Can we change how axes are carried?

It sounds like a minor thing and often I don't mind clipping, but the warrior axe clips through viera ears like no tomorrow to the point of being maddening. You can't even use the swooped back ears on the shortest length when running around.

Right now just about the only thing anyone can do is hide the weapon using the UI option.

I've always wanted to have both of my blades specifically placed on my left hip. One of the main reasons why I like Warframe so much is that you can place your weapons wherever you want-'ish' on your body. I'm willing to bet that this games' devs could make a 'change weapon location' feature similar to the 'change pose' emote.

Think it mostly comes down to how they coded the mounting point. I'm trying to think how we could reposition some of these monsters.

Can we allow warriors to equip swords already? The axe may be the clumsiest melee weapon this side of the flail.

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Originally Posted by TeraRamis

Can we allow warriors to equip swords already? The axe may be the clumsiest melee weapon this side of the flail.

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No.

Because armoury system.

As an Au Ra, nearly anything on the back clipped with the tail. Let's not even get into hair. If your weapon is displayed, it's gonna clip with something.

I agree, for Viera a lot of these weapons shoudl be rotated diagonally a bit more.

Clipping is just an unfortunate fact of life in this game. It's just a case of not having your cake and eating it too (eg. long hair simply can't exist unless clipping is allowed for).

They released Viera and Hrothgar as kind of second-class races, so I can see why they have the "This is as advertised, you chose this, deal with it", but that doesn't mean it was a good call to begin with.

Rather they should definitely have some TLC updates which address some of these minor problems.

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Originally Posted by TeraRamis

Can we allow warriors to equip swords already? The axe may be the clumsiest melee weapon this side of the flail.

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Yes. You can play Dark Knight for that. Thanks!

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Originally Posted by Colt47

Think it mostly comes down to how they coded the mounting point. I'm trying to think how we could reposition some of these monsters.

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I don't think it's been coded so it's alterable, or they would have done it for some of the smaller MCH guns.

The only somewhat-variable approach is the one-handed and two-handed weapons for WHM and BLM, where wands are carried on the hip but staffs on the back - and they are quite simply a pain. Because they're categorised as different weapon types, they don't interfile in the armoury chest and you can't glamour one over the other.

Also I feel like carrying the larger axes on your hip would be just as bad for clipping, if not worse, because your arm would inevitably go through it.

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Originally Posted by Iscah

I don't think it's been coded so it's alterable, or they would have done it for some of the smaller MCH guns.

The only somewhat-variable approach is the one-handed and two-handed weapons for WHM and BLM, where wands are carried on the hip but staffs on the back - and they are quite simply a pain. Because they're categorised as different weapon types, they don't interfile in the armoury chest and you can't glamour one over the other.

Also I feel like carrying the larger axes on your hip would be just as bad for clipping, if not worse, because your arm would inevitably go through it.

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+1 to it not being set in stone, as there are DoH items that turn into giant versions which strap to your back, despite all of them being held as a 1-handed sword. I forget which but the one I'm thinking of is a giant frypan, whereas most frypans go on your hip.

There are some Carpenter saws that do it as well, I believe.