Its active (or reactive), thats better than any cooldown mmo you have played
Not sure what articles you are reading, but the consensus between the ones I've read from Pax Prime have said that combat takes a few minutes to get use to, but after that is very enjoyable. Because the combat controls are different from other games, it took some time to adapt to the gamestyle, but ultimately proved to be an enjoyable and rewarding experience.
Combat is different in Eso from other MMO'S i like the old way, so im a bit in FFXIV Fever, i just like the old healing way.
Eso trys something new, will it work maybe its hard to tell right know, i cant really tell if it works in Raid or PVP.
We just have to wait until release.
Considering that those that have actually played TESO aren't allowed to talk about it.......
Not the ones who play on conventions, and those came always back very positive
I think it looks OK.. Ive seen it too, people complain it looks boring, but it always been like that, some people want all kind of crazy animations and colors etc, especially some handicapped who cant aim or do anything than watch. For me this is positive improvement from Rift, at least something different. Anyway I can kinda understand the complaints but like I said its ok for me. Bottom line is that they created new kind of MMO combat.
It totaly DOES NOT, read interviews from different sources of latest build from PAX PRIME. They said it is very good and skyrim like.
Some older articles (few months back) didn't like it when they were allowed a hands-on preview, but it must have been tweaked since then