If you had the option to use your lower level animations, would you?

I seen this request pop up a few times: Let us use our lower level animations and effects for our upgrading skills while keeping them the same mechanically

I know I certainly want to use inner beast instead of fell cleave and rage of halone over royal authority anyday to say nothing of the heated mch animations. Enough jumps to make a drg jealous...


which ones would you use if you had the option?

Some kind of action glamour system would be cool, especially if it includes cut actions. I know a lot of DRKs would love Power Slash back.

Yes. Everything is tending to get bigger and flashier and brighter and with more "sharp" sound effects and it's just getting too much. I had to switch off battle effects for party members because even in a four-person dungeon (Malikah's Well) I couldn't see anything through a blinding glare of spells going off.

At very least it now needs a mid-point between "all effects" and the "limited" setting that only shows the bare minimum like healing circles.

i'd definitely take Rage of Halone over Royal Authority as PLD.

I want to toggle off the Ninja run and jump animations :x

Yes. I would sacrifice whole expansion for that. There is already no content in ShB, so they might as well create something useful.
For me job visuals are very important. And since devs don't really care and a lot of jobs are very "meh" in that aspect, i would fix it myself if devs are not capable of it.

I would for some classes

I really miss the more clean and straightforward shooting style MCH has in the lower levels over the absurd jumping and flipping from their higher levels.

I'd really like to get Wide Volley and Grenado back if that counts.

Id absolutely love this, but id also like it to be taken a step further and allow animation replacements for certain skills. For example, I would love to play mch as a gunner class, so if I could use the unheated 1-2-3 AND replace the animation of Drill with something like HW Head Graze/Rend Mind, replace autocrossbow with HW Blank ect. You'd fundamentally have the same Job, but with a completely overhauled aesthetic and feel, using only recycled parts.

I'd love to have access to the old animations... if only in gpose for photos.
I'd like to retake some of the old screenshots I've taken of my glams, but can't recreate them without the old animations (or take more screenshots in the newer areas). Still, it IS kinda neat that they act like little time capsules.

I'd like to be able to manually lower my level in order to practice lower level rotations, see older animations and maybe gain exp on low level content that doesn't already sync you.

I would like to replace every white mage iteration of stone with stone one. Honestly stone one looked so much better then two three and four to me. But I never see it, because its gone before dungeon levels start.

using old shots form MCH would be cool even if HOT shot generating battery doesnt make any sense lore wise

I would indeed like machinist and others to stop hopping for no reason. How does the hop help your aiming? who knows, propably Rostnsthal knows. There are other classes with hopping and not all of them are even upgrades. Why, oh Why?

I like the hopping animations of MCH. But I do want the option to use lower level animations and cut animations for gpose

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Originally Posted by Tint

I want to toggle off the Ninja run and jump animations :x

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This. I miss the ROG walking and running animations so much.

I would love to see this, but also have cut animations, there are so many fantastic looking abilities that got cut, if they have no plans to implement them back in, then I would accept a job action glamour system of a sorts, lets players customize how their actions look to their leisure, wouldn't mind being able use unheated shots at 80, or be able to replace Souleater with Power Slash or Rampart with Shadowskin, or Quick Nock with Wide Volley, stuff like that.

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Originally Posted by Tint

I want to toggle off the Ninja run and jump animations :x

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Originally Posted by Destati

This. I miss the ROG walking and running animations so much.

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Yeah... I would be so much more interested in playing NIN if I didn't absolutely hate the Naruto run. I get some people really like it but it's just not my bag.

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Originally Posted by Esmoire

Some kind of action glamour system would be cool, especially if it includes cut actions. I know a lot of DRKs would love Power Slash back.

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Or Scourge’s animation. RIP.


I wish we could toggle animations. I actually preferred the unheated MCH animations. Clean Shot felt more impressive as a combo finisher when it was the only one doing a spinny twirl.

+1 to Iscah. I don’t necessarily hate any of the animations, but the amount of flash and glitter makes it impossible to see what’s going on.

I would like to toggle the MCH 1-2-3 combo to the non-heated shot animations.

I miss that AoE Aero animation so much.

Both other healers got a new DoT animation and WHM still turns the page of a book ain't there. Boo, I say. Boo.

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Originally Posted by Recon1o6

I seen this request pop up a few times: Let us use our lower level animations and effects for our upgrading skills while keeping them the same mechanically

I know I certainly want to use inner beast instead of fell cleave and rage of halone over royal authority anyday to say nothing of the heated mch animations. Enough jumps to make a drg jealous...


which ones would you use if you had the option?

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The game has way too many massive, over the top, flashy combat graphic effects that interfere with seeing the actual combat. I'd happily trade in the fancy ones for more basic effects. The options to switch between Full, Limited and None helps but limited eliminates too many of the effects that are still helpful to see. Yes, I do want to see that Holy has gone off. I just don't want it filling up my entire screen to the near exclusion of everything else.

Scourge and Dancing Edge...please SE...