Animation canceling, Dodging, weaving

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I personally prefer j-rock

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It's a clip of a dude who clicks his skills with a fucking mouse. And Noaani has said before that he never even needed to look at his bar in combat (nor did he really had the time). And I trust Noaani when he says that because I was the same. I saw multiple videos with people clicking skills in L2, when I was trying to find gameplay that would represent my lvl of skill.

So the "context" here is that EQ2 might be way faster than what was shown in the clip, but it was not shown - hence "out of context".

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Yeah, I wouldn't know how exactly not looking at the bar or clicking it influences the flow of your combat because I haven't played EQ2 extensively. But Noaani has and says that the combat is fast and requires a ton of actions.

And I can draw a parallel between that information and my own experience of "I know for sure that the videos that I could post do not represent the gameplay that I experienced", so why couldn't it be the same for EQ2.

And I can even look at BDO videos and see just a few dodges here and there with way more "just standing and unloading skills onto a target until it dies (usually a few seconds at most)", which in comparison to other presented "gameplay difficulty" doesn't quite match. So my assumption would be "the videos don't represent how the game plays, because I see 2 people saying that BDO's combat requires a ton of inputs, while videos don't really show that to me".

And at this point you'd say "just trust the people who have played the game way more than you", except you'd be megahypocritical in saying that because you never trust Noaani's word and just like to say "I can see all that I need to see in the videos".

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Do people click abilities in BDO? Can they even? And if they can/could, would you consider them being good at pvp if they did? Could they even be good at pvp if they had the time to take their eyes off of their opponents?

Cause in L2 you didn't really have time to take your eyes off of your enemy. The ttk was usually too quick for you to do that. And from all the things you've said about BDO, I'd assume it's the same there. And you like to ask people "how good were you in pvp? what's your gear score?", which would imply to me that you do care about the percentile of skill of other people in these threads. We've usually talked in the context of top lvl content, be it pvp or pve. Now you've shifted to "everyday person, rather than top 1%er". But according to that logic, both Noaani and Dygz are "everyday players of BDO" whose opinion should be considered completely valid when talking about combat in that game.