New Idle Animations?

So since I've been playing as my Bard for Weeping City, it got me thinking, I would love to be able to play my harp while I wait for people, But I cannot, T.T

So I thought maybe it would be nice if SE added in some Idle Animations instead of just idle poses. We already have a few animations, that continue, like the dances, mostly, but nothing that is class/job specific. I think it would be a cool idea. Does anyone agree?

Here is a list of what could possibly be done:

PLD: Shine their Sword/Shield
WAR: Shine their Axe
DRK: Shine their Great Sword
MNK: Shadowboxing
DRG: Baton/Spear practice, like spinning and hand moves
NIN: Hand signs
BRD: Plays the harp
MCH: Targeting practice, complete with a little disk or something to shoot
WHM: Practice healing, like manipulating Aether or somthing?
AST: Playing with their cards, either shuffling, doing tricks, etc
BLM: Performing a little magic display, like mini fireworks or ice sculptures
SMN/SCH:Actively writing in their grimoire/codex
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SMN/SCH would mostly likely be the same since most poses are class based over job specific based

Idle harp playing is something I really really want...no lie..

I feel like Warrior would be less shining the axe and more sharpening it.

I wouldn't mind this. At the very least, something that's also always irked me, is the gender specific idles. Why in the world do male 'goons get the classic stance while I have to look like a preping a stripper pole? Com'mon, at least give us that choice.

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Originally Posted by SwdVengeance

I wouldn't mind this. At the very least, something that's also always irked me, is the gender specific idles. Why in the world do male 'goons get the classic stance while I have to look like a preping a stripper pole? Com'mon, at least give us that choice.

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Probably the same reason why bunny hats are not for males, females can not have the male sundrop dance etc. SE follows this odd gender guideline where sometimes its oke for certain gender to have a masculine/feminine trait and other times its not oke. An example is the Thavnairian dance its very feminine dance that can be used by both genders.

Personaly, I want them to open up everything, every pose, every glamour outfit and let the players decide how to dress, emote their character. But as you probably already know, whenever someone ask for these things, the special snowflakes and biggots come out to defend their reason on why you shouldnt dress/emote your character.

On-topic:

I like your idea, but I do not think the 3 tank classes should same the same idle animation. Maybe the Paladin can practice some defensive movements, the Warrior can do something with their axe or drink a big tankard of ale etc. Having those 3 classes do the same thing is a little unfair.

Still I like the rest and hope they do such a thing.

mnk shadow boxing, all i'm picturing is Zell Dinct and how i want to just pull out a base ball bat and go Slogger happy on his ass, but yeah Brd's should be able to play a tune, i mean its their job isn't it, you can barely make them do it during a pt, so why not try to make them do it in towns

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Originally Posted by Eloah

Good ideas

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Co-signing on this. I know others have made this request in the past (myself included) but it's fallen on deaf ears. I know it would require some work to create the animation but I cant imagine it would tax the system anymore than people who idle while using /dance emotes for hours on end.

I'd like to play songs while on BRD and read/write in my codex as SCH. Really like your AST idea too.

SE PLEASE!

That would be great... The SCH/SMN could interact with pets too, if they're out.

or to actually summon carbuncle to play with

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Originally Posted by Bracken

or to actually summon carbuncle to play with

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Belly rubs for Carbuncle, Yes please!

I can't see why this wouldn't be easy to make. Like.. all the NPCs have them...

I'd rather have new fighting stances, tbh. but if we hare going with idles for Drk, how about that burning effect they took out of darkside?

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-NPCs swinging swords and stuff
-NPCs shadow boxing or shifting feet
-NPCs shooting targets with guns
-NPCs shooting targets with arrows
-NPCs playing the harp
-NPCs twirling knives or throwing them up and down
-NPC Lancers err... shadowlancing?

All these things already in the game as examples

As a BLM I'd really want fire radiating above my hand!

http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/...4095-63524.jpg

Yoshi pls?

I like this idea.

Yes please those seem fun already. Please make it happen.

