Panda form animations = ****.

Sakubatou - Sanctuary
Sakubatou - Sanctuary Posts: 4,001 Arc User
edited May 2013 in Cleric
As a barb, one complaint I've had with the new Panda form is the animations are completely new. Some of them are even identical to each other and some are nonexistent or minimal. And the new Roar swords seem to drop about 4 seconds after the skill. The first time this drove me nuts was when I was trying to time my BMs HF with a barbs Devour and never saw any animation. As a result I've continued to use tiger form on my own barb to best communicate with the squad what I'm doing. Like that I've actually aggroed the mobs before the cleric heals me.

Anyways, was running a BH Aba the other day on my cleric healing a barb with 15k hp and pdef ornies. Pretty squishy with all the magic mobs in there. Even worse was he continued to use Panda form and I couldn't tell what he was doing. He'd run into 5 mobs, attack one, attack a second one, pause, then auto attack for a bit.... Has he aggroed the other 5 mobs? Not sure. I'd calculate my risk and since I'm an AA class and they're magic mobs I'd heal him and most the time I'd get aggro.

I know some of this is just getting used to a new set of skill animations but PWI did a horrible job making things like Flesh Ream and Roar visible on barbs. The long arrow body of tigers really made it easy for a cleric to tell who a barb was attacking and when they switched. As opposed to the re-painted herc body of the Panda which is just kind of aps+auto attack animation.


Cleric forums are dead so I thought I'd post. Just wanted to hear from the clerics, are the new panda animations a pain for others, too?


P.S. There is a common misconception that you need to be in panda form to get the panda bonuses. That's not true. Barbs got 2 new skills, an Advanced Trueform which updated sages to full damage and a ton of chi, and gave demons the -5% crit thing. The other skill, panda form, is just a different skin independant of the Advanced Trueform bonuses.
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  • Zanryu - Dreamweaver
    Zanryu - Dreamweaver Posts: 7,261 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    Agreed. I dislike the new animations and no longer have a damn clue as to what's going on when a Barb is in Panda mode. No hate against the form itself, just the new animations are kinda meh.
  • Desdi - Sanctuary
    Desdi - Sanctuary Posts: 8,680 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    Agreed with that. It's hard to tell what the barb is doing when they are in the panda form. As much as I like it, for better communication with the squad I still prefer the original tiger form.

    At least, as far as I'm playing on my Cleric.
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  • Kniraven - Lost City
    Kniraven - Lost City Posts: 2,620 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    I find the new animations more aesthetically pleasing as well as more detailed.
    It will take a little time to get used to the new average/default/appropriate timing of the new animations vs. the casting and/or channeling time of skills but honestly we have more important, less petty things to whine about.
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  • soundslegit
    soundslegit Posts: 472 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    I thought he was going to complain about the pandas looking like beer-belied lecherous old men.
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  • Desdi - Sanctuary
    Desdi - Sanctuary Posts: 8,680 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    Lol...well I wasn't really complaining or whining. I love the panda and its animations don't get me wrong, but I was just agreeing with the OP that it makes things a little harder now with the new animations. We will all get used to it eventually.
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  • HolyHell - Dreamweaver
    HolyHell - Dreamweaver Posts: 16 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    lol agreedb:laugh
  • Walpurga - Dreamweaver
    Walpurga - Dreamweaver Posts: 2,028 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    I thought he was going to complain about the pandas looking like beer-belied lecherous old men.

    We all know from reading that in Asia such men get all the hot ladies b:surrender

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  • HrunsPanda - Archosaur
    HrunsPanda - Archosaur Posts: 1,136 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    P.S. There is a common misconception that you need to be in panda form to get the panda bonuses. That's not true. Barbs got 2 new skills, an Advanced Trueform which updated sages to full damage and a ton of chi, and gave demons the -5% crit thing. The other skill, panda form, is just a different skin independant of the Advanced Trueform bonuses.

    happy to read b:pleased
  • SxeChik - Archosaur
    SxeChik - Archosaur Posts: 128 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    True. It is not a pleasant idea to "guess" what the panda-form barb is trying to do before/after a pull (invoke/roar) to have appropriate supports. Without playing my husband's barb, I never would have known that panda form doesn't show barb's skill indications the normal way--I always thought they got new active skills--and the panda-form barb whom I ran with earlier in FW would never have gotten stacked heals before pulls (unless I asked). b:angry

    For clerics, as well as other classes, I think we would have to learn the new barb animation to support well. Right now, I still don't have a slightest idea of which animation is which skill until I see the effect mobs take. b:surrender

    As much as annoying as the new form is right now, I love the graphic animation it has--unique and fresh in terms of new content updated (the argument of how the panda is stolen from Kung Fu Panda is a whole different story).
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  • Aeliah - Dreamweaver
    Aeliah - Dreamweaver Posts: 784 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    From another perspective, when pvping against this barb (there's this one barb who really hates my guts) I can't tell what he's gonna do anymore, and also, there's less of a visual cue as to when an armageddon is coming, switching from an upright form to another upright form.
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  • ovenusarmanio
    ovenusarmanio Posts: 6,695 Community Moderator
    edited May 2013
    closed for necro

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