Just asking so I know if its a bug, or if this is something I can expect alot more of. Started a new character, sentinel ofc, and riposte from vengeance straight up has no animation, just the enemy getting the damage number. If this is indeed intended, it feels really off, so Im hoping its not.
External link →A character doing literally nothing during an expected swing of a sword is going to look so weird that I'd sure hope that it's obviously a bug.
You can check out a build guide video for that skill and see that every attack has animations. Some of them are shared because casting a fireball and casting a volcanic orb are similar enough that the mage doesn't need to make two different gestures.
Edit: triggered abilities don't have character animations because you need to be able to do stuff at the same time.
Edit 2: wait, do you mean VFX?
I'm unsure what VFX is, but I would expect that when the character ripostes he would swing the weapon, as that's what a riposte is. Obviously when I cast vengeance the sword swing animation fires, but when the enemy hits me back and I riposte, there is no swing.
VFX is Visual Effects. The FX kinda sounds like effects so it's not really an initialism.
That is working as intended. You'll see a small VFX of a sword hitting the enemy when it happens. We can't have the character animate because riposte will most of the time trigger while you are in the middle of another action that requires you to be animating doing something else.
Well, feelings jarring af to me, and I can't remember having any reaction to ripostes in other games. Not sure how they solve it, but they seem to have managed to do it in a way that doesn't immediately stop me in my track like this. Hell, even playing 2 animations on top of each other would probably feel less wierd..
What if I renamed it to magical retaliation instead?
Not sure if you're ironic or not, but it would probably be better, for me.
Nope, trying to find out if it's just a thematic disconnect.
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