We need some interactions between Lili and the Scholar, please.

God please let this happen.

SCH/SMN definitely need to be separated unless it's pet interaction. If they had to be the same, I would hope it was something more than writing in their book because we have that already in the victory pose, I would not mind at all manipulating aether like the other casters, with our unique (and otherwise hard to see) spinning geometric casting animation (for ruin).

I'll +1 this for a fun add on. I'd love to idle shuffling cards as an AST or playing with strands of aether as a WHM.

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Originally Posted by Laerune

Valid Point about tanks

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The only reason I suggested a similar action for the tanks was because I was concerned about weapon sizes and how some idle animations might look on our characters with different weapons/armor. While SE can probably make it work ideally we want our current weapon to be used. But someone did suggest axe sharpening for Warrior that sounds cool. Maybe Paladins can practice fighting and Dark Knights can do some magicey thingy? Maybe?

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Originally Posted by Nirokun

Similar point about SCH/SMN

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The main reason I said for Sch/Smn to have the same animation is because similar to all other poses in the game, the pose will probably be linked to the class not the job specifically, but I agree having seperate one would be nice.

If this is really up I would play Bard all day :D
Like to see some cool moves for dragoon like spinning of their spears and stabbing.

Anything that actually required the class to interact with a object like their weapon would be broken on many models making it unfeasable. The class specific animations would require animation specific objects or no object at all due to the nature of how this game handles it's characters and animations.

not saying that it wouldn't be amazing to see, just being realistic.

The same would go for anything that interacts with any sort of character derived object due to clipping and not wanting to make emotes representative of the origin race (Again workload and the developers don't want that) the animations will probably always be pretty basic/bland to prevent clipping or model specific goofs (Miquote /doze anyone?) and any unique animations will be very specific to that motion. Like let's say a bard winds up getting a harp animation while idle it wont be the bow it would more likely be a throwaway model of a harp that any race would have no issue using.

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Originally Posted by Eloah

The only reason I suggested a similar action for the tanks was because I was concerned about weapon sizes and how some idle animations might look on our characters with different weapons/armor. While SE can probably make it work ideally we want our current weapon to be used. But someone did suggest axe sharpening for Warrior that sounds cool. Maybe Paladins can practice fighting and Dark Knights can do some magicey thingy? Maybe?

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For Dark Knights you could have it so that the Dark Knight's "shadow" slides out of their back and the two sides of the character stand back to back like they did during the ending cutscene of the level 50 Dark Knight quest. As if communing with their dark side.

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Originally Posted by AskaRay

Idle harp playing is something I really really want...no lie..

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Yes please.

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Originally Posted by SwdVengeance

I wouldn't mind this. At the very least, something that's also always irked me, is the gender specific idles. Why in the world do male 'goons get the classic stance while I have to look like a preping a stripper pole? Com'mon, at least give us that choice.

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This. When I unlocked Lancer I was so disappointed to see that I didn't get Kain's badass stance.

I would really like this idea! More poses are always nice. ^^

And how about /changepose while in a bed so that you can use the pose you have in an inn bed?

I'd love more of these, especially ones that made me look alive. The NPCs have so many we could use.

Like checking/counting things (looots of NPCs doing that)
Waving hands while talking animatedly (again, lots of NPCs doing that. I'd love to use it while discussing in roleplay)
Eating/drinking (again, lots of NPCs doing that. I've seen Miqo'tes munching on bread while standing, and roes drinking from mugs while sitting, we could use both)
Checking the map, or some unfolded roll in our hands anyway
Keeping on the lookout (this is a pose we can give to our Outdoor retainer already)
Waving one hand to fan ourselves ("it's so hot!"), seen in Thanalan, and rubbing hands ("so cold!"), seen a lot in Coerthas.

There's just so many!

EDIT: Also, I'd love some idle animations for mounts. It's kind of silly that when they're in Companion mode, chocobos can look around, but when we mount them, they stare straight ahead like robots. An idle animation for all mounts would be good (even the robot ones)!