[dev1032] Spell Casting Animations Needs More Love

[Tibian]

Supported.

In my opinion this is a very critical part to making mages exciting.
Not only do the casting animation of the hands/weapons need to be redone, but I feel the spells themselves need to be redone. A blob of red isn't fire. A blob of bubbles isn't water.

Also spell trails from the caster to the target should be implemented on some spells, also it would be nice to see some type of spells have CONSTANT effects. By that i mean, each time dia ticks for damage it could sparkle or emit some type of light.

[Misha]

/agree ^^

At least we'll get to cast while in passive in 1.19 ... good start imo!

[Roll]

Here are two god-awful drawings that I slapped together really quick in Microsoft Paint to illustrate what I mean, lol:
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I loved how you drew the Dodos lmao!

[Gidonoidon_Sur]

Wondering if we could get a rep to press the dev team about this. In particular, with the "diversification of battle animations" coming up in patch 1.19, does that include casting animations? From what I can tell, it implies auto-attack motions. However, I think we all would like to see better casting animations. I in particular would be fine with those in FFXI.

[Trigger]

Agree with everything in this topic so far and also want to add that some of the spells visual effects need to last longer. You cast fire and it appears on the mob for half a sec if that.

[Tsukino]

Some of the spell effects are pathetic too. No Final Fantasy game with a spell called "Flare" had it look as weak as it does in XIV. FF games have always had elaborate spell effects/animations, and that should come along with all their changes to make the game have more "Final Fantasy style" or whatever like making the tiny mobs bigger.

Agree with everything in this topic so far and also want to add that some of the spells visual effects need to last longer. You cast fire and it appears on the mob for half a sec if that.

I think one of the biggest problems with this is the way they end immediately if you do something else, because the resulting effects are tied to the caster's animation status. It's really bad on archer WSs too, where the whole barrage of arrows just disappears because you used another attack. Resulting effects should instead persist separate from whatever animation the creator is currently in.

[Gidonoidon_Sur]

I am not a big time mage. Is there magic classifications in the game (i.e., black magic, white magic, etc)? I recall seeing umbral and astral quite a bit. Can someone clarify what types of magic there are, if any, and perhaps that would be a good start to delineating possible animations by magic-type.

[Radav]

I wish I could hit the like button 1000 times for this. If weaponskill animations are being added for the melee classes the mage classes desperately need some love as well. Ancient magic being the best example of how bad some of the spell effects are.

[Anty]

+1 from the Mog.

Epic animations make it feel like Final Fantasy ^^

And mages NEVER have gotten good animations, just good spell effects.

sad but true, but in ffxiv we have neither atm... the ultimate winners are the ancient magic spells, you usually don't see them goin off, and since the dmg sux as well you can only tell someone is casting it looking at his/her mp bar... thats sad.

[Cairdeas]

I'd like to see them go back to using the Special Animations per Magic School like they did in XI. White Mage, Black Magic, and Blue Magic all casted with different character animations.