I never thought I'd say it but...bring back rooted animations!

[BurtHutt]

When the HC team took away the rooted stuff due to the stupidly long animation times, I thought it'd be great. Nope. It looks like crap. Your toon is sliding all over the place as it goes through these painfully long animations - I get why but it just looks so, so bad...

[Rudra]

What are you talking about? You are still rooted for animations. Or am I bugged and only I am?

[Zect]

3 hours ago, Rudra said:

What are you talking about? You are still rooted for animations. Or am I bugged and only I am?

A while back HC standardized the conventions for powers rooting, and one of the changes was that self-buffs should not root and (except the ones that require tohit checks, like souldrain, because then they are attacks and attacks should root). They still animation lock you, but you can move while the power is animating. (Attacks both animation lock and prevent movement.)
 

I have no opinion on this matter and my feelings on Paragon’s decision to root in the first place are mixed. That said, some other games are far worse. You should see ffxiv.

[Rudra]

1 minute ago, Zect said:

A while back HC standardized the conventions for powers rooting, and one of the changes was that self-buffs should not root and (except the ones that require tohit checks, like souldrain, because then they are attacks and attacks should root). They still animation lock you, but you can move while the power is animating. (Attacks both animation lock and prevent movement.)
 

I have no opinion on this matter and my feelings on Paragon’s decision to root in the first place are mixed. That said, some other games are far worse. You should see ffxiv.

Thanks. I was unaware and have not witnessed it on my own characters.

 

In that case, I concur with the OP.

[Sunsette]

If you don't like moving during your animation... Don't move.

 

I like the fact that I'm much more mobile now. I also suspect given that many of these moves are survival powers, it would make a lot of the new fight mechanics much less pleasant to play. 

[Saiyajinzoningen]

there are still a few powers that root iirc like

Reaction Time > martial combat > blasters

[Major_Decoy]

14 hours ago, Saiyajinzoningen said:

there are still a few powers that root iirc like

Reaction Time > martial combat > blasters

Reaction time has a debuff

[Outrider_01]

So can we nerf Invulnerable in the /Inv self?  If my memory is working, it toggled on and rooted you in place but required to toggle off to move. so there is that.

[Rudra]

32 minutes ago, Outrider_01 said:

So can we nerf Invulnerable in the /Inv self?  If my memory is working, it toggled on and rooted you in place but required to toggle off to move. so there is that.

And again I have to ask what the poster is talking about. The only /Inv set I know is /Invulnerability. And the only Invulnerability in the Invulnerability set I know of is Temp Invulnerability, which does not root the character and keep them from moving. Neither does Unyielding or Invincibility. I don't have Unstoppable, but I'm pretty sure it also does not keep you from moving while it is active. My Invulnerability Brute has no issues moving around, and the only powers I lack from the set are Dull Pain and Unstoppable.

[megaericzero]

I'm guessing they're talking about how Unyielding used to be called Unyielding Stance and immobilized the player while on.

[Rudra]

35 minutes ago, megaericzero said:

I'm guessing they're talking about how Unyielding used to be called Unyielding Stance and immobilized the player while on.

That was changed way back on Live well before shut down, wasn't it?

[megaericzero]

Totally. Paragonwiki says like issue 3 it was changed.