Please give us the option to keep the old skill use animation

[Elmagor]

Both old and new skill animation have their own + and - sides

[Brinswith]

I'll throw my hat into the ring on this one as well. Really struggling to see the new animation and keep on having to check that they have actually fired rather than trust that they have.

[Cordovan]

We intend to create a toggle in the future that will let people swap between the new and old skill animation UI, but we currently can't promise an ETA until we get further down the road with it.

[Seregthol]

We intend to create a toggle in the future that will let people swap between the new and old skill animation UI, but we currently can't promise an ETA until we get further down the road with it.

So once again the Devs mess things up quickly...but fixing that same mess takes a long time. Yet another reason why SSG should take customer feedback seriously BEFORE they change things.

[Fluffy]

Just Turn It Off, Like You Do with Everything Else

Fixed.

BTW, while i have you here, please remember that without the players (you consistently ignore) EVEN THE ONES THAT DO NOT POST, you have no game.

10 Million Reasons Why You're Still Here, dot dot dot

That Is All

Fluff

[Arnenna]

We intend to create a toggle in the future that will let people swap between the new and old skill animation UI, but we currently can't promise an ETA until we get further down the road with it.

Could it just be turned off or rolled back until the toggle is created? Some folk are having very bad reactions to this. Sure some of us just don't like it, but with some, it's a health factor. That needs to be catered to, immediately IMO.

[Oddessia]

We intend to create a toggle in the future that will let people swap between the new and old skill animation UI, but we currently can't promise an ETA until we get further down the road with it.

I appreciate the answer, thank you.

I'm with the others here, can we please just roll it back until this mysterious ETA happens? It's made playing my LM and Cappy impossible in a group. I have stopped playing them. I don't want to just shelve 2 fantastic characters for raiding because I'm unable to play, and that's what I've had to do. I adore those characters, please don't make this a thing.

Why wasn't the consistent feedback on BR about this issue listened to? Or even responded to? Why was it pushed ahead anyways, and now so detested that you have to make a whole new solution for us?

Head scratcher. Please for future, test random changes on ALL characters, since this heavily handicaps LMs and Cappies and is almost no issue at all on dps classes.

-Ods

P.S. Edited to tone down my response, as after listening to Cordstream today I feel more assured, and know it is now being handled. Thank you!

[Terannl]

Could it just be turned off or rolled back until the toggle is created? Some folk are having very bad reactions to this. Sure some of us just don't like it, but with some, it's a health factor. That needs to be catered to, immediately IMO.

THIS I am one of the younger players >20 and I can't tell if skills have gone off or not

[Rugongrod]

I'm going to chime in on this. The flaming border that happens when you fire off a skill is like not at all helpful. It's distracting. I fire off a skill and then wait for the flame to go around it. It makes my game experience so much less fun.

[Laurelinarien]

We intend to create a toggle in the future that will let people swap between the new and old skill animation UI, but we currently can't promise an ETA until we get further down the road with it.

I work behind a screen all day, wear X-Blue glasses and I never get my eyes itchy & burnt out as I've had been feeling since this change was made. Whether I want to play less or not, it's forcing me to.

[Fluffy]

I'm going to chime in on this. The flaming border that happens when you fire off a skill is like not at all helpful. It's distracting. I fire off a skill and then wait for the flame to go around it. It makes my game experience so much less fun.

Couldn't have said it better myself! and i did, Twice, and no, I Did Not Stutter

Thanks Mate

[Braer]

A toggle. I dare say newcomers to the game might more easily get used to the animation but I'd hazard a guess it would put a few off playing, as it has a few of us old timers who are clickers. I hope it defaults to the old rather than new style when implemented. If you wanted to make an improvement just making the old border a tiny bit wider would have suited me. I wonder if it's a Texas hold'em "all in" mentality rather than measured calculated betting approach. Blink in Morse Code if the art department holds you hostage... can't figure out any other reason right now.

[LuckyShot]

We intend to create a toggle in the future that will let people swap between the new and old skill animation UI, but we currently can't promise an ETA until we get further down the road with it.

So same time frame as fixing the Guard shield use rank LI.

[Arabani]

We intend to create a toggle in the future that will let people swap between the new and old skill animation UI, but we currently can't promise an ETA until we get further down the road with it.

