so the rumor is that pets lost animations because....

[wildsprite]

[steps on milk crate and starts rant]
so the rumor is that pets lost animations because some players were messing up on stuns in delve due to wyvern animations?http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/images/smilies/mad.png
If this is true SE I call this a copout, rather than fix it so its easier to descern things in these delve fights you just remove the animations entirely.
If you want players to come back this is exactly the wrong move to make. this alone is making me rethink if I'm going to resub when the free time is up.

I really dont appreciate not being able to see the attacks of my Avatars. and worse the enemy they are fighting just stands there too....c'mon SE you really need to fix this. put the animations back. make the moves easier to descern in those delve fights rather than take them out...

you could have made it optional for those players who were complaining to turn off the animations. but honestly to take them out entirely defys any form of logic I can think of unless you're just being lazy

that is all
[gets off milk crate and hands it to the next person in line]

[Alhanelem]

When I originally read that in the patch notes, i thought they were talking about the animations YOU play when performing pet abiltiies. Fark those! but no, it's the animations of pet attacks? that's nonsense. It should be a toggle option under effects.

[wildsprite]

When I originally read that in the patch notes, i thought they were talking about the animations YOU play when performing pet abiltiies. Fark those! but no, it's the animations of pet attacks? that's nonsense. It should be a toggle option under effects.

yep its the animations of the pet attacks, well any pet animations really. they just move in and you see they are attacking in the log but they dont move and the enemy they are fighting doesn't move(I'm going to assume that this is only if it is just the pet attacking). I find it disturbing to say the least bit.

as a SMN I rely on my Avatar to attack. I wanna see what it's doing not some log telling me what it's doing. I didnt even try PUP or DRG as this just put a sour taste in my mouth for this game at the moment.

[Martel]

Well, I dunno about BST or SMN, but my wyvern still has breath animations. <,< Just no red lines while charging. Which was the issue in the first place.

[wildsprite]

Well, I dunno about BST or SMN, but my wyvern still has breath animations. <,< Just no red lines while charging. Which was the issue in the first place.

does your wyvern show attack animations besides its breaths? or does it just flap its wings till it does a breath while you see that it's doing something in the logs??

for SMN the Avatar moves in close then just stops moving while you see logs of what is happening. I am not paying for a text based game I want to see the animations darnit. and the enemy fighting the Avatar doesnt move either when it is just the Avatar fighting it.

[Martel]

My wyvern is diving at mobs as usual.

[Draylo]

I think something is wrong with your PC/dat files. I see the avatar performing the blood pact, the only thing removed was the red lines and the sound that goes with it. I think those should have been a toggle and not fully removed myself. How can you not see the mega boss readying a move when they are so big and some of them even change behavior like Tojil crouching. People are so bad.

[ZoMBie343]

By animations removed, I think they refer to the red lines, when doing a special ability. Not sure though.

[Alhanelem]

OK, well, at least on PUP, I still see my pet's normal attack animations. that's a relief.

[wildsprite]

okay so after seeing your responses I did a file check, you were right it was dat file corruption. logged in after the file repair and the animations are back. the only reason I didnt check them before was because the notes said the animations would nolonger be displayed

thank you for your responses. I probably wouldnt have checked if you had not said something

[Zeargi]

They did remove the animations for pets, the thing it's that it's removed for others and not you. If you are the master then you can see the full effect, if not then the indication is only visible in the chat log. Which this sucks major for SMN because people can no longer see that you're trying to buff them if they have filters on.

[Rwolf]

I don't see why they couldn't at least reach a middle ground and create a new simple animation, like gold lines instead. Or use another existing not often used animation in the dats to replace it if they don't want to devote much effort. I can accept the issue with stunning even though it doesn't affect me personally, but it just created other issues in its stead. I hope the development team can come to a compromise and at least replace it with something else for pets.