Idea to fix the lack of Char Customization and Horizontal Progression: Action Glamour

[Shurrikhan]

I honestly don't remotely want anything that switches our animations out with others. I have no intention of Full Thrusting on my Monk or Aeroing on my BLM. I see no benefit whatsoever, only really messed up battlefield tells. Augment them, perhaps, but then we might as well actually have differing abilities to go with the modified or new animations.

I wouldn't mind some additional stance choices though. Though I may be one of the few people to find DRK's Fenestra guard fairly practical (aside from the part where it doesn't actually thereby perform any counterattacks), Cloud's stance would be a nice touch, especially if I were to say, swap into it only when in Grit or only when out of Grit, either way.

[Duuude007]

5 unique disciplines branch out to 24 individual roles. How is that not variety, again?

[Morzy]

Don't take away my monk animation! It gets the ladies boobs bouncing and thats all that matters <.<

[Andrea]

I feel if this was to become a thing instead of glamouring using already existing spells ( like your fire - stone example) they should be 100% new animations altogether. I just feel that it would be better that way than say seeing a healer using essentially blm spells

[Mycow8me]

Solution to lack of character customization:
Add more customization.

Solution to memory limitations:
Add more memory...

[Xatsh]

OP Trust me when I tell you this.

This would not satisfy the vast majority of people complaining about lack of horizontal progression or customization. IT will make the people wanting their character to look different happy, but that is not the majority of complaints on this matter.

Overall most people do not care about glamour, or titles, or achievements, or minions, or mounts. Yes there are some who focus on these things, but most just get them when they get them.

We already can run older content for glamour gear, most people do not. A new pose is no different then gear. We want meaningful horizontal progression where things are situational and the game is not a strait shot to the top. AKA we do not want each patch to increases the item level and have gear that is the exact same with +2 stats on it. Yoshida has stated in a recent interview he has no intention of deviating from the pure linear game design. So there is no making the people who want customization and horizontal progression happy with FFXIV. It is why alot of people are leaving the game.

With the current model the devs are struggling to release content fast enough. Aka they are releasing 1/4th the amount of content needed in a vertical progression game. Them taking dev time to develop this and add it to old content is a waste of their time. They need to focus on adding more dungeons, more raids, more primal, and more fluff content. (Since the content usually last 1-2 months tops). Unless they hire new people to specifically work on this I feel it would not be a good use of their man power.