Can you give Samurai improved Animations?

[Ryulaido]

Well i dont expect them to make an Anime Samurai cause he is already one. He already has cliche anime skills.

Since when do real samurais had sakura flowers or moon slashes? this is all made up by anime.

Only in games Samurai get connected to Sakura Flowers and the Moon. and alot of times to the ice element. soo it is already like that. So im like "if you alraedy go on that route why are the skills (some of them) so boring COMPARED to other skills of the exact same job?"

or like i said with the new iaijutsu skill that we dont get any new animation.

For example since the second iaijutsu is stronger you could make it charge 0,5 to 1 sec longer and then we get a stronger look in its animation.

but as i said i enjoy this game, i love it. i play it all day in my free time. so im not an enemy of the devs. im more like begging them to for example give us new animations for the iaijutsus or make shoha more fun/easier to use. because i never use it actually. so i cant use that one and only skill that i actually like from the animation because its so useless. its more useless than seigan and even that one im never using (or very rarely)

seigan is only useful if it wouldnt cost kenki. but thats just my opinion.

but thanks for the discussion i understand your opinion. i still wont give up and stay with hope they will consider visual changes. i dont expect them to revamp samurai and give them alot of flashy animations. just give the 3 iaijutsus at level 76 a slight visual improvement since you can use them twice in a row so the second one COULD be a little bit cooler or not?

my dark knight is level 71 now i think at 74 he gets his 2 new skills powered up. as far as i know THEY GOT new animations amirite? so why does sam dont get new ones? xD

ps. maybe im wrong and the 2 new drk skills dont get new animations at their level 74 powered up version but IF YES then its very unfair to sam. lol.

[Warlyx]

Sam use FFXI animations for gekko (moon), yuki (ice) and shoha (petals) , and of course FFXIV version has similar versions of that it isnt just because anime.


and DRK get new animations on the new 2 skills ....one empowers the blade with darkness spin it as a badass and hit the enemy....

[Kolsykol]

FFXIV is pretty damn Anime to begin with, lol.
I don't really know crap about Japanese culture, but I think that Sakura flowers hold a lot of significance culturally.
SAM looks exactly what I'd expect it to look like in an FF game.

I can't help but to cringe when I hear people say that something is cliche or generic in regards to Anime because a lot of the same people then go on to worship the most generic Western crap imaginable.
Not saying that the OP does but considering the state of the Western game industry and the complete lack of imagination and originality I welcome '' cliche Anime stuff '' in my fantasy.
I'll take it above '' guy/ girl with gun and google copy pasted T-shirt and Jeans '' or google copy pasted medieval armor anyday of the week.
And I mean is it any more '' cliche '' than Dark Knight's altogether, lol?
You could probably make that argument against every class, PLD comes to mind too and NIN.

I agree tho that the 76 Iajutsu's should have a different animation.
But the Sakura flowers and all that is totally in line with the SAM.
The Samurai holds a lot of signifiance to Japanese culture so it makes sense that it'd be '' very Japanese '' even in a Japanese game.

Edit: Btw, a Paladin was an actual thing historically.
And I am pretty sure that they didn't have actual holy magic either xD... All of these classes are pretty much just as cliche and generic if you really look at it.

[cactuarzzzz]

I only wish they make Gekko, Kasha and Yukikaze animation faster.

[Ryulaido]

no i never complained about the combo finishers. i really enjoy them to use. the main focus of this thread is about how bad shoha is so you cant enjoy using it and the other complaint is regarding the 76 iaijutsus just look the same without a new animation or at least changed color.

if i would develop an samurai i also would give him a skill where a moon makes an apperance and one with sakura flowers. but instead of ice element i would give him lightning element (cause thats very cool for me).

so im mostly satisfied with sam otherwise i wouldnt main him but im just sad about how they made the 76 skill and how useless shoha is so the only good looking skill is that one i cant really get to use. sooo yea.. this is very sad.

[Warlyx]

so im mostly satisfied with sam otherwise i wouldnt main him but im just sad about how they made the 76 skill and how useless shoha is so the only good looking skill is that one i cant really get to use. sooo yea.. this is very sad.

Yeah sad that some cool looking skills arent used often , while others are in rotation

I would like to see improved animations for 2.0 skills too some are me

Sam will get a thunder skill sooner than later maybe next exp

[Ryulaido]

a thunder skill would be just awesome. it would be amazing. please make this true. xD i have 100 ideas.

like for a new iaijutsu he charges the sword 2-3 secs and black lightnings are coming as an aura and then he unleashes an big slash.. man... so many ideas xD but instead we get a skill called shoha that is trash but looks good.

[Ryaz]

This is easy to answer, Gekko (月光) translates as Moonlight. Same thing with Chaos Thrust on Dragoon, if you ever wondered why does it throw cherry petals everywhere, it's because the Japanese name translates as "Cherry Blossoms Blooming Out of Season"

As for your other gripes, well, if you ask me, this game is actually pretty well animated. They generally don't reuse animation just with different coloured trail (I don't count Tsubame Gaeshi skills, because they are supposed to be repeats of the Iaijutsu), skills are wonderfully flashy and generally fit perfectly with the theme of the job they belong to. Some might look silly when you go frame by frame, like Heated Shots on Machinist, but I think they look wonderful in motion and make the game feel more dynamic than it is when you're just using GCD skills.

The whole Samurai combat set is based on the classic Japanese Setsu-Getsu-Ka (Snow Moon Flowers) artwork that was popular in the Edo period. Snow is Winter, Moon is Autumn and Flowers is Spring. Not sure why there's no Summer.

[Mahoukenshi]

no i never complained about the combo finishers. i really enjoy them to use. the main focus of this thread is about how bad shoha is so you cant enjoy using it and the other complaint is regarding the 76 iaijutsus just look the same without a new animation or at least changed color.

if i would develop an samurai i also would give him a skill where a moon makes an apperance and one with sakura flowers. but instead of ice element i would give him lightning element (cause thats very cool for me).

Lightning based skills would only make sense as new skills. Otherwise they'd have to rename existing skills and change the effects so that the skill name aligns with a theoretical lightning theme. Thematically, Iaijutsu itself would be a perfect fit for lightning, given the lightning-fast draw of blade (as also seen in *insert samurai manga/anime* à la Rurouni Kenshin or the rare MA Dojos offering it)

[Roda]

I just want my character to stop jumping around like some kind of mall ninja larper and root herself like shes actually meaning to kill something.