Preserving removed animations in 4.0

[AugustI]

Losing a couple of abilities was a mild shock, but nothing I'll miss in the long run. It's mostly numbers in the end anyway. The only thing I WILL miss are the unique animations that, by my knowledge, will become lost as well.

Scourge and Ring of Thorns come to mind. I was excited to use both in combination with the new /gpose system, but now this might not be possible anymore.

Is there a way we can keep the animations? Like.. Dummy the abilities out so it deals no damage of any sort (like the 'attacks' our Magitek Reaper has?).


Edit

According to some replies below, we'll be losing a couple more animations.

• Scourge
• Barrage
• Ring of Thorns
• Dancing Edge
• Mutilate
• Shadow Skin

Do let me know if there are any others!

EDIT 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIrf....be&t=5h53m44s

So it seems we won't be getting the removed animations back right away..
HOWEVER, the devs are open to putting (highly requested!) animations back in the form of 'maybe' an emote.
So! If you already sorely miss a doomed emote, do post which. With some luck, we might get them back!