Casting and spell animations...lackluster?

[Kallera]

I prefer the spells and weapon skills in XI, the ones in this game are just plain sad and boring. 95% of the skills animations are yawn Also the sfx for the skills or magic are boring too.

No clue how they went from XI skills to this garbage

I agree, I haven't gotten to some of the higher level skills yet on my PUG, but the most interesting one seems to be seismic shock, and even then I can't enjoy the animation, as I'm inputing other actions as well. I guess the problem becomes, do we want the animations to interfere with the next strike, or will they just be sacrificed for quicker reaction time?

Or maybe we should let PUGs suffer. ;;