Why is it so hard to make a toggle feature? You have all the assests, they've been in the game for years. And if it is a really complex and time consuming thing to do, just turn the new animations off, roll back to the previous build, as many people have suggested here. I'm sure it won't take more then an hour to bring servers down and copy several files.

The game is literally unplayable in the current state. It is a very ugrent matter and must be solved immediately!

[Nostro44]

Nightmare on LM - pet skills are on auto-fire so it's like having a set of flashing lights at the bottom of the screen.

[manooly]

I agree! Please put this back to the old animation or at least let us toggle it. Thank you!

[canyouaddcolour]

We intend to create a toggle in the future that will let people swap between the new and old skill animation UI, but we currently can't promise an ETA until we get further down the road with it.

Thanks for listening to feedback on the skill activation animation changes and deciding to put resources toward a toggle.

I compleyely agree with others that if it's not a significant hurdle that reverting the change (to old animations) and then releasing the updated animations with the toggle when it's ready would be much better for many players.

[Feldanor]

We intend to create a toggle in the future that will let people swap between the new and old skill animation UI, but we currently can't promise an ETA until we get further down the road with it.

Un do it then. Has there been any positive reaction to it? I havent met 1 person yet who thinks its a good idea.

[Winnower]

Cordovan.

Thank you for checking and replying to this thread. Unfortunately it does me no good for them to say "we are going to fix it at some future date" -- this has been said about many things, including, e.g., the guardian class. This is a MEDICAL issue for a number of people, it needs to be addressed.

Your players don't care particularly whether it gets a toggle, or if it gets rolled back completely (i.e., turned off). But something must be done, or you are going to lose people you would have otherwise kept. And all over something that didn't need to be done in the first place. Not an excellent piece of judgment by whoever decided to roll it out.

[DavidmeetHal]

We intend to create a toggle in the future that will let people swap between the new and old skill animation UI, but we currently can't promise an ETA until we get further down the road with it.

This is not acceptable, there are many posts here in this thread bringing up health problems with eyesight due to this change.

[gildhur]

I love the new animations.

[Norowen]

This reminds me of when we first got the "new item in bag" highlight effect, does anyone else remember that? It got changed to what it is today after lots of feedback on the forums. But this is worse because it's there on your screen all the time the UI is visible.

I don't think the LOTRO player base is getting any younger, eyesight concerns are a real issue to be considered these days.

Yep. Devs finally gave us an option not to use it, which I quickly added to my saved ui layouts.

As others have stated, this isn't just an "I don't care for this change" issue for some of us. I got physically ill with headache and nausea after playing just a couple hours with this new 'feature'. It took me awhile to realize it's the new skill animations causing it.

And I totally agree that not only is the skill on/off graphic extremely difficult to see, which it never was before!, the swirly "hey, this thing is being activated!" animation is just unnecessary and actually distracting. It was easy enough to tell when a skill was firing before, and it didn't make me so sick I have to stop playing.

But the biggest question of all is: With all the actual bugs, balance issues, and other broken things, why is ANYONE wasting time changing something that isn't broken? Many of us actually put a lot of money into the game not just for play enhancements, but to help ensure that the game continues. It's disheartening to see where some of that money is being spent.

[Norowen]

Thanks for listening to feedback on the skill activation animation changes and deciding to put resources toward a toggle.

I completely agree with others that if it's not a significant hurdle that reverting the change (to old animations) and then releasing the updated animations with the toggle when it's ready would be much better for many players.

Agreed. Appreciate you responding Cord, but this is not a small thing for some number of us. It's a game stopper. Roll this change back if you can't deliver an option to revert to the old style in the next few days. Re-release it when you have the toggle implemented.

[Wyllshire]

We intend to create a toggle in the future that will let people swap between the new and old skill animation UI, but we currently can't promise an ETA until we get further down the road with it.

Here we go again with the whole "in the future" vague promised fix. How about a better idea. Just permanently drop this ridiculous "sparkle" change, and call it good.

[MistyMountains]

Please put this at top of priority list. This effects the gameplay of every single one of my characters. I don't mind a patch and downtime if it makes my classes and my performance back to how it was.
I urge you to make this a top priority ASAP.