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.