Suggestion: More Battle stance animations

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Originally Posted by Zebraoracle

I would actually love more battle stances. I'd also love casting animation variants where we don't use the weapons as foci but sadly I know that will never happen.

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Same, I'd love if they could port over the XI casting animations, at least for Black magic, since the White Magic animation from XI would probably have some overlap with Sage's animation (when you extend your arm up in the air it's more fast paced and energetic compared to XI's but I can already hear people complaining it overlaps too much, still love the XI White magic animation though, there's a calmness to it and I think a good healer should embody those vibes in a diegesis kinda way). Wouldn't mind some revisions for Roe's and Hroth's animations for a number of the 2H Jobs like DRG DRK and WAR, just looks really bad running with your weapon out (tho DRK is more in line with the other races but it's equally weird looking for them imo). And should they ever do I hope they allow any race to use the Elvaan variants of those animations, it was a race Nomura had input on and while I don't think he decreed anything about it one way or another, it is interesting that it's the only race to have a slightly altered Black Magic casting animation and the only race that had cloth physics for its White Magic casting animation. If anything it probably just came about because it was one of the earlier races they had decided upon, I do wish we could get to see what the other races animations would have looked like if they were equally as fleshed out.

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Originally Posted by Atelier-Bagur

I also would've loved if they did racial specific battle stances and victory poses, kinda like how in WoW each race had their own way of wielding a weapon type.

I still would want this to be an option to share via cpose but I guess the easy thing to ask is to allow us to use both gender idles...or heck even also share all race idles

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XI had these for battle stances, as each Race held their drawn weapons differently, even had unique Weaponskill animations depending on player race for nearly all of them.

They're unlikely to do something like this for the simple reason that they probably want every Job to be recognizable by their stance (to an extent), especially with their "visual identity" as diluted as it is, not that I'm complaining, they should dilute it even further and to make things easier on themselves for new Jobs to come

It is a big wish since there are various ways on how you hold a weapon, attack and defend. They have a different sprint animation in Crystal Conflict with Swift Sprint (when you get out of he spawning area) for example.
Maybe in the distant future but i think it'd help building your character a lot more with these options