Emote Suggestions

[Gula]

I would love an emote that was a polite way of saying "no."

I RP as a silent player using only emotes and I've run into this issue where the only emotes I have very abruptly or aggressively say no or I just have to use custom text.

I like how they did this with greetings. I hate female roe /wave because I look like a madwoman flailing from a distance. A simple head shake would be nice. And our stoic nod that isn't on the emote list for some reason.

[gilmorej]

Honestly, I'd just like a lot of the English emotes to get a 2nd look by the localization team. I feel like a few of them don't have text that matches the slash command given to them, and sometimes I find myself stumbling over trying to remember what the commands are because the commands don't necessarily line up with what you get out of the emote.

Examples:

• /thumbsup says "You agree wholeheartedly" -- Why not just "You give a thumbs-up" because we already have /nod for agreeing with people.
• /upset says "You look disgusted" -- Just, what? Why? This doesn't make sense. Should just say "You look upset."
• /huh says "you fail to understand John Doe." -- That seems like a word salad; why not just say "You look confusedly at John Doe"
• /deny says "You disagree vehemently" -- In this case I think the description works well but the command should be /disagree
• /angry says "You are frustrated with John Doe." -- Frustration and anger are two different emotions, this should be "You are angry with John Doe."
• /doubt says "You question John Doe." -- The animation looks more like we're accusing John Doe of something, though, and makes this a very strange emote. It should probably say "You doubt John Doe's motives."

There's a whole lot more examples, but I don't wanna turn this into a wall of text.


What I'd also like to be able to do is give an emote animation a custom description.

For instance, typing /laugh thinks John Doe is silly. would play the laughing emote animation, but the text description would say "Olivia Steelheart thinks John Doe is silly."


Besides that, I'd like to see some of the Viera emotes get reworked. A few of them feel very low-effort, such as /rally, /psych, and particularly /joy. Every time I complete a dungeon, and watch my Viera do her lame, scripted, /joy emote (which just makes her tilt her head to the side and open her mouth wide like she's slipping into a coma) it just makes me irritated.

[TwiibieTwuu]

What I'd also like to be able to do is give an emote animation a custom description.

For instance, typing /laugh thinks John Doe is silly. would play the laughing emote animation, but the text description would say "Olivia Steelheart thinks John Doe is silly."

I think you can actually do that using Macros! you see healers all the time with unique raise macros! I'm pretty sure there's some custom emote macros by default!

[Bryan_Weary1]

I think you can actually do that using Macros! you see healers all the time with unique raise macros! I'm pretty sure there's some custom emote macros by default!

You can indeed! See this Reddit guide, linked below.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...h=f3b9e9a0.com

[gilmorej]

I think you can actually do that using Macros! you see healers all the time with unique raise macros! I'm pretty sure there's some custom emote macros by default!

You can indeed! See this Reddit guide, linked below.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...h=f3b9e9a0.com

Thank you for the advice, but macros aren't what I want. I want to just type a single line to do an impromptu custom (animated) emote.

Using macros won't work for me, because you have to put macros that you've pre-made onto a hotbar to use them, and I already have 3 hotbars on my screen full of spells/abilities. I don't want to fill up more hotbars with random one-off emotes to click on.

Allowing custom emote text with the emote's specific slash command would add more flexibility to the emote system. Then I don't have to fill up hotbars, or I don't have to hunt around some nested hotbars with the mouse trying to remember what the icon for the custom emote I'm trying to find looks like.

[Bryan_Weary1]

Thank you for the advice, but macros aren't what I want. I want to just type a single line to do an impromptu custom (animated) emote.

Using macros won't work for me, because you have to put macros that you've pre-made onto a hotbar to use them, and I already have 3 hotbars on my screen full of spells/abilities. I don't want to fill up more hotbars with random one-off emotes to click on.

Allowing custom emote text with the emote's specific slash command would add more flexibility to the emote system. Then I don't have to fill up hotbars, or I don't have to hunt around some nested hotbars with the mouse trying to remember what the icon for the custom emote I'm trying to find looks like.

Since there is already a way to do what you are looking to do(albeit not exactly the way you WANT to do it), I doubt they'd spend dev time on such a request. But, good luck to you either way!

[einschwartz]

I need this!

[einschwartz]

Found another while exploring The Nest.

[Joven]

A /doggiepaddle emote when swimming

[Rasikko]

The I asked for, though different name, (/leanagainstwall) was implemented (/lean). ))