Left-Handed Animations

[Khisanth.2948]

7 hours ago, ShadowCatz.8437 said:

How does this impact in PvP and WvW setting when some skills can be indicated before they are being used like Elementalist riser their right hand while they charge up their heavy damage skills (Meteor) as an example?

As a client side toggle it would have no impact in those settings and additionally it can be overwritten by the standard model setting.

 

 

[Widmo.3186]

On 12/24/2021 at 8:34 PM, faroguy.1407 said:

but having a toggle for left-handed animations would really, really improve my quality of play.

Doubt it. Like what, you think you gonna react faster? Become better at PvP or something, just because animation will start with left hand instead of right? Oh cmon, its not gonna happen, the only thing that could get better is your immerse with character you play, which is a dumb reason to give devs more useless work. Do you also have problems with Geralt in Witcher series holding sword in right hand and casting spells with left? Ridiculous

[Sobx.1758]

On 1/1/2022 at 6:23 PM, Widmo.3186 said:

Doubt it. Like what, you think you gonna react faster? Become better at PvP or something, just because animation will start with left hand instead of right? Oh cmon, its not gonna happen, the only thing that could get better is your immerse with character you play, which is a dumb reason to give devs more useless work. Do you also have problems with Geralt in Witcher series holding sword in right hand and casting spells with left? Ridiculous

Mostly agreed, except at the very least saying "I'd like to have character left-handed because I'm left-handed" makes some sense, while pretending that his mmorpg character not being left handed "makes him confused" (or forget what weapons he equipped) is just a made up reasoning to pretend it's an actual gameplay problem, while it isn't.

Edited January 2, 2022 by Sobx.1758

[Khisanth.2948]

On 1/1/2022 at 12:23 PM, Widmo.3186 said:

Doubt it. Like what, you think you gonna react faster? Become better at PvP or something, just because animation will start with left hand instead of right? Oh cmon, its not gonna happen, the only thing that could get better is your immerse with character you play, which is a dumb reason to give devs more useless work. Do you also have problems with Geralt in Witcher series holding sword in right hand and casting spells with left? Ridiculous

Meanwhile paying more attention to your opponents' animation rather than focusing on your own character would improve things. The disorientation can even function as a sort of warning like "if you can read this message then you are too close".