Its time to fix Elezen

[VirusOnline]

I despise Elezen animation. It’s awful. I always walk or run with my weapon out to change it. I really wish the animation would be based on attitude instead of race. I may play as an Elezen, but I don’t consider myself as posh and elegant, but more rough and tumble type that kicks ass and takes names! I mean think about it, do all Asians walk or run the same? Do Blacks? Whites? No each person moves based on their attitude or ability.

Ah well Elezen is the posh race and it reflects in emotes/physical movements.

[MsQi]

I despise Elezen animation. It’s awful. I always walk or run with my weapon out to change it. I really wish the animation would be based on attitude instead of race. I may play as an Elezen, but I don’t consider myself as posh and elegant, but more rough and tumble type that kicks ass and takes names! I mean think about it, do all Asians walk or run the same? Do Blacks? Whites? No each person moves based on their attitude or ability.

I wouldn't mind something like an "attitude" setting that effects animations and emotes. Other games have something similar. The option to create attitude or emotion profiles where you can select animations and emotes form many or all races might be cool. There is a sick part of me that wants to see all races running like Lalafell.

[Nuna]

I think the head to shoulder ratio is a big problem as well.

[Keyakku]

Nooo dont touch me! X.x

[Anselmet]

What? Elezen's emotes are fine. And while my back looks a tad stiff its far better than the male mi'qote swollen testicle run and the male au ra inelegant 'run'. We are supposed to be refined and posh. Our emotes reflect that along with our running animations. However, I will say that Elezens really do need some love in the facial department. One of our faces (the young male one) is very pixelated and its skull seems smaller than the other male heads. This is an issue that I think almost every race has and needs to addressed. Fix the pixelation quality of the faces that clearly have this issue.

[Tempest222]

I feel like altering something like that would be kind of tough so long after the release of a race, not because it can’t be done, but because there are going to be people who play the race who just love xy and z things about it, and if the devs just up and change something kind of significant they could alienate their existing elezen players. I do however think it would be great, and sorely needed for them to add a full four facial options instead of just having the current 2. That way elezen players wouldn’t be forced into a change they my not like, while also having more options if they wish, and more faces could draw in people new to elezen as well.

[Moomba33]

I feel like altering something like that would be kind of tough so long after the release of a race, not because it can’t be done, but because there are going to be people who play the race who just love xy and z things about it, and if the devs just up and change something kind of significant they could alienate their existing elezen players. I do however think it would be great, and sorely needed for them to add a full four facial options instead of just having the current 2. That way elezen players wouldn’t be forced into a change they my not like, while also having more options if they wish, and more faces could draw in people new to elezen as well.

This!
Eva's emotes and motions have been part of her for nearly 6 years now. I like them and I don't want them to suddenly change on me.

[Gula]

This!
Eva's emotes and motions have been part of her for nearly 6 years now. I like them and I don't want them to suddenly change on me.

There was already major upsets with PVP changes (which were not around 6 years) as well as job simplification. Changing something you see literally every time your character moves would probably even have staff members going ????

A major change in animation would have to have a toggle somewhere because it's comparable with switching races entirely.

[LadyBaelcrest]

You've already got your animation guys dressed in those silly black tights with the little mocap balls all over them, you should really just get this done and out of the way.

I might be wrong, but I'm pretty sure we haven't had motion capture since around 1.0. That's why so many animations look fairly stiff at times.

[Skolopendrokot]

I agree that Elezens definitely need more love from SE. It would be nice to fix their 'giraffe proportions' a bit and still keep them tall and elegant. The running animation doesn't look too bad for me (like 'Hey, I am an Elezen, do you really expect me to run like a mere peasant?'), but their sprint looks awful, a bit like a high-school girl in a big male body (with the knees inside and feet outside). I like their emotes in general, but you can clearly see that some of them are just too simple in comparison with other races.

I personally don't have any problem with their outfits - they are tall and slender, so many of them look actually better than on other races. But it's just my opinion.

Of course, it's not a priority for me, but I think that it's one of the reasons why people don't choose Elezens during character creation.