option to change which side your main and off-hand are

[Xebric]

It'd be nice, but I doubt they could just "mirror" the models and animations for this - especially with all the cutscenes that would need altered. It'd be a monumental undertaking that I just don't see happening - cool as it would be.

(Personally I'm one-handed so I'd want the option to have my character be missing an arm or just not use one arm at all. Would be quite a trick on some classes, though. Even worse cutscene problems, too.) XD

[SenorPatty]

It'd be nice, but I doubt they could just "mirror" the models and animations for this - especially with all the cutscenes that would need altered. It'd be a monumental undertaking that I just don't see happening - cool as it would be.

(Personally I'm one-handed so I'd want the option to have my character be missing an arm or just not use one arm at all. Would be quite a trick on some classes, though. Even worse cutscene problems, too.) XD

This one I'm not entirely sure of. There are very little combat cutscenes with the WoL, if anything most of them are just the character taking out his/her weapon and then sheathing it back.

[Rongway]

It'd be nice, but I doubt they could just "mirror" the models and animations for this

They could. After the character is put together but before it is moved to its coordinates and rotated to its facing, it just requires one line of code to apply a negative scale along the model's x axis.

Addendum: We do need to consider, though, that the models would effectively be inside-out, because the triangles' vertices would be ordered anti-clockwise instead of clockwise. If the backs of triangles are set to be ignored, this would make the inside-out thing invisible. If I recall correctly, DX11 has a way of correcting this so that it knows the anti-clockwise triangles are front-facing, but DX9 bases triangle orientation strictly on the vertex order.

I know that I've seen at least some instances of back-faces being rendered (the inside of the behemoth mount, for example), so this may-or-may-not be a problem.

(I'm a UI/UX guy; graphics engineers correct if necessary)

[Hasrat]

They could. After the character is put together but before it is moved to its coordinates and rotated to its facing, it just requires one line of code to apply a negative scale along the model's x axis.

This is what I was thinking, and I have basically zero coding knowledge.

Even with cutscenes, surely the game is still calling up our model in some similar fashion, still using the same skeleton, they can't very well be pre-rendering the player or anything.

I think it'd be interesting for them to consider as well for the possibility of providing just that little bit of extra variety for NPCs.