Preview combat voicing in character creation

[Beckett]

I'd be all for this. The voice samples they have aren't very good to begin with (Why is /chuckle the emote used instead of /laugh? My character has a perfectly sensible chuckle, but he laughs like Hojo on nitrous oxide) and the lack of any battle examples makes it worse.

So very much this! I'm the type that spends hours perfecting my character before creation, so when I found out my /laugh sounded like a hyena, instead of the sensible voice that I chose, I was pretty pissed off. As it stands, the only way to reliably check your character's voice is to actually fully create and log-in with the character in order to test the emotes/battle noises, of you might get an unexpected surprise down the line.

[Fynlar]

I was wishing this was a thing back in FFXI, and yeah, still would be nice here too.

[Riardon]

Limitations™ and Limited Resources™

[Gemina]

Limitations™ and Limited Resources™

Considering the guaranteed rise in fantasia sales, if I was SE I would be all over this request. This is something they could easily do. A combat preview that has your character auto attacking and using limited weaponskills on a dummy that allows you listen to how they sound in battle. They could also have an option for your character to play dead so you can listen to this as well.

Because I played healer for such a long time before trying anything else, I had no idea how my character even sounded when in engaged in melee combat since healers don't have any melee skills. I got lucky here. But as BRD flinging arrows, if I could have previewed this, I very likely would have chosen another voice.

[Niwashi]

A combat preview that has your character auto attacking and using limited weaponskills on a dummy that allows you listen to how they sound in battle.

and do so for multiple classes/weapons, since, as you brought up, it can vary between them. My lala alt started out as a thaumaturge, and sounded fine on that. It wasn't until later, when I unlocked archer, that I had to put up with those awful squeals each time she shot an arrow.

This also makes it hard to create an alt just to try out various voices, as a workaround for not having it in the character creator. You can't really hear a lot of it until you unlock all the various classes at the very least (let alone if you want to know what you're going to sound like on one of the expansion jobs).

[LalaRu]

Why are you all stopping at requesting only a preview?

Lets ask for a separate setting for the combat voice! Given your voice of choose, have two or more different sounds to pick for the combat will be good.

[Elamys]

Why are you all stopping at requesting only a preview?

Lets ask for a separate setting for the combat voice! Given your voice of choose, have two or more different sounds to pick for the combat will be good.

You're living in 2030 and the rest of us are in 2018, I appreciate this

[SturmChurro]

I turned myself into a Hyur midlander one time, I lasted a day before the weird grunting, and walk animations made me fantasia again. Would definitely love to preview combat voices, kind of luck of the draw, especially if you fantasia a lot.

[Melichoir]

Can we please preview the combat noises our character makes in creation? That's going to be a lot more useful than the voice they use during some emotes I'm not going to use often. I picked a voice I liked the emote sound of only to find out it's the most annoying voice ever in combat.

Holy hell I would also appreciate this. I made that mistake briefly when I first made my character and found out pretty quick that the voice was really really grating on the ears in combat. Had to remake cause I didnt have a phantasia at the time, and now every time I want to phantasia, I make the character I want first as an alt, attack some mobs, then phantasia. It works but its a pain in the butt.

[Bellsong]

There used to be a series of videos on youtube by a JP player that previewed every base voice emote and battle grunt with each race and gender. It was some of the most useful stuff when making a new character but they deleted their account or the videos got flagged for copyright or something a few years back I wish I had backed them up or something.

I would totally love more in depth previews!