Please add new autoattack poses for jobs.

[Rithy255]

would be cool to have more options tbh, gives our characters... well character.

[AllanMiles]

I think this would be a great addition! We can already cycle between idle poses and battle stances, and there also are sprint animations, so implementing some customization to our default stance while in combat shouldn't be that hard, right?
Anyway, I hope this gains some visibility! Even minor updates like this one can make a big difference

[Astronis]

The auto attacks look fine to me (a forward stab, a wide swing, and a overhead swing), and the running pose is fine too, it's both defensive and ready to sweep six men at the calves...but urrgh Hard Slash looks so bad. No one would use a sword that big in such an awkward, backwards manner.

[TBerry]

What's wrong with hitting with a book, globe or scepter?

[TheVoicesAreComingBack]

At the core of it all is the problem that stances which spread the legs very wide are unathletic, and therefore no blow which both seems believable and powerful can come from them. A frequently repeated phrase in sports, including combat sports, is that the feet are often placed "about shoulder width apart" when performing motions that require significant force. If you watch Olympic fencing, you'll see that they start with their feet about shoulder width apart in order to lunge far ahead and touch the opponent first, and once they have done so, they find themselves squatted down low to the ground, with their trailing leg nearly dragging on the ground behind them, in which case they are then open to counterattack if they haven't already won. For reasons unknown, XIV's artists have mistaken that compromised position for one which a person would intentionally start with.

[Astronis]

At the core of it all is the problem that stances which spread the legs very wide are unathletic, and therefore no blow which both seems believable and powerful can come from them.

Karate would have a word or two to say about that. But that got me curious, and it looks like dark knights are standing in something similar to shotokan's fudo dachi - Immovable Stance. I suspect it's a smidge exaggerated in-game, but it's a normal, very athletic stance that is both deep and very wide.

My only issue with it is it's really hard to judge the center of the character in it so I know how hard I can greed.

ETA:

What's wrong with hissting with a book, globe or scepter?

Best auto attack in the game is Astrologians giving enemies papercuts.

[TheVoicesAreComingBack]

Karate would have a word or two to say about that.

There is something to your implication here that the devs are probably taken in by the same bullshido that you are. TMA traditions which insinuate that they will replicate the Chinese horse stance in a combat situation belong in the same category as Aikido masters "turning the attacker's force against them" and, to put it politely, "would cost MP to cast".

[Astronis]

There is something to your implication here that the devs are probably taken in by the same bullshido that you are. TMA traditions which insinuate that they will replicate the Chinese horse stance in a combat situation belong in the same category as Aikido masters "turning the attacker's force against them" and, to put it politely, "would cost MP to cast".

My implication is that this: "At the core of it all is the problem that stances which spread the legs very wide are unathletic, and therefore no blow which both seems believable and powerful can come from them." has an answer in a martial art that I know uses wider stances that do "seem believable". But that's obviously a matter of opinion.

[TheVoicesAreComingBack]

a martial art that I know uses wider stances that do "seem believable"

Your suspension of disbelief is fit to accept even the most flamboyant Xianxia cultivation systems as physical reality, and I would need to swallow a proverbial pill the size of a grapefruit, densely packed with mercury and poached elephant tusk dust, before I cinch my Naruto headband tight enough to believe the same things that you do.

[Astronis]

Your suspension of disbelief is fit to accept even the most flamboyant Xianxia cultivation systems as physical reality, and I would need to swallow a proverbial pill the size of a grapefruit, densely packed with mercury and poached elephant tusk dust, before I cinch my Naruto headband tight enough to believe the same things that you do.

That's quite a lot of words to spew out in response to "it looks like a real stance". I mean, people actually do stand in it and actually do use it...not in *fights*, but it's not bloody Naruto.