Using Action Skins to Change Job Flavor

With the Action Skin system coming in Evercold, I am hooping for something that many others are likely hoping for too, and that is action skins that completely reflavor a job. I think this would help for certain job retention (Ninja and Bard specifically) while also getting the flavors of "classic" jobs without having to actually create them.

Some ideas:
WAR - Viking, Berserker
PAL - Spellblade/Runic Knight
DRK - Spellblade/Runic Knight, Berserker

RPR - Puppetmaster, and (for the lols) Chocobo Knight
NIN - Thief and Alchemist mix (ie like Rikku from FFX), Assassin

BRD - Ranger
MCH - Gunner, Fusilier, Corsair, whatever jobs are more gun than tinkering focus

WHM - Green Mage, Time Mage, Geomancer, Sage (but more akin to the original cntext of being a master of white and black magic, like Yhstola's sorceress job)
AST - Time Mage, Oracle, Geomancer
SGE - Psychic (this is from FFX-2)
SCH - Puppetmaster, Ranger (but more of a beastmaster flavor)

BLM - Time Mage, Sage
SMN - Necromancer, Puppetmaster, Beastmaster, Ranger (any job where you summon something big and it leaves)
RDM - Time Mage (applied in a balancing space and time sort of way), Spell Blade/Rune Knight


I am very excited for the action skin system but I am also keeping my actual expectations low as who knows how many actions will be "new" versus old stuff we just don't use anymore with updated graphics.

Honestly, my expectations for this system are exceedingly low. I'm expecting a half-baked system with a limited selection of skills that don't really go together or match the original aesthetic of the job, and some ridiculously flashy cash shop bait. Would love to be wrong though.

I think they saw a majority of VFX mods are just returning deleted skills and are making a system for those skills to live on.

I don't expect much beyond that.

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Originally Posted by BigCheez

Honestly, my expectations for this system are exceedingly low. I'm expecting a half-baked system with a limited selection of skills that don't really go together or match the original aesthetic of the job, and some ridiculously flashy cash shop bait. Would love to be wrong though.

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While the portrait system is... wonky, it has been something they consistently add to and they have been realizing where their audience lies and that we want customization.

However I will not lie, I will not be surprised if there are nier effect reskins and they all end up in the cash shop.

The main problem is that they made all the default effects so over the top that the game is unplayable with other people's effects on so everyone has it off and will never experience whatever you set yours to in Evercold.

I think people might be overestimating the scope of ability skins. I am setting my expectations quite low until we actually see details.

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Originally Posted by Fawkes

The main problem is that they made all the default effects so over the top that the game is unplayable with other people's effects on so everyone has it off and will never experience whatever you set yours to in Evercold.

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Does other people's effects matter as long as you can see yours?

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Originally Posted by EdenElsewhere

Does other people's effects matter as long as you can see yours?

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I assume they're doing this primarily to compete with effects-replacing mods. If you don't care about other people seeing it then I think mods would already be better at this than whatever SE does with their system.

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Originally Posted by Fawkes

I assume they're doing this primarily to compete with effects-replacing mods. If you don't care about other people seeing it then I think mods would already be better at this than whatever SE does with their system.

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I mean customization has always been what about a person wants.

It's likely that, yeah, the 3rd party solutions will be better, but not everyone wants to use those, they will stop being updated, you wait a few days for them to come back (if not more in case of textures/materials moving), anything CBU3 makes in house in automatically better as it's something you don't have to wait on and you never have to worry about it.

Booping for visibility.

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Originally Posted by Oizen

I think they saw a majority of VFX mods are just returning deleted skills and are making a system for those skills to live on.

I don't expect much beyond that.

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This.
But even if they went as far as some of the VFX mods did and made it an entirely new job visually, you're still stuck with the exact same gameplay. And if that gameplay is flat out boring then new flashy spell effects will not fix it, they will at best delay your boredom by a few days.

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Originally Posted by Absurdity

This.
But even if they went as far as some of the VFX mods did and made it an entirely new job visually, you're still stuck with the exact same gameplay. And if that gameplay is flat out boring then new flashy spell effects will not fix it, they will at best delay your boredom by a few days.

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Well I'm not looking to fix the problems brought about by disliking gameplay, I'm hoping to have problems fixed by disliking aesthetic. I think there are a lot of people who are like "Yeah I can play bard/ninja, I just hate the aesthetic."