[dev1032] Spell Casting Animations Needs More Love

[Anty]

i really hope we get a valid reply on this topic soon, but somehow mages so far (especially con) seem like most rushed of all jobs and i hope they get more special and fun, so perhaps they are overhauling more of them and thats why they didnt focus on the animations yet *wishfullthinking* ...

[Aion]

is there any spell from previous FF titles that animated comes "directly" from the caster? I mean I just remember all the spell casted, and the magic show up from somewhere and hit the enemy.

[Cairdeas]

is there any spell from previous FF titles that animated comes "directly" from the caster? I mean I just remember all the spell casted, and the magic show up from somewhere and hit the enemy.

Most of the Blue Magic and stuff come from the body of the user casting.

[Roll]

is there any spell from previous FF titles that animated comes "directly" from the caster? I mean I just remember all the spell casted, and the magic show up from somewhere and hit the enemy.

I think some of the Gravity spells in FF6 come from the caster too.

[Gidonoidon_Sur]

I just youtubed FFXI magic animations and got to say those are way better than what we got. Ancient magic IIs blow what we have away. Granted we haven't reached FFXIVs cap, presumably, we still need cooler magic animations. If you see a mage casting a spell, say in PvP, you should be like "Oh shi......" Right now it looks like a mage is morphing into a power ranger (aka lame).

[Gidonoidon_Sur]

Trying to get a rep/dev response on this. Anyone have any more ideas they would like to share to spice up casting animations rather than hold purlple/red wand/staff to head action? Love to hear them.

[Evangela]

like I said... SE hates mages

mages always got nerfed every patches came out

conjurers using a lame piece of branch as a weapon and all of them using the same model til the last r50 weapon

wearing a potato sack robe while another classes wearing good looking gears

auto-attack is worthless but it keep hitting the mob, ruining mage strategy and can not turn it off

normal attack (spirit/phantom dart) cooldown is 10 seconds? tell me a reason please

[Sav]

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.

This. This times a million.

[Roll]

like I said... SE hates mages

wearing a potato sack robe while another classes wearing good looking gears

YES!
While the DoW classes get shiny armor, we either get a robe that makes us look like we're in a cult, a clown costume, or something that makes us look like a color blind homeless... and have you seen the new R50 armor from the R45 dungeon? It's is freakin' mustard yellow lol

But anyway, yeah I'd like to hear a response about caster animations/spell effects as well but I doubt we'd get one unless we got a bunch of replies and likes.

[Embers]

Agreed we need better animation for spellcasting! I would love to see my wand glow and to wave it at the party member i was buffing, elemental spells to grow their respective colours - and SE please give us a spell animation for the caster on raise!! The fail spell animation at the moment is so lame!!