Complain about fixing glasses emote

[Alberel]

It was not really Hildybrand who copycat it, he is a Highlander after all.

Whilst you are correct the issue in that case was actually very similar to what the OP is describing here.

Hildibrand's trademark pose (which was actually just the Highlander /pose with a small added detail) ended up being given as a quest reward to all races, but meant that the Highlander race no longer had a unique racial /pose emote.

Now the main flourish of the SMN/SCH /bstance emote is being given to all players as well. It doesn't personally bother me but the scenario is very similar, and the the Highlander situation did actually get addressed by SE eventually so I imagine they may here as well.

Personally the combat stance emotes always bugged me as a SMN since they were so obviously intended for SCH specifically. SMNs don't write text in their grimoires the way SCHs do; they draw various arcane geometries. They also don't have glasses built into their AF sets so the /glasses component is really out of place for the job. I would be more than happy to see the SMN combat stance emotes changed regardless to be honest.

[ErikMynhier]

Complaining is the true FFXIV endgame.

[Eloah]

People seem to be regulating the battle stance to SCH/SMN, which, while that is true, the stance is for Arcanist, thats why they are the same. And Arcanists are depicted with glasses as well. That's why people say SCH makes more sense over SMN. But as a Scholar main, i dont really mind this, who uses the battle stance emote anyway.