Quote Originally Posted by Kerwin View Post
lol Kiki, trust me on what I say. If you read what Yoshi stated, you would know the restrictions he has for adding new features to XIV and the toll it takes on the server.

We will not see this animation. Devs do not even have time to fix hair clipping because of content patch demands.
Animations have zero server toll. Zero. The server does not provide any relevant information for them. Movement, damage taken, and knock-backs -- all already relayed -- are the only controllers of animations. Animation is done entirely client-side, in the same way that the server does not tell the player how to draw a given chest piece to be viewed from their particular camera angle and distance to the viewed player: the server simply provides an appearance and dye tag, and the client draws it.