As title says.
Currently Classes and Jobs have the same animations, same attack patterns and motions so what would you guys think if they were spiced up a bit with new animations?
A Pugilist is a boxer he relies entirely on his hands and the old fighting animations had alot of jabs in the melee cycles that I think SE removed in favor of the current animations where the punches are focused. SE could simply put back the jabs and use the current fighting stance.
Monk could get a more Martial arts-eque stance and use the current animations where attacks seems to have a lot of force behind them.
Paladin could get a refined stance that shows that they're refined knights and not simple gladiators.
In the 2.0/ARR Screens we see Black Mage getting new casting animation that's alot more fitting than the simple one we have now and thats a step in the right direction now they just need to give WHM a better stance and I think they're set.
So what do you guys think?
PS: This is in not a petition or a request, I'm just amusing myself and would honestly be surprised if SE implemented anything close to what I'm talking about.
Extra:
I believe that the devs took a lot of shortcuts with animations in XIV that they didn't in XI and while I excuse this in 1.0 since the game was rushed and they had to focus else where while trying to fix it after it flopped, I can't excuse them for taking any more once ARR hits. The pray emote was disappointing for me because while it was supposed to be an XI throwback, they failed to recreate the animation and instead copied them for some races (check miqote pray vs Mithra /heal) note that they did great on other emotes but I would rather they don't take any more shortcuts on polishing the game.
FFXI Animations differed greatly between jobs and races.
Notice how the elvaan(Elezen) and the Hume(Hyur) casting black magic are alot different and unique.
This applies to weaponskills too, the animation changed for each race and gender.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oH7PY6YjMSY
Its impossible not to compare XI to XIV, and I just can't help but expect from XIV to do everything XI did and do it better.
Am I being unreasonable?