I disagree.
Perhaps you shouldn’t assume. Haven’t you ever heard of what happens when one assumes?
I don’t give a flip about BLU or any of the content it offers. I haven’t even touched it since I leveled it to 50 the first week it was released back in Stormblood. I just don’t think that changing DNC’s sounds is something that the developers should focus on. I can get behind them adding in more weapons for glamour—or more outfits that are generally more in line with a DNC aesthetic. I’ve been a huge advocate of crafted primal weapons for both it and GNB, and have posted about it several times on this platform. But changing the sounds? Why don’t they focus instead on balancing it and the rest of the physical ranged against the other DPS jobs first? Or some of these glamour options that you would like to see? The sounds aren’t an issue.
DNC sounds are not a complaint I can say I’ve ever seen until you brought them up. It’s very likely that it’s a thing many don’t even care about. And, as I said, changing sounds can have more negative impact than good. See: GNB sound changes and combat voice changes.
You literally said that the animations were lacking, to which I directly contested by saying “I don’t think they’re lacking at all”.
If you want DNC’s “equivalent” of Flare, Holy, CoS, then it’s either of the Finishes or Saber Dance. Those are it’s animations that give it this “umph” you want. It doesn’t need giant balls of exploding lights to make it look nice, and I don’t see any need to change or edit animations to fulfill this desire to make things “more flashy”.
(The screen also doesn’t visibly shake when you do things like the attacks you’ve listed. Our screens are static unless we opt to move the camera around ourselves while we’re using the skills. I’ve Holy spammed in dungeons enough to say with confidence that my screen doesn’t shake when I’m doing it.)
Maybe read what you actually wrote before you accuse me of being the one who isn’t reading. Thank you.
It’s not a thread derailment or off-topic when your opening post directly addresses DNC (and GNB) animations and claim that they are lacking. I replied to the part of your post that was applicable and relevant to me: I main DNC—I have since ShB dropped. I don’t really play Viera or Hrothgar characters enough to say more than “hairstyle limitations are dumb” and “locking Hrothgar behind Fantasia-ing to change their hair because hair and face are locked together harder than Au Ra horns and face is super dumb”, but those have both been repeated ad nauseam on these forums that I think the developers know people are unhappy with them. I don’t really care about BLU, nor do I dabble in it enough to speak on it with any sort of authority, so I didn’t address your concerns with it.
I’m terribly sorry that some people agree with my opinions and not yours. If you didn’t want to hear opposing opinions and just wanted an echo chamber, you really came to the wrong place.
I can agree with some of the things you said, but I disagree when it comes to DNC sounds and animations.