An Idle Suggestion

[SaitoHikari]

I played another MMO that had this, though it was mostly tied to equipped weapon rather than the class itself, I believe. Not a high priority thing (especially since people are likely dreaming up flashy idle animations, which MIGHT end up causing performance issues in densely populated areas), but would be nice.

Here's how I imagine some of them working out.

- CNJ/WHM: Raises staff with streams of water traveling upwards, giving way to rocks pushed by wind circling the tip of the staff.
- THM/BLM: Holds out arms, summoning a spiky orb of ice over the left hand and a fireball on the right hand. The staff remains on their back, but lightning courses through it.
- ACN/SCH: Flips through their book, a greenish/golden aura surrounding them all the while.
- SMN: Writes in their book so furiously that it actually gets set on fire. The Summoner puts out the fire with a gust of wind.
- ARC/BRD: Practices playing on the harp, OR practices their aiming by drawing their bow.
- PGL/MNK: Engages in some shadowboxing, then bows when finished.
- GLD/PLD: Draws their sword and does a flourish with it.
- MRD/WAR: Finds a random rock from out of nowhere and cleaves it in half.
- DRK: Sharpens/cleans their sword, with a dark aura surrounding it. (Can't really think of much else with a weapon that massive.)

[Shurrikhan]

What about flipping through pages of their book/studying, maybe occasionally pulling some odd shape/elemental partially through. A rare one could be them pulling something highly unwanted out and hurriedly/embarrassingly closing it shut.

Anything to make it look like Arcanists have a reason for their chosen weapon? Yes, please.

[whiteblade89]

This is a lovely idea and very thought provoking. I main NIN and it would be cool if they could sit and meditate while idle. All the while, their Mudra symbols would float around them with white energy like the Spears from their LB3. DRK could stand with it's sword point down (like the female pose which I really wish was available to males as well) and could have a pool of dark energy swirling around their feet.

[Vanitas]

That sounds pretty fun actually.

[Antonio_Xul]

I really wish we had different default stances to choose from in general. I really hate the way Elezen male stands with his chest all puffed out. Our running animation sucks, too. They should add different default stances based on attitude or something like that. Elezen males just have the worst of it which is probably one of the reasons why they are so unpopular. It's definitely one of the reasons why I didn't start as one.

[Eloah]

i'm all for new odle animations but i feel they should be linked to the race over the class/job. Not because I wouldn't want one for them, but certain jobs might have a hard time creating one. As someone mentioned having and Arcanist interact with the pet wouldn't work as we might expect. Plus with certain weapons, their might be clipping issues we might not foresee in the future. But if the animations are linked to the race they would still feel unique.

[Emirly]

This is cool, definitely something I can get behind. Buy I think they need an auto AFK kick more... on more populated servers after a certain time of being AFK. So that people who actually want to play the game can.. and have the choice of making a character on a server with their friends.

[ThePatron13]

What about flipping through pages of their book/studying, maybe occasionally pulling some odd shape/elemental partially through. A rare one could be them pulling something highly unwanted out and hurriedly/embarrassingly closing it shut.

I can see how that could actually be quite good. I'm just cautiously optimistic at best when it comes to the book users, I also like the idea of tiny variation in a extended repeat, which would be little additional effort I would think.

[Sida]

I really wish we had different default stances to choose from in general. I really hate the way Elezen male stands with his chest all puffed out. Our running animation sucks, too. They should add different default stances based on attitude or something like that. Elezen males just have the worst of it which is probably one of the reasons why they are so unpopular. It's definitely one of the reasons why I didn't start as one.

But don't we already? To a point anyway, if I have changed my default standing pose with /cpose once it is remembered and he always used that, even through logouts. (That of course requires togling of the automatic pose switch)

[TristanBlane]

me gusta this idea