Glamour Skills

[sesameburgerbuns]

I'm sure this has already been asked or said before but I'm really hoping that we'll someday get the option to glamour skills that upgrade via traits to look like their lower level versions, like making Broil III look like Broil, or Royal Authority look like Rage of Halone. It's not a big deal but I think it could help some healers enjoy their glare/broil/malefic spam more.

I don't know, I just miss Broil to be honest...

[Hugowulf]

I don’t think most healers enjoy spamming their one dps skill care enough of what the animation is.

[VenKitsune]

I agree. For instance, i miss Power Slash (I think it was called) Quite a lot. Like wtf, if you're a DRK at lvl 80 your character is jumping every 6 seconds because the souleater animation is dumb - You're wearing heavy armour with one of the biggest equippable weapons in the game and 1/3rd of your main skill set has more jumping in it than NIN or MNK xD

One way they could do it would similar to egi glamours, for example.
So many old animations are going unused...

[Vahlnir]

I agree. For instance, i miss Power Slash (I think it was called) Quite a lot. Like wtf, if you're a DRK at lvl 80 your character is jumping every 6 seconds because the souleater animation is dumb - You're wearing heavy armour with one of the biggest equippable weapons in the game and 1/3rd of your main skill set has more jumping in it than NIN or MNK xD

To be completely fair, Final Fantasy physics sorta do whatever they want. They can't really be compared to RL laws of physics. If they could our world would clearly work very differently lol

[Cetek14]

I have suggested it at least once, i have ideas for full action glamour system, but "trait toggle" would already give us a lot of customization. And i believe it's not really that hard to implement, we already have exact same system for carbuncles.
Edit
Worth to mention - it should be server side, would also add more variety, not everyone doing the same thing on the same job, but each job would behave slightly different for each player, depending on traits settings.

[Connor]

I actually find the original animation for Broil much more interesting than the Broil III one lol. I even though the weird melting microwave sound effect from the original Broil spell was cool lol. The original one was some weird explosion of corrupted aether, but then II and III are just generic looking firey projectiles (II feels like I’m throwing firecrackers at the enemy lol).

Also wouldn’t this mean that White Mages could choose to go back to the elemental damage spells instead of the light based ones? I prefer Glare/Dia animations personally but it’d be pretty cool to have the choice

[Lethros]

The first Broil is one of the main things I've wanted for scholar since I first used Broil III. They feel so different to use with their sound and appearance. I had a hard time continuing to play the job early on because of it, and it was previously my most played job. Still is now but less so... I find it pretty important to my experience how the actions are. Broil II was similar to the first and I was fine with that one. I would also like Bio II, but lower priority.

With Paladin I actually liked Royal Authority so much that I didn't like Atonement when I learned it because it meant less Royal Authority

[E4EO]

It would be a nice addition yeah. For me personally, I get sick of looking at glare all the time and going back to stone 1 or 2 would be nice, another reason is MCH’s upgraded combo is ridiculous with its ebic 360 no scope looking moves, I’d like to go back to when I could see my character shoot the guns normally.

[SamRF]

Would love this!

To expand on that idea, would be epic if they implemented glam JOBS. Existing jobs with all new animations and theme. For example, turn ninja into a fury dual wieling berserker, WHM into necromancer, Bard into a ranger, ... . Complete overhaul of the job animations. Probably unrealistic suggestion but I'd absolutely love that.

[ReiMakoto]

I'd love this, being able to go back to the old shooting animations on mch would be the dream for me.