What animations would you change if you could?

Another one for male Elezen... the "logging out at the inn" animation. All my other characters just go to sleep; my Elezen seems to be striking a pose. >_<

...actually, add male Au Ras' weirdly rigid sleeping pose as well.


Both characters have perfectly normal sleeping positions using /doze, so I really don't know what happened with the logout animations.

My first move would be to decouple weapon stances with gender. Really no reason to lock weapon stances behind gender.

Next I would fix Male Miqo'te hands/fingers.

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Originally Posted by Eloah

Most battle poses are based on past Finsl Fantasy Protagonists. The Female Paladin battle stance is based on Lightning's. It just probably looks odd since the weapons are different. See how it looks with the Blazefire Saber and no shield.

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Are you referring to the /cpose where the sword is held like Lightning does in 13, or /battlestance which is the emote?

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Originally Posted by Kyuuen

My first move would be to decouple weapon stances with gender. Really no reason to lock weapon stances behind gender.

Next I would fix Male Miqo'te hands/fingers.

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I am not sure if it is like this for all races and genders but it drives me absolutely apeschite that the index finger is longer than all the other fingers on my character. It makes her hands look disproportionately large; like she can rip a lobster in half with them. There's probably some reason why they did that, but that reason eludes me.

Red Mage sprinting and running animation.
Midlander idle poses.
Catboy hands.
White mage sprinting animation.
Give Roegadyn DRG and WAR battle stances for all the races.
Deployment Tactics.
All the not-supposed-to-be-able-to-fly mounts having at least a more fluid flying animation instead of just walking on air.

Femroe Blow kiss and Dance.

The Blow kiss is so goofy and they didn't even try with the dance.

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I am not sure if it is like this for all races and genders but it drives me absolutely apeschite that the index finger is longer than all the other fingers on my character. It makes her hands look disproportionately large; like she can rip a lobster in half with them. There's probably some reason why they did that, but that reason eludes me.

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There is actually a reason, or so I've heard. The WoL has larger than average hands so they can hold all weapons easily. I've noticed that all player characters do appear to have larger than average hands...and of course NPCs use the same models for the most part, so everyone in Eorzea has giant lobster-rippers.

The hand size isn't what really bothers me. For me and the case of Male Miqo'te is that their hands are locked in a position that it seems they want to claw the hell out of something.

Bring BRDs Wide Volley back and get rid of Quick Nock. They were the same potency so why get rid of the one with a good animation. And I hate everything about WHM and staves, please hold it with both hands.

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Originally Posted by Xion136

Are you referring to the /cpose where the sword is held like Lightning does in 13, or /battlestance which is the emote?

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The /close I believe. I may have misunderstood, merging your post with similar ones and forgetting the difference. But yes the idle pose, not the emote.

If I had the choice I'd make it so that PLDs hold their sword with both hands while in Sword Oath a-la Steiner from FFIX when he's readying his weapon, and change the animations for the combo weaponskills to reflect this. In Shield Oath they would hold it as normal.

Lalafell teleportation animation.

Maybe I won't run my fist through my face. That'd be nice.

The default female aura stand. It looks like one of our legs is twisted in an unnatural way
male aura regular run makes them look like they should be move twice the speed they are
smn vpose/bstance are both hideous
and finally...
anything lala do - its all so cutesy it just makes me want to kick them all the more

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I am not sure if it is like this for all races and genders but it drives me absolutely apeschite that the index finger is longer than all the other fingers on my character. It makes her hands look disproportionately large; like she can rip a lobster in half with them. There's probably some reason why they did that, but that reason eludes me.

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The index finger isn't actually longer, it's just an illusion because the fingers are slightly curled, and the index finger is straightest so it looks longest.

I can see the same effect on my own hands. It's a normal relaxed position for the fingers to sit in.

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Originally Posted by Anarnee

Femroe Blow kiss and Dance.

The Blow kiss is so goofy and they didn't even try with the dance.

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Have you seen the male Elezen dance? (I use the term loosely.) At least Fem Roe is trying to perform some kind of dance steps.

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Originally Posted by AnimaAnimus

smn vpose/bstance are both hideous

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Oh goodness. They were so awful I'd struck them from my mind.

I just unlocked those emotes for my male alt character and they're a little better than the female ones, but still with weird poses and not looking at all like we're preparing for battle.

