What do you think of jobs having different stances than classes?

[Radnar]

Yeah, FFXIV sure is ugly...?

Well... I mean... Yeah, it kind of is. Having an engine that is capable of rendering high poly-counts doesn't mean anything if you don't do anything interesting with said polycounts.

Asking for unique animations for the races is not as unreasonable as you're making it out to be. Every single MMO I've played (starting with FFXI) has been able to pull it off with flying colors, so why should we give SE a free pass now for FFXIV? On paper unique animations might not sound "necessary," but the fact that my character looks almost indistinguishably the same animation-wise from a hyur or elzen when wielding a sword and shield adds dramatically to FFXIV's feel of blandness and homogeneity that people so often complain about. If SE wants to address this feel then they need to address the animations with something other than more emotes. I may not have liked the Mithran sword&board animations in FFXI very much, but I would much rather have them back in FFXIV just so my character would feel and look more different from the other races.