bounty hunter flamethrower as cool as it is and as iconic as it is, I personally NEVER used it. The bounty hunter had far too many damage abilities that I would never use them all so taking a few away for me isn't a huge deal. Long as they don't take away some of the cooler ones I'm good with BH.

EDIT: I will say removing ravage off my bar and putting gore in its place feels better. I like how they changed gore and made 100% armor penetration a seperate ability.

This, for sure.

I'm legit going to take a massive performance hit on my Jugg by removing the ability from the tray, just so that I can "stomach it to play".

What really makes it all worse, isn't that the new animation itself is horrid, which it is...but that the old Ravage was just so perfectly perfect for my character. So I'm going to miss that, regardless of my non-use of the new animation.

*sighs*

Isn't it your main filler as tank?
It is part of rotation for Vengeance.
Highest damage filler for Rage?

Yeah, and unfortunately, for Immortal (tank) it grants 6% Defense.

Just another great performance loss to look forward to.

Can all the people who are going to ban ravage from their quickbars for aesthetic reasons that play on Red eclipse post their character names? I want to put them on ignore so that I won't get grouped with them

On a serious note, I don't really care how it looks, but being rooted for 3 seconds and/or getting the message "you cannot use this ability while moving" sucked big time for a class that has to be mobile. Yay for no more channels

They want to just stand and stare at numbers. Glorious numbers... dead. And then everyone in their group screams "why aren't you moving out of red circles!"

^^ When not reading the thread at all goes wrong v5.0.