Dancer a bit feminine

[Kabooa]

Eh. Can I recommend Monk to you, then? They have a good variety of combat animations that range from quick and efficient, weighty and extravagant, simple and brutal, and suitably fantasy troped.

[Eldtagg]

Eh. Can I recommend Monk to you, then? They have a good variety of combat animations that range from quick and efficient, weighty and extravagant, simple and brutal, and suitably fantasy troped.

Not really what im discussing..

[Kabooa]

Not really what im discussing..

You want the dancer to have dance variety in its moveset.

It won't happen anytime soon.

Monk, however, draws a wide inspiration for its moveset and among them is more break-dancery actions such as its 2-step aoe and Dragon Kick.

[Lersayil]

It's highly subjective, but yeah I also think that some job animations are designed with largely one gender in mind. WHM, DNC, WAR and to a lesser degree MNK comes to mind. Its noticable, but none of them are by any means horribly genderbending to my taste.

...Then again, this is one of the reasons I play mostly female races. In my very subjective opinion, they are the ones that most of the animations fit with. (and yes the other is me being a middle aged man, so the rule says I have to play a female miqo or aura).

[Hamakakun]

As someone who practice martial arts, i find dancer have the right amount of grace and punch as any other martial arts that originated from Asia. Silat, Kung Fu, even Muay Thai have some sort of dance-like in thier movement. That is where the "arts" are. But i can understand why westerners have different opinion on this.

[Samsta]

So? Is there a point in this post? Yes, some roles are better suited to some genders due to our cultural background and uprising, nothing weird about that, most people see warriors and tanks in general to be the manly man job.

[Jaywalker]

Haven't played dancer so this is pure speculation, but maybe strategic glamour could help? The animations are what they are, but idk if packaging them differently can offer different impressions. Imo if you manage to tie in a bright green and black that could unify with the peacock feathers/fan animations, and if the glamour style is more masculine it might read a little differently. Depends on what you're going for.

That said I would've loved to see more variety in dance options.

[VictorTheed]

It's not to bad on male lalas cause we already kinda have the adorable looks to make you not cringe when seeing us as a DNC but I crack up laughing when I see other male races doing those dances, it's hilarious like that songbird dance emote.

Some of the annimations remind me of a bowler for some reason so it's not as womanly as I thought it would be but if I wasn't a lala I probably wouldn't play it, probably just lvl it and drop it, I to wish we had some hip hop dances cause that would look cool.

[CKNovel]

People already pointed out Monk. We straight up thought Lyse was a dancer, surprise she's a Monk, with heavy movement as you wish.
They exploited the "heavy" and "violent" side with Monk. Dancer is meant to be gracious and light, which is the other end of the spectrum.

Monk is what you want, if it doesn't satisfy you, what can we advice to you? The only answer would be to wait for a third job imitating a sort of dance.

SE won't make the Dancer breakdancing or heavier move or that would simply be a ranged Monk.

Light, Gracious, Supportive =/= Feminity
Heavy, Rough, Violent =/= Masculinity

[Taranok]

Heavy, Rough, Violent =/= Masculinity

If only there was a male option that wasn't heavy, rough, or violent that also wasn't lalafel, since females at least have roegadyns if they want to be heavy, rough, and violent. In addition to lalafels. Okay, it's not a very good joke, but more options is more better, and I'd like to see a feminine male model in the game.