I could care less about the animations/stances/poses... The actual visual spell(or weaponskill) effect is really terrible for a game that prides itself on detail. Stone I+(and other spells) on XI had more impact than the spells on XIV currently. I haven't seen one spell that made me go WOW! or EPIC! yet... I would even settle for a thats cool! I don't want to just copy/paste the spells from XI but hell that would be an improvement.
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