Preview combat voicing in character creation

I was wishing this was a thing back in FFXI, and yeah, still would be nice here too.

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Why are you all stopping at requesting only a preview?

Lets ask for a separate setting for the combat voice! Given your voice of choose, have two or more different sounds to pick for the combat will be good.

I turned myself into a Hyur midlander one time, I lasted a day before the weird grunting, and walk animations made me fantasia again. Would definitely love to preview combat voices, kind of luck of the draw, especially if you fantasia a lot.

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Originally Posted by Elamys

Can we please preview the combat noises our character makes in creation? That's going to be a lot more useful than the voice they use during some emotes I'm not going to use often. I picked a voice I liked the emote sound of only to find out it's the most annoying voice ever in combat.

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Holy hell I would also appreciate this. I made that mistake briefly when I first made my character and found out pretty quick that the voice was really really grating on the ears in combat. Had to remake cause I didnt have a phantasia at the time, and now every time I want to phantasia, I make the character I want first as an alt, attack some mobs, then phantasia. It works but its a pain in the butt.

There used to be a series of videos on youtube by a JP player that previewed every base voice emote and battle grunt with each race and gender. It was some of the most useful stuff when making a new character but they deleted their account or the videos got flagged for copyright or something a few years back :( I wish I had backed them up or something.

I would totally love more in depth previews!

I bet I know what voice you picked (I call it the mickey mouse voice). Every time I hear it in combat, I die inside.

I only use the Japanese voices (1-3) for all my characters; so far so good.

Yes please. Creating a new character for each voice was so tiresome. I've smacked countless squirrels and hurled myself off many ledges just for that small chance at hearing the injury grunts.

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Originally Posted by WellFooled

I'd be all for this. The voice samples they have aren't very good to begin with (Why is /chuckle the emote used instead of /laugh? My character has a perfectly sensible chuckle, but he laughs like Hojo on nitrous oxide) and the lack of any battle examples makes it worse.

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So very much this! I'm the type that spends hours perfecting my character before creation, so when I found out my /laugh sounded like a hyena, instead of the sensible voice that I chose, I was pretty pissed off. As it stands, the only way to reliably check your character's voice is to actually fully create and log-in with the character in order to test the emotes/battle noises, of you might get an unexpected surprise down the line.

They should just add the current basic emotes, run animations, and auto-attack to the character creator so you can really preview your character...