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LoL at all the 2h thrust complaints... it's not that bad... it could certainly be worse.
If you think this is a valid argomentation, we can't neither complain about bugs..there could be worse bug.
Did you tested it? I don't really think, or better, i hope you didn't, otherwise is sad that you can't see the things that all the others can see.
I said a precise problem of this animation, that is not a cry about "bring back our stabs". It is a valid problem that you should try to remove, not laugh about it. I don't care if you decided to nerf 2h stab but keep the old 1h op stab, who cares! 2h is still the best weapon, so it's ok to try to re-balance it. But i don't think that removing one kind of attack from swords (since is what you have done actually, just go ingame and see that 90% of 2h are using a non-stab weapon) can resolve something.
Maybe instead to think that is always the fault of the others, you should start to see things with different eyes. There are some valid add in this patch, it is undeniable. But it is as much undeniable that some are total crap, like the 2h animation. I'm sure that the idea behind this change was good (even because the old animation wasn't really realistic, while this new one, when will be fixed, will be much more realistic), but the actual result isn't. You can accept this criticism, or close your eyes....anyway will be the game that will suffer from your decisions.