Then... what emote you'd like to see?

[Raikai]

So, in the wake of the thread (with controversial opinions) about a /smoke emote, I'd figured to make this one to ask what emotes you'd rather have implemented.

I've seen a couple that are used by NPCs but we don't have access:
1) Persistent emote eating dango (or chicken leg?)
2) Persistent emote writing on a notepad
3) Persistent emote yelling in the street with pamphlet (the roe NPC near Kugane's MB)
4) Persistent juggling emote (Lala NPC in Ul'dah)

Others that aren't in the game or are in, but doesn't look like an emote per se:
5) Persistent action of holding an umbrella/parasol (this NPC near Kugane's aetherythe)
6) A /ledgesit emote, but maybe that would be technically hard or impossible?
7) Emote to relax laying on the floor (not playing dead).
8) Emote sipping a cup of tea.

I'm greatly interested in persistent emotes, because they look much more interesting as you can idle in new ways.

[Beckett]

Those all sound great. I'm a particular fan of the laying down (on ground) emote, since right now you can only do that on beds and beach chairs.

My feeling on persistent emotes is that if the devs are thinking about adding a new emote, persistent should be the default, and they should only make it non-persistent if the particular emote doesn't work for it. I can't stand that things like /converse and /elucidate aren't persistent.

[Vahlnir]

To be fair, a smoking emote wasn't really controversial in your other thread. People just weren't sure how SE would handle it or if they'd be willing to. But anyway, I stand by an eating emote of some kind. I'd love to see something like that.

[Fredco191]

A persistent umbrella emote that actually shields your character from the rain.



Also I didn’t mind the smoking emote. I just didn’t care for it much.

[Enkidoh]

A persistent umbrella emote that actually shields your character from the rain.

^ This.

Also, a /curtsey emote - /bow isn't good enough, my character was raised in high society, a curtsey is mandatory!

[Transient_Shadow]

A persistent umbrella emote that actually shields your character from the rain.



Also I didn’t mind the smoking emote. I just didn’t care for it much.

This would be lovely

[Roda]

/sleep anywhere, like every other mmo I've played has.
No cash shop
Just let my character relax on the beach, or in the forest, or wherever there isn't a bed.

[Raikai]

This would be lovely

Adding that there is actually the NPC with the animation for this, so I suppose isn't a work from zero.



Edit: Speaking of which, when we'll finally get these kimonos?

[WellFooled]

I don't have anything specific to contribute, but I'm all for the idea of getting more and more npc emotes. I think any almost any and all emotes that npc have should be given to players. Imagine how many unrewarding pieces of content could instead have a slew of fun rewards if all npc emotes, furniture (just look at the hundreds of furniture items sitting around in the game that players can't use in their own house), mounts (half of all the monsters in the game look perfectly designed to be mounts), etc were added for players. And that's with so much less additional work since they're all already created.

[Roda]

Honestly, I might get hate for this because the W word is a swear word on a lot of mmo forums, but I REALLY like how WoW has integrated emotes into a lot of their game interactions.

Like say, if you chat your character will do a short /talk emote. Further complicating this is if you used a question mark in your text your character would do a special confused talk emote, or if you used an exclamation
mark your character would to an excited talk animation. Things like "lol" "hah" "hehe" would trigger /laugh I think "" would trigger /cry, things like that
Or when you open your map or mail, your character will open a scroll and look like they're actually reading something.
Or when you've gone afk your character will take a seat and rest.
And what's even better is almost all of these (not the sitting of course) can be used while running, walking, sitting, and mounted.

It really adds a lot to the world and player interactions to have pcs actually talking with eachother (outside of virtually invisible mouthflaps) and interracting with the world.


I know they complained about this during fanfest, about making emotes being able to be used while moving, but I know their team is smart enough to figure it out for their engine (it might actually make cutscenes easier to animate tbh). I know it'll take a lot of effort to develop and test, but it would add so much polish to the (honestly very static, almost lifeless) game world.\

So yeah, instead of a new emote, I would like to see new systems for emotes.