gem needs more race uniqueness

[Albela_Killingifritcom]

greetings my fiends, after having played for a while i noticed something.

all races are very similiar except for running animation and emotions. they use the same animations for weapon skills, abilities, normal hits and how they carry weapons in action mode. not even FFXi was like this. For example in FFXI elf male rangers were badass with a gun, using it with one hand, while humans used both hands.
gnomes did a backflip when using Asuran fists(hand-tohand weapon skill) while other races did not. etc etc and many other differences.

so how come FFXIV is not like this?

[Rane]

greetings my fiends, after having played for a while i noticed something.

all races are very similiar except for running animation and emotions. they use the same animations for weapon skills, abilities, normal hits and how they carry weapons in action mode. not even FFXi was like this. For example in FFXI elf male rangers were badass with a gun, using it with one hand, while humans used both hands.
gnomes did a backflip when using Asuran fists(hand-tohand weapon skill) while other races did not. etc etc and many other differences.

so how come FFXIV is not like this?

Gnomes?

Seriously, though, I agree with what you're saying.

[yukikaze_yanagi]

They are working on it. 1.19 should have complete animation overhault, while 1.18 partial

[Albela_Killingifritcom]

They are working on it. 1.19 should have complete animation overhault, while 1.18 partial

i see. I remember reading something about tat, but didnt think they would differentiate animations btween races, only weapon skills.

[YUGON]

Maybe WS comes first, but eventually they may overhaul animations from races too.

It's not a must, but it would be much better. =)

[Nexxus]

I find thoses animation great, personnaly, i'd rather they work on something else before that. Once the game is good to be really enjoyed, then why not. And why not have choice to choose wich stance you wan't to be (like Aion did recently).

[Kiroh]

Some food for thought :

The Elezen male and female idle stance is exactly the same except the leg that sticks out is reversed.

[Cairdeas]

Actually all the races appear to hold weapons differently at least to me they seem too.

[Chinook]

Actually all the races appear to hold weapons differently at least to me they seem too.

What's sad is that they can only use one weapon type per class.

[Cairdeas]

Had they not called them classes at all and only called them weapons by their weapon name would you really be complaining about that specifically?