Glamour Skills

I'm sure this has already been asked or said before but I'm really hoping that we'll someday get the option to glamour skills that upgrade via traits to look like their lower level versions, like making Broil III look like Broil, or Royal Authority look like Rage of Halone. It's not a big deal but I think it could help some healers enjoy their glare/broil/malefic spam more.

I don't know, I just miss Broil to be honest...

I don’t think most healers enjoy spamming their one dps skill care enough of what the animation is.

I agree. For instance, i miss Power Slash (I think it was called) Quite a lot. Like wtf, if you're a DRK at lvl 80 your character is jumping every 6 seconds because the souleater animation is dumb - You're wearing heavy armour with one of the biggest equippable weapons in the game and 1/3rd of your main skill set has more jumping in it than NIN or MNK xD

One way they could do it would similar to egi glamours, for example.
So many old animations are going unused... :(

I have suggested it at least once, i have ideas for full action glamour system, but "trait toggle" would already give us a lot of customization. And i believe it's not really that hard to implement, we already have exact same system for carbuncles.
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Worth to mention - it should be server side, would also add more variety, not everyone doing the same thing on the same job, but each job would behave slightly different for each player, depending on traits settings.

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Originally Posted by VenKitsune

I agree. For instance, i miss Power Slash (I think it was called) Quite a lot. Like wtf, if you're a DRK at lvl 80 your character is jumping every 6 seconds because the souleater animation is dumb - You're wearing heavy armour with one of the biggest equippable weapons in the game and 1/3rd of your main skill set has more jumping in it than NIN or MNK xD

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To be completely fair, Final Fantasy physics sorta do whatever they want. They can't really be compared to RL laws of physics. If they could our world would clearly work very differently lol

I actually find the original animation for Broil much more interesting than the Broil III one lol. I even though the weird melting microwave sound effect from the original Broil spell was cool lol. The original one was some weird explosion of corrupted aether, but then II and III are just generic looking firey projectiles (II feels like I’m throwing firecrackers at the enemy lol).

Also wouldn’t this mean that White Mages could choose to go back to the elemental damage spells instead of the light based ones? I prefer Glare/Dia animations personally but it’d be pretty cool to have the choice

The first Broil is one of the main things I've wanted for scholar since I first used Broil III. They feel so different to use with their sound and appearance. I had a hard time continuing to play the job early on because of it, and it was previously my most played job. Still is now but less so... I find it pretty important to my experience how the actions are. Broil II was similar to the first and I was fine with that one. I would also like Bio II, but lower priority.

With Paladin I actually liked Royal Authority so much that I didn't like Atonement when I learned it because it meant less Royal Authority

It would be a nice addition yeah. For me personally, I get sick of looking at glare all the time and going back to stone 1 or 2 would be nice, another reason is MCH’s upgraded combo is ridiculous with its ebic 360 no scope looking moves, I’d like to go back to when I could see my character shoot the guns normally.

Would love this!

To expand on that idea, would be epic if they implemented glam JOBS. Existing jobs with all new animations and theme. For example, turn ninja into a fury dual wieling berserker, WHM into necromancer, Bard into a ranger, ... . Complete overhaul of the job animations. Probably unrealistic suggestion but I'd absolutely love that.

I'd love this, being able to go back to the old shooting animations on mch would be the dream for me.

Honestly, I'd love to be able to go back to using the cool ROG animations, rather than the super weeby Naruto ones that NIN is stuck with... Including the combat pose and run animations...

I would gladly pay to get the non-Heated animations for Machinist.

Come back with that after we got Egi glamours lmao

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Originally Posted by TheMightyMollusk

I would gladly pay to get the non-Heated animations for Machinist.

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Yeah, I think they're a little over the top in my opinion. I don't mind how MCH plays but the animations bug me now, so I went BRD instead. That job is a bit more...elegant might be the word, even with their flashy shots. Sure, there's a jump or 2 here and there but I'm not doing some crazy ducks, dives and flips.

The only attention I pay to combat animations is to confirm that the ability fired when I hit the key. (The sound helps as well) Beyond that, I don't care what they look like, so long as I can tell them apart.

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Originally Posted by TheMightyMollusk

I would gladly pay to get the non-Heated animations for Machinist.

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I wouldn't pay, but heated animations are indeed sickness, one of the reasons why MCH has identity crisis since 4.0. It wouldn't fix everything, but it would help.

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Originally Posted by Kalise

Honestly, I'd love to be able to go back to using the cool ROG animations, rather than the super weeby Naruto ones that NIN is stuck with... Including the combat pose and run animations...