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Originally Posted by AnimaAnimus

smn vpose/bstance are both hideous

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The SMN/SCH poses don't look bad on males, and especially Male lalafells

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and finally... anything lala do - its all so cutesy it just makes me want to kick them all the more

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I can agree to a good amount of these. But, you have to admit, anything that looks cringeworthy on other races, like the SMN/SCH emote, looks at least tolerable on lalas.

Midlander running animations.

Mnk running animation.

let's see...
/hum on female Roes
all of Dragoon jumps. They look nice at normal speed but if you freeze it frame by frame in /gpose.... no. just no.
whichever scholar "point your finger" animation they get which msses up my character's neck.

I would make it so when female characters do the Sun Drop dance they are actually doing the Sun Drop dance and not some phoned in half baked version. Seriously, the female sun drop dance is just...why? So yeah, I'd change that.

More ear/tail animations for Miqo'te.

I want my tail to wiggle when I'm in battle stance.

/laugh for Miqotes. Can't use that as it is without looking insane.

And I'd like a slightly less princessy run for female midlanders.

I generally prefer my look and voice as a midlander, but I'm a highlander because overall I just don't like the midlander idle poses at all. I feel like the midlander idle poses are just so dull and awkward. If I could have some of the highlander poses on my midlander that would be great.

Also would love a "wall lean" idle pose.

Most of the Male Elezen animations are pretty awful tbh, compared to every other race Elezen definitely gets gipped on nice racial emotes. Aside from that I would change the SMN spell animations to make them look more like primal abilities. That's probably it

The blue mage's unsheath animation. its a little sketchy just standing, but while running I'm pretty sure its just like broken, it just sorta glitches out on the spin, not sure if other people have noticed/bothered by it. It's cool how it spins but yea idk I think its broken. (female cat if that means anything)


minor one, I would kinda like the option for ninjas to swap between Naruto run vs. rouge run. the ninja run has grown on me admittedly but it would be nice to be able to choose between them.

/cry animation. Make it /crocodiletears and give an actual /cry animation pls.

Male elezen changepose 1. It's just raising a hand on his hip without changing the pose otherwise which I find lame. Also the last changepose for sitting on ground is the same as the basic sitting pose, except with the other leg raised. =u=

I'd kill to have a male elezen changepose that's just him standing normally hyur/roe style. I don't like how my duskwight is forced to stand half-sideways all the time. T_T I'd be happy if SE gave us all the NPC retainer poses.

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Originally Posted by Haprimac

I'd kill to have a male elezen changepose that's just him standing normally hyur/roe style. I don't like how my duskwight is forced to stand half-sideways all the time. T_T I'd be happy if SE gave us all the NPC retainer poses.

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Same. The half-sideways standing pose does weird things with positioning in cutscenes sometimes - they're basically facing the wrong direction, and if they're supposed to be standing beside someone, they can end up having their back turned toward the person instead.

The standing /cposes (for all races) can be useful for actual posing, but I don't like using them the rest of the time. I don't like how my character has to shift into position every time they stop moving. I much prefer leaving them in "boring" straight stance for normal gameplay.

In 1.0 your character’s death animation depended on their race and gender, right?

What happened to them on the way to 2.0?

Animations I'd change...

NIN running/jumping/idle animations. Put them back to Rogue ones which are like, 1000x cooler and infinitely less weeby. At least as an option!

SMN/SCH running/sprinting animations. Normally, I like to use the toggle to keep weapons unsheathed while doing a dungeon and the like (Since, logically, it wouldn't make sense to sheathe your weapon while in the middle of say, an Imperial base or a monster infested dungeon) but my gosh are the animations with the book out just dire, to the point where I explicitly manually sheathe them to spare my eyes. (Also, it would be neat if these 2 classes got some diversity in animations across the board with stuff like running and idling. Kind of like how BLM and WHM have distinct animations for their same weapon)

BRD Peloton animation. Okay, the class is focused around songs and playing the harp (Bow). Where tf are they pulling this flute/whistle/piccolo/recorder thing from? I get it for the Performance stuff, where you can say they'd literally go and bring a particular instrument for the occasion. But with Peloton? They randomly bring out an entirely new instrument that sees no use in literally any other part of their kit... On the flip side, MCH's makes total sense, pressing a button on their Aetherotransformer. Simple, sensible, effective. (If somewhat limiting to glamour because having an interaction with it means that many people's wish of being able to hide it is less feasible because then the animation would be very odd)

DRG's Chaos Thrust. "Lemme just slash at you with this thrusting weapon". Heck, it feels as though FFXIV's single damage number for an attack is how this attack would be shown if it put up a damage number per swing of an attack... 0, 0, oh now you've stabbed them with your spear, here's actual damage >.>

Female char beeing able to put swords on the shoulder and use male poses too

Not sure if it's the same on other races, but basically all mch animations on Roe, been leveling it recently and the way my torso twists and turns during the animations looks very contorted it's quite freaky sometimes.

