FFXIV Developper please consider replace bloodspiller animation with Cloud's Braver

[cactuarzzzz]

FF7Remake Cloud's Braver> https://youtu.be/LI3fxSkEWLU?t=1871

Or at least cut the "Flexing Leek Spin https://gfycat.com/heftyyellowishgroundbeetle" part out.

What it look like with the Flex & leek spin part cut out = https://gfycat.com/weetinyiguana

I believe changing animation isn't too hard for you for patch 5.3

[Jirah]

Ew no. Just play 7 if you want to play as cloud. Get that grabo away from DRK

[Kniteroad]

Yea no. Melee LB1 or LB2 (I forget which) is the braver animation. That makes no sense to have it as a dark knight animation. Goes against the DRK style, or what style it used to have at least.

[TouchandFeel]

Ew no. Just play 7 if you want to play as cloud. Get that grabo away from DRK

DRK already uses a number of Cloud direct or inspired by animations, so that precedence is already there for using Cloud's animations as a basis for DRK animations.

Yea no. Melee LB1 or LB2 (I forget which) is the braver animation. That makes no sense to have it as a dark knight animation. Goes against the DRK style, or what style it used to have at least.

It's the melee dps LB1. It summons a huge glowing Buster Sword, has the character jump into the air and do a couple of slashes with it. It's called Braver but doesn't actually use the same animation as the FF7 limit break Braver, which was a jump up into the air with a single overhead slash. Even FF7 Remake doesn't use the original animation and changed it into a front-flip and slash, likely to make it more flashy looking.



So while DRK uses Cloud as inspiration for animations, I disagree with the original posters' request of using the FF7 Remake Braver animation for Bloodspiller. The current animation looks fine, it just doesn't look good spammed back to back a bunch of times, and that is pretty much true of most animations. Besides, if people think the current Bloodspiller animation looks bad when being spammed, repeated front-flips would look just as bad or worse. So ... no thanks I'll pass on that.

Here is a link to a video with all of Cloud's limit breaks and a quick off-the-cuff list of animations that DRK uses that are taken from Cloud.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KG0-4WC-LYo
- DRK /vpose and /bstance are directly pulled from Cloud.
- Soul Eater is the animation for Climhazzard.
- The now removed ability Dark Passenger was basically Blade Beam with the trail vfx changed to look more "Dark Knighty".
- While not exactly the same, Carve and Spit is very similar to Cross Slash with the three consecutive slashes where it could easily be considered to be inspired by.

[cactuarzzzz]

Ew no. Just play 7 if you want to play as cloud. Get that grabo away from DRK

You didn't even know how much DRK already borrow from Cloud. Talk about embarrassing.

[cactuarzzzz]

So while DRK uses Cloud as inspiration for animations, I disagree with the original posters' request of using the FF7 Remake Braver animation for Bloodspiller. The current animation looks fine, it just doesn't look good spammed back to back a bunch of times, and that is pretty much true of most animations. Besides, if people think the current Bloodspiller animation looks bad when being spammed, repeated front-flips would look just as bad or worse. So ... no thanks I'll pass on that.

We can agree to disagree if you believe we need this weird flex : https://gfycat.com/heftyyellowishgroundbeetle

[Jirah]

You didn't even know how much DRK already borrow from Cloud. Talk about embarrassing.

Such as.....

[cactuarzzzz]

Yea no. Melee LB1 or LB2 (I forget which) is the braver animation. That makes no sense to have it as a dark knight animation. Goes against the DRK style, or what style it used to have at least.

Try not to rely on other people to correct you next time.

[cactuarzzzz]

Such as.....

Do I need to guide you to TouchandFeel's reply too?

[Agner]

Yeah, I wouldn't mind more Cloud inspiration. If they really want to keep Delirium the way it is, I'd say the Bloodspiller animation should at least change into something that FLOWS well when pressed five times consecutively. As it is now, it just looks ridiculous.

I don't really think Braver would be a good choice for it, though; it'd feel a bit too much like repeated plunge. Maybe something akin to Cross Slash with extremely heavy blows—though as TouchandFeel pointed out, Carve and Spit sort of feels similar to that anyways.