Blazinflames.8415

The animations on the Vindicator are unacceptable! The Elite feels like it never left beta! How do you manage to release a new weapon set consisting of 5 skill, where 3 of the 5 skills share the exact same animations. They already copy past existing animations. Why not at least try to copy and paste the ones that ACTUALLY FIT!!!

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Indeed!!!! It's such a shame that the playerbase keeps accepting this kind of behaviour. The amount of work that has been put into the Elite Specialisations are absolutely bare minimum. Like I've said many times before, they don't even have to create new skill animations. Just be creative and reuse interesting skill animations that are already existing inside of the game. The GS of the Vindicator is clearly based on the GS skill set of the Ranger. IMO one of the classes with a unique set of GS skills. Then they put even more effort than needed into replacing the skill animations with the most boring and overused animations they could find. Yet again the same autoattack animations as every other heavyclass (In total we have 3 heavy classes somehow with 4GS sets, yet they all have the same autoattack animation :S Again that hammer swing animation on GS3 that almost result in my character decapitating himself (Why not keep the Swoop animation?). Autoattack animations on GS2 and GS4, they would've done better by keeping the Ranger animations on GS2(Maul) and the GS4 (The same counter attack). A uninspiring GS5 the animation doesn't fit the skill description, and they should've kept it a Reaper exclusive. With the Cantha theme and all, why we didn't get the same Dragon Slash animation from the Gunsaber is beyond me :S

LOL!!! The saddest part is, they probably won't ever address it. Must be the most lazy Elite Specialisation to date!!!

Gs4 also shares the same animation as Gs1 secondary attack

Exactly!!! GW2 has been recycling animations since the beginning, that was never the problem. But at least choose animations that actually look good on a Greatsword. The player almost gets decapitated during the GS3 swing!!

The Vindicator actually has 4 skills out of their 5 weapon skills that look EXACTLY THE SAME!!! (The second part of GS4 also shares THE EXACT same animation as the second skill of autoattack!!!!) I really don't get how people are even defending ANET on this. Like you said I have ZERO problems with reused animations but having 4 skills that share the same animations on a weapon with 5 skills is unacceptable. It just screams laziness to me!!!