Casting and spell animations...lackluster?

[Endemerrin]

Chaos Thrust is pretty much the same animation as Penta Thrust but 6 hits.

The Chaos Thrust animation is a single hit. I don't know what animation you've been seeing.

Rage of Halone is essentially Vorpal Blade.

Rage of Halone is a single thrust forward with the sword. Vorpal Blade is a four hit weaponskill. Again, I don't know what animations you've been seeing.

There are a few decent looking weaponskills in this game, but it's no excuse for the fact that a lot of weapons are just clones of eachother. 80% of my weaponskills as a Gladiator involve me performing a circle-slash esque attack. It's just old, and boring. Almost every single weaponskill in FFXI varied. There were a few that were copies of eachother, sure, but most weren't.

Playing the "Well, the level cap is only 50" card is just silly. As people have pointed out, there were plenty of awesome looking weaponskills pre-50 in FFXI.

I don't believe the current animations are acceptable. Even the basic attacks are repetitive.