Neverwinter: PC

On the chest farming, here's a fun fact about chests. If you leave a dungeon and rejoin, all chests respawn. I did that when my quest progress bugged out in the spider queen lair dungeon thing with the drows, didn't get credit so thought I didn't click something and went back in the dungeon after everyone left. Turns out the 12 or so chests in the dungeon were all respawned. Ran to the end and it didn't fix the quest, however re-entering reset the chests again. I left after that so there might be a 3 reset limit haven't checked, but point is chests aren't hard to farm, nor do they give anything worth farming in the first place. It's fucking shit greens, shit enchants and sometimes random crafting basic mats, I don't think I've ever gotten anything worth anything in a chest. Crafting nodes are a bit more valuable, but having a daily limit on the amount of crafting nodes you can loot while in foundries would work just fine and be easy to implement(most likely). Make it high enough so that you can do a few normal foundries and not run into the limit, but you could cap it daily by just entering a "crafting node farm" foundry instead. Who cares really.

Anyway they limited the foundry too much for the sake of balance and whatever the fuck, so it's very boring for the most part and is just about text flavor and otherwise a very basic experience, probably even worse than the actual ingame quests too which had some interesting places and shit.

Maybe they'll fix shit later on and I'll check the game again then but at the moment I don't really see much that's interesting.

Animation locking is part of the design, it's used instead of casting times(granted they also use casting times on a few spells) and acts as a balancing point for the most powerful abilities. You have to figure out when you want to use your skills so they will land safely. It's a bit like waiting until it's safe to pop a 10secs cooldown in wow raiding, and it has obvious uses for the pvp balance(which arguably is a moot point for neverwinter since pvp is mostly shit anyway). I can agree that you should be able to cancel the animations(via a jump or specific abilities), however that also means those animations would need to be wasted(go on cooldown/do no dmg) as a compensation.

It's a good concept overall but the implementation here is a bit lacking. The dodge/block mechanic should simply cancel the current animation regardless of what it is, but the cooldown of abilities should be spent on cast so there is a downside. Mind you, this is how the GWF sprint works, ironically. If you sprint it'll cancel whatever you're doing, so you can animation cancel a lot of stuff with proper use of sprint in combat. Sadly the lack of invuln frames still makes it frustrating as fuck.

TERA had it right, you can cancel stuff with any of the dodge moves. There's a few things I'd change in the TERA combat but overall it's probably the best combat in a mmo, assuming you want to play the game and not just have a social chat room with some RPG elements mixed in.