Does weapon redraw have a negative effect anymore?

I've heard it both ways. One person says "if you redraw, the rest of the animation goes faster to compensate". Another says "nothing changes; redraw is a straight loss to damage". Yet another says "some powers are compensated, others aren't."

So what's the story? I'm on a BR/Kin corruptor and half my group says I'm screwing myself with the immense redraw. (And they are right in one sense: the amount of redraw is unbelievable.)

Originally, redraw was supposed to have no negative penalty (there was a pause after all weapon attacks the length of the draw). In practice, it was a total mess, some were neutral, some had pauses that were too long, and others were too short.

Around the time of Dual Blades' addition, the pause in the weapon attacks animations were removed (meaning there because a redraw penalty, but weapon sets didn't look horrible anymore and did improved damage generally).

I've heard people claim that animations are now sped up if you draw your weapon with it... which I'm fairly certain isn't true, as I've never seen a redname say that. It wouldn't be too hard to test if someones willing to take the time to do it properly, though.

We've been saving Paragon City for eight and a half years. It's time to do it one more time.

when im playing a weapon set the redraw always feels like it takes forever, i hate the redraw so much i usually avoid playing weapon sets with a conflicting secondary (ie a lot of redraw)

Last official word I heard on this subject was back when BAB and Castle worked to remove the "baked in" redraw times from all the various weapon sets. That did wonders for those sets' DPS, but also meant that redraw was an unequivocally bad thing in that regard.

I've also heard of the "animation times are faster if you redraw" deal, but I haven't actually seen anything official stating that. Personally, I have extreme doubts on this as far as I can tell, that sort of dynamic animation time modification just doesn't exist. Or rather, didn't until very recently with the advent of Titan Weapons' Momentum mechanic.

Whatever the case may be though, I'd still go out of my way to avoid redraw. It's just annoying as hell.

Still waiting for his Official BackAlleyBrawler No-Prize

It exists and it drives me crazy. I consider this a major item that I would like to see fixed, even if it means killing off the cutsie and unnecessary weapon draw animation and the weapon just appears from nowhere.

It used to be the case that weapons stayed drawn as long as your character was in attack mode. I don't remember which issue removed this by adding redraw functionality that more closely resembled what we have now, but the reason they did it was that the majority of emotes, of which there were far fewer back then, looked absurd with a weapon drawn. The bow emote, for instance, cause katana users to neatly impale themselves through the head. Secondary powers had similar problems. To reinstate constantly drawn weapons they'd have to add thousands of new animations, combining every weapon set with every possible primary, secondary, pool and temporary combination, and even then people would be angry because you still wouldn't be able to emote with a weapon drawn unless they did approximately the same amount of work making all of those compatible as well. I'd rather they focus on other things.

I've heard from a couple players too that weapon redraw times don't impact DPS, but the weapon character I have certainly didn't feel that much different from they did 2+ years ago when last I played them.

I have a BS/Regen character that's not too bad (weapon redraws are minimal unless I use a self-heal), a AR/Devices Blaster (I don't remember many problems here, but the character's been on the back-burner for a while now), and a new Kinetic/Dual Pistol character I've been enjoying so-far (the redraw on DP is pretty fast, and considering both powersets are close-ranged, they seem to have a decent synergy).

really its a moot point, as unless the devs take a powerset with redraw.
for example dual blades...

copy it and alter the code of the copy to remove redraw.

then have 2 identically built/enhanced what have you characters run the same sequence of power chains on identical targets (not including random variances as that would be impossible)

there would be no way of saying yes it does or no it doesn't.

either deal with the redraw and move on, or don't play a powerset that has it.

not trying to start an arguement or troll, this is just my opinion.

I didn't used to care about redraw, but the more I saw it, the more I came to hate it. My BS/Regen is constantly redrawing his sword. MOG > Redraw. Reconstruction > Redraw. Dull Pain > Redraw. Hasten > Redraw. Yes, I know that the weapon popping in looks a little strange, but it looks equally strange when a weapon disappears the instant you use a non-weapon power. The weapon gets drawn from thin air, too.

I believe there are still a few powers where weapon redraw is still "baked-in". I'm fairly certain this is the case with Assassin Strike, for example. i.e. The actual "crouch and then strike" part of the animation will be shortened if you had to draw your weapon first such that the total time of draw-then-strike is the same as just striking with the weapon already drawn.

May also still be true of pool powers that use weapons, like Mace Mastery. I think they only re-worked primary/secondary weapon powersets to remove draw time from the attack animation.