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Really wished they went with Thief instead of Ninja :(

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Originally Posted by SamRF

Really wished they went with Thief instead of Ninja :(

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Honestly, given that they completely scrapped the idea of Classes becoming Jobs during ARR, I wish that they'd have gone with it fully and made all the classes into jobs.

Heck, I made a thread about it yonks ago. With really, the only change I'd make given that the Shuriken I suggested for NIN might be a bit close to DNC's chakrams is well... I'd probably make DNC's weapons Ribbons ;)

if only OP... I'd like to replace true thrust with that viscous stab drg's used to have as feint, looks way more natural comboing action

hell I'd also like to replace blood weapon animation with the old darkside animation, what with the abyssal energy travelling up the blade rather than the current one of raising your hand to flick a piece of blood into the air

+1 for MCH non heated, although I would be happy with either A) it randomly does the heated version every 3-4 uses..maybe as crit hit... or B) it does the heated versions when the heat bar is 50+ (so a visual cue for "hey your heat bar is ready for blast'n!")

I support all the suggestions in this thread. It's sad when you can't even get excited for new expansions because every time they get rid of good animations. I absolutely despise Soul Eater on drk and I loved Power Slash, Delirium, and Scourge. Of course they get rid of all of them. I liked Butcher's Block on war so of course it's gone.

I also like the idea of glam jobs. It should be easy to implement, class balance stays the same with just animations changing. It would be great to see some for monk that focus on different styles of martial arts.

Not sure I would even use this if it were added, but I'll definitely support it being added.

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Originally Posted by GrumbleBeard

I support all the suggestions in this thread. It's sad when you can't even get excited for new expansions because every time they get rid of good animations. I absolutely despise Soul Eater on drk and I loved Power Slash, Delirium, and Scourge. Of course they get rid of all of them. I liked Butcher's Block on war so of course it's gone.

I also like the idea of glam jobs. It should be easy to implement, class balance stays the same with just animations changing. It would be great to see some for monk that focus on different styles of martial arts.

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What if they replaced limited jobs with glam jobs. Basically after already having a job at max level, gaining the ability to start leveling corresponding glam job from level 15-60 (xp bonus perhaps). More time sinks as well as increased activity in older instances. I definitely see lots of people interested in leveling alt glam job for their main(s).

Give Scholars access to the Carbuncle glamours and I’ll probably stop playing White Mage.

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Originally Posted by sesameburgerbuns

I'm sure this has already been asked or said before but I'm really hoping that we'll someday get the option to glamour skills that upgrade via traits to look like their lower level versions, like making Broil III look like Broil, or Royal Authority look like Rage of Halone. It's not a big deal but I think it could help some healers enjoy their glare/broil/malefic spam more.

I don't know, I just miss Broil to be honest...

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Malefic IV looks way cooler than the other 3... same for Combust III with its cooler cast animation.

Stone 3 looks more impactful than Stone IV which looks like a lower res rip off of the Earthquake tech from Chrono Cross.

Still this is a nice idea and I can think of a few skills I would glam.

I miss that one bard aoe animation. Rain of arrows? Or something? The one where you do a sick flip jump and it just rains arrows around your target. That one. I want that one back.

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Originally Posted by sesameburgerbuns

I'm sure this has already been asked or said before but I'm really hoping that we'll someday get the option to glamour skills that upgrade via traits to look like their lower level versions, like making Broil III look like Broil, or Royal Authority look like Rage of Halone. It's not a big deal but I think it could help some healers enjoy their glare/broil/malefic spam more.

I don't know, I just miss Broil to be honest...

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Yeah, it has been asked for quite a few times already.
Even made a [Suggestion] thread back at Shadowbringers start:
https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...lls-Animations
https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...removed-skills

While idea is certainly sounds awesome, should not be extremely hard to implement and would add a lot of diversity it seems not too much people care about old animations. Especially new players (who probably don't even know they exist).
So it's kinda hard to make enough ruckus to catch someones attention =/
But there is always a chance devs already have something like this in mind.

We should just have all of our skills unlocked in lower level dungeons - it'd make doing low level duties more worthwhile & more than just falling asleep

A system like this could be really good for changing the vibe of a job, without messing with anything gameplay related. I know myself and many others liked it when mch was more gunslinger oriented, or just prefer gunslinger in general, and you could get that vibe out of current mchs kit with just animation changes:

Heated Combo-> unheated animations
Reassemble-> Quick Reload
Hypercharge -> Reload
Air Anchor -> Head Graze (with its impact and screen shake effects back from HW)
Drill-> Rend Mind (honestly the coolest looking mch animation from HW, so confusing why it was used for debuff not an attack)