For once I agree with you.

As I have posted before in topic asking about improvements to character creation and other similar matters, we should have the ability to choose a default mood/expression for our avatar.

Now, I'm not necessarily thinking about making the moods or expressions the same as the emotes. Instead, I think that we should be able to choose from happy, sad, neutral, angry and fearful as the default mood for our avatar's face.

These moods/expressions should also be added to the emotes list with an option to make them 'permanent'. All other facial emotes should either have a longer duration - as in, it stays that way until you re-zone - or a persistent setting so that they stay on your face until you logout.

That way we can have a character that defaults to angry, but we can switch to a happier face as the situation demands, or we can start with a happy face, and get angry as rquired. I'd think this would add to the depth of role play as well since you'd be able to set your default expression according to your role play for that day, and so on.