Quote Originally Posted by Tonkra View Post
I strongly disagree, because i dont see "special" movement animations for paladin and bard. First they dont have any iconic movements.
Their uniqueness comes from their combat skills. For White Mage these are spells like holy etc.

Ninja moves only differently when he draws his weapon. Being in combat. Because that ninja movement is part their combat style..
Again, I'm not talking about movement specifically. Hell I can't even imagine how to give them a new animation for movement. What I'm saying is that they need something to represent the job better, rather than being a gladiator/archer learning paladin/bard skills. This could come from some skills (WHM with holy, although that's only one skill, DRGs with jumps, ninjas with their overall aesthetics, warriors with implied fury and rage).

Even if they have unique combat skills, it does a pretty poor job of depicting the ideology of the job itself (especially bard who gets...rain of death...) Sure you get oaths and songs, but you just use it and they're bygones. And hell, songs isn't even exclusive to bard considering archers can learn swiftsong.

Plus the whole "movement is part of their combat" style is really pushing it...considering that they have little to no positional compared to monks or even dragoons.