Ananta Tail Re-Design?

I personally hope for a re-design of the Ananta tails to actually slide along the ground. They even speak like snakes, why do they float above the ground?

The elephants there suggest that will be our Ananta tribe mount, but at present they all already float like Moogles. They don't need a mount if they can already fly.

Anyone else want big, thick(thicc if that's what you go for :P) tails on Ananta? Please like up. They are like a "half-naga" tribe atm with their tiny, floaty tails.

All I want is a spell that allow me to turn into one of them, like the glamour prisms *.*

In Eq 2 we had the ability to glamour ourselves as Nayad....geez, I never wore anything else ^^'
http://eq2.zam.com/Im/width=250/192325

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Originally Posted by Celef

All I want is a spell that allow me to turn into one of them, like the glamour prisms *.*

In Eq 2 we had the ability to glamour ourselves as Nayad....geez, I never wore anything else ^^'
http://eq2.zam.com/Im/width=250/192325

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Yes please this all my yes I want to be a lamia so bad

Fun fact: one of the Ananta you meet says something along the lines "Do you know how hard it is to balance on these tails?" Upon reading this, I looked closely at their tails again, thinking: "What do you mean? Your tails don't even touch the ground, you simply float in the air!"

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Originally Posted by Dualgunner

Yes please this all my yes I want to be a lamia so bad

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Maybe once they add the beast tribe quests we could get a special prism/token/call it how you want, allowing us to turn into one of them *.*
(we had the Vanu Vanu and Gnath costumes soooooo)

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Originally Posted by Celef

Maybe once they add the beast tribe quests we could get a special prism/token/call it how you want, allowing us to turn into one of them *.*
(we had the Vanu Vanu and Gnath costumes soooooo)

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All of my glamours would shift. Faster than immediately. I would go back in time, do you hear me? BACK IN TIME to be readier for this.

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Originally Posted by Chiramu

I personally hope for a re-design of the Ananta tails to actually slide along the ground. They even speak like snakes, why do they float above the ground?

The elephants there suggest that will be our Ananta tribe mount, but at present they all already float like Moogles. They don't need a mount if they can already fly.

Anyone else want big, thick(thicc if that's what you go for :P) tails on Ananta? Please like up. They are like a "half-naga" tribe atm with their tiny, floaty tails.

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Because their models, like 95% of all new mobs added in SB, are ripped directly from FFXI.

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Originally Posted by Jonnycbad

Because their models, like 95% of all new mobs added in SB, are ripped directly from FFXI.

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yiu mean final fantasy. :P

lamia existed across a few ff games. the ananta are the base race that the allagans used to make the lamia.

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Originally Posted by BigRed5392

yiu mean final fantasy. :P

lamia existed across a few ff games. the ananta are the base race that the allagans used to make the lamia.

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No. I meant literally copy and pasted models from FFXI.

Other models that have been literally lifted from FFXI in SB:

Chapuli
Fluturini
Cardians
Matamata
Rocs

Other FF games use same monsters too, but they're always redrawn/redesigned. FFXIV doesn't redesign them, they just literally copy'pasta them from FFXI, same with Ananta, which are pulled from a 15 year old game's resources lol.

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Originally Posted by Jonnycbad

No. I meant literally copy and pasted models from FFXI.

Other models that have been literally lifted from FFXI in SB:

Chapuli
Fluturini
Cardians
Matamata
Rocs

Other FF games use same monsters too, but they're always redrawn/redesigned. FFXIV doesn't redesign them, they just literally copy'pasta them from FFXI, same with Ananta, which are pulled from a 15 year old game's resources lol.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrxZKHwZzGU

Interesting video that touches on just a fraction of the borrowed mobs as well as their thoughts on how it works with lore (or doesnt) as well as other things.

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Originally Posted by Jonnycbad

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Other FF games use same monsters too, but they're always redrawn/redesigned. FFXIV doesn't redesign them, they just literally copy'pasta them from FFXI, same with Ananta, which are pulled from a 15 year old game's resources lol.

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And in a weird twist of fate, FFXI actually took some from XIV as well. Namely, the Salamander mobs made up one of the bosses in SoA.

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Originally Posted by Chiramu

I personally hope for a re-design of the Ananta tails to actually slide along the ground.

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Agreed! They look weird floating just above the ground... Their tail needs a bit more "weight" to it. As it is, they just look like mermaids but floating in the air (kinda similar to SE's obsession with floating fish, now that I think about it...)

Edit nvm found it

I agree that it'd be nice if Ananta (and Lamia!) had longer tails which actually touched the ground. I'm not going to hold my breath, but it would be nice.

On an interesting note part of the reason which FFXI Lamia float (and therefore FFXIV Lamia, and therefore FFXIV Ananta) is that they shared a model skeleton with FFXI Merrows, which were humanoids with FISH tails for legs - and all fish mobs, both in this game and in that, float above the ground. Giving the Lamia long tails in that game would have meant new animations, rather than sharing animations with Merrows, and they decided to take the easy way out - just as they did when they ported the Lamia over to this game.

I do wish they'd given the race a redesign when they brought it to XIV, much as they did with Ahriman type mobs (SO much better than the silly dumpling-shaped Ahriman in XI), but I guess they decided that they just weren't going to be important enough to warrant one... or that they looked good enough as-is.

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Originally Posted by Jonnycbad

Because their models, like 95% of all new mobs added in SB, are ripped directly from FFXI.

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I'm... I'm sorry to tell you but... That's just another Lamia-like person that looks nothing like the ananta model...