[dev1032] Spell Casting Animations Needs More Love

Yeah I like the casting animations on the DoW classes lol

But I'm talking about improvements to the casting animations like magic circles, glowing sigils/runes, etc.

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Originally Posted by DoctorMog

Why you hatin' bro >.>

XD

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Welcome to the "I have blown bayhone's mind" club.

hopefully the animations will also include casting in passive mode.

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Originally Posted by DonMega

hopefully the animations will also include casting in passive mode.

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This has been stated numerous times and is even in 1.18's patch notes... it'll be here by 1.19

I dont think he was teasing, I think he was surprised not much had been said yet

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Originally Posted by Bayohne

The development team is currently looking into making positive adjustments in regards to the casting animations for THM and CON. :)

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Please forward to the dev team that I want my magic animations to look almost equal to this
http://youtu.be/kJ2aPHnxO8M

I'm not even kidding (of course make it to where it fits in an MMO though). IX had some of the best spell animations in all of the FF titles (IMO). And they kinda went meh after. Although XIII's were very pretty~ Spells should be flashy, and make you go OHHHHHHH AHHHHHHHHHH when you cast one.

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Originally Posted by PrettyPrincess

Spells should be flashy, and make you go OHHHHHHH AHHHHHHHHHH when you cast one.

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I find it ironic that FF players want spells to look like fireworks, but then complain about glowing weapons. Make up your minds, lol! :P

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Originally Posted by Bayohne

Lessee what players are saying about the latest post I made! Just gonna click this thread titled "[dev1032] Spell Casting Animations Needs More Love"... Just gotta scroll past my latest post which mentions "positive adjustments in regards to the casting animations for THM and CON"... read the latest post...

*head asplodes*

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Threads regarding the visual effects for spells that never received a rep response: 1, 2, 3.

Can you confirm that they plan to improve the visual effects of existing spells?

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Originally Posted by Alyssa

On a related note, I think it would be cool if there was an option to toggle an effect that lets the caster see the circular/conical radius of their AoEs. It could be displayed when you select the ability, before you use it.

Here are two god-awful drawings that I slapped together really quick in Microsoft Paint to illustrate what I mean, lol:
CON
THM

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lol Aly I love your drawings

Holland: XI had different animations per magic type and they were job-independent. Black, White, Songs, Ninjutsu, Summons, and Blue. WHM BLM RDM PLD DRK SCH all used the same Black/White animations.

There were also a few job ability animations, though Dancer added greatly to that number and AFAIK is the