All the idle poses for female lalas are pretty bad so I wouldn't mind changing them to pretty much anything else

Gonna throw the assumption that most of the default animations were just altered enough to differentiate from the 1.0 counterparts due to the limited time there was during the 2.0 rebuild/reboot.

That being said, it's not an excuse for janky animations and I wouldn't mind the following changed;
-The aformentioned cutscene 'start, stop, spin, stop, start' thing. C'mon, when WoW or GW cutscenes have more fluid animaton, you know something is amiss.
-Lalafell walking animations. They look to have made a mess and are waddling to the nearest rest-room.
-Fem'ra running (not sprinting) animations. Looks stiff and robotic. I guess the same can be said for the males though I don't play one, so I can't see it from the back.
-Maleqo'te sitting. Really don't need the squat thing. And their idle 'claw hands' thing. We get it, they're cat people...

That's all I can think of off the top of my head. I'll edit as/when if more come to me.

I was disappointed by the animation when moving back on SDS Fenrir >_< Motorcycles do not have reverse gear...

There are many of the 1.0 animations that I don't like so much, but I like a lot of the animations that came with HW and SB. Like the Paladin combo skills - the 1.0 ones don't look like I imagine a PLD moving, it's too much of Gladiator. I would like it if a lot of jobs would get upgraded animations that match their job more instead of their class.

I would also like it if every race could get another normal idle pose to choose as default. For example the male Au Ra default standing pose. Why can't they stand with their feet a little more apart from each other?

There are also poses like calling for your mount or interacting with quest items where everyone stands like a Midlander Hyur for those seconds. I hate that so much. I don't want my female character to stand like a gil spammer.

I want to be able to sit side-saddle on horses and chocobos with my female Au Ra. So an option to turn on/off sidle-saddle for other races would be great.

I also don't like the MNK and BLM poses with their weapon drawn. But I rarely play those classes anyway. Still, I would love multiple options for battle stances.

I would also play (for example) Warrior more with my female character if the poses were more feminine. It doesn't look nice when my female Au Ra moves like a brutish berserker. And I can't play healers with male characters because the poses are too feminine for my taste. It may be nice and perfect if you made a male character that is supposed to move like that, but if you made a character that is supposed to be like a stereotypically male it seems wrong to play healers, esp. WHM and AST. No offense meant. But we just create different types of characters.

Lack of an EVIL GLASSES Emote. (Ie where you set your first two fingers on the bridge of the glasses and push them into place) We already have a good guy version.

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Originally Posted by kidalutz

Lack of an EVIL GLASSES Emote. (Ie where you set your first two fingers on the bridge of the glasses and push them into place) We already have a good guy version.

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Hey! Nothing evil about that! It's just a necessary NEUTRAL action!

PLD: Divine Veil is...you toss your sword up in the air and catch it? That's what imparts a holy shield that reduces damage on your comrades?

This isn't an emote exactly, but one thing I would love is if when a paladin uses sword oath, the shield disappeared and they held their sword with two hands.

Not animation related but whenever you're in town and surrounded by a group of people in close proximity, there's ambient chatter sounds. One of them sounds like a Lala male going "woAAHo" and it happens, idk, every 20 seconds? It's realllllly obnoxious.

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Originally Posted by Yeol

More ear/tail animations for Miqo'te.

I want my tail to wiggle when I'm in battle stance.

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It does for DRK and WAR.

As for what I'd change
Drk: Female /cpose, good lord, do you want to damage the tip of your sword? At least give the option for us to use the male version.
SMN / SCH : The weapon drawn sprint looks like they were running to the restroom and didn't make it.
Pld: vpose and bstance just feel very lackluster compared to WAR and DRK.
WAR : Female /cpose, like with DRK give us the option to use the male version.