Regarding Viera Emotes

Hello,

I have two characters, one Raen Au Ra and one Rava Viera, and I've noticed something odd about the Veira emotes that express happiness/excitement/ect:

They are very. . . subdued. I'm wondering if this was done on purpose? From what I have gathered in game from talking to NPCs and doing the Fanow quests, the Viera are a serious race, but there was nothing to indicate that they aren't capable of expressing joy to the same extent as the other races.

I am a bit disappointed with the following:

• /joy: "you motion joyfully" - character "poses" with her hand on her hip
• /happy: "you are uncontainably jubilant!" - character puts her hand on her chest and sighs
• /rally: "You engage in general japery" - character does more of a "psych" move by holding out her arm with her hand in a fist and jerking it downward as if to say "We can do this!"

Those are the only three I have any complaints about. My favorite emote BY FAR with the Viera is the /huh emote. It is absolutely sass-tastic and I wouldn't change it for anything in the world!

Are there any Viera emotes that you feel do not match the descriptions given in the chat log when they are performed? Any favorites? Also, if someone would like to respond to my question about why this might have been done, that would be great.

Rally is just a weird text choice, I think - you get different text log descriptions if you have something targeted while you do emotes, and /rally is "you try to cheer [target] up", which makes more sense for the animation and how you're sometimes prompted to use it in quests.

For the most part I like the way they are, there are already a few races that have pretty exuberant emote animations and I like that they are a bit more subdued. I will agree that /joy is a bit strange though, hand on hip doesn't really convey joy to me.

I like the generally rather reserved nature of the Viera emotes.

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Originally Posted by Jandor

I like the generally rather reserved nature of the Viera emotes.

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I really like how they are too. You also have to remember that they can live to be 300-400 years so most of the ones we meet as well as possibly our player characters could be old enough to be your grandma. It’s nice that they’re all mellowed out, especially with how weirdly idol-ish the au ra are.

If viera had better/more hairstyles, I’d still be one...

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Originally Posted by MikkoAkure

I really like how they are too. You also have to remember that they can live to be 300-400 years so most of the ones we meet as well as possibly our player characters could be old enough to be your grandma. It’s nice that they’re all mellowed out, especially with how weirdly idol-ish the au ra are.

If viera had better/more hairstyles, I’d still be one...

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Was the hats, or lack thereof, that did it for me.

That & I like my Miqotes little fangs.

I'm fairly emotionally reserved irl, so that trait in the Viera kind of resonates with me a fair bit. I understand it can come off as cold, uncaring, or apathetic, but I find how emotive other races are to be way too extra for my tastes.

Personally, I really like the resting bit** face and how smug they look with smirk.