Suggestion: More Battle stance animations

[HeyMcFly]

This probably won't get much traction but I wanted to put it out there

We can change our idle poses- so I suggest we are able to change our battle stances too!
And introduce more battle stances!
Some ideas- I'll add more later- but for now, please add your ideas!

Gunbreaker swings a giant metal blade over their head & back onto their shoulder over & over while in combat, which seems really silly when you think about it.
In combat, you're trying to attack something- so why constantly put your weapon behind your..head? I'd like to see Lightning battle stand animation or Squalls instead.

MCH- instead of just holding a giant gun with one hand, I'd like to see MCH also have an optional animation that let's them hold their gun with both hands (similar to their sprint when weapon is drawn)

Black Mage- Instead of squatting while holding a staff, I'd like to see an animation where they're.... NOT squatting. It makes wearing robes look silly imo

Scholar/ Summoner - A different battle animation where they don't one-hand their giant book- but it can float infront of them maybe? Or switch from holding the book from right hand or left hand? Or they use both hands or share the Lalafell animations

[Zebraoracle]

I would actually love more battle stances. I'd also love casting animation variants where we don't use the weapons as foci but sadly I know that will never happen.

[Renalt]

City of Heroes had an option where you can pick from a few different animation on your abilities. On top of that you can also change the color effects as well.

I imagine it won't happen here because of the go-to excuse of spaghetti code.

[Equitable_Remedy]

I'd welcome it, but it'd be so low on my list of priorities that I wouldn't actually want any resources devoted to it unless the animators really had nothing better to do.

[Deveryn]

City of Heroes had an option where you can pick from a few different animation on your abilities. On top of that you can also change the color effects as well.

I imagine it won't happen here because of the go-to excuse of spaghetti code.

They added a couple fishing animations, so it has nothing to do with code and everything to do with how much time it would take. I think that would be very low priority with all the other animation work that needs doing. Yoshi made note of how a particular death scene required some extra work.

[Renalt]

Ok good to know that it is something that can be done with some work. However I agree with what everyone is saying and it is not a priority because the game needs much love and fixes on many other aspects.

[Soge01]

Wouldn't mind a change to DRK. It just looks awkward with the way it holds its sword and espeiclaly woth the way it runs. When DRK runs, it looks like the sword is about to dip into the ground, get stuck and send its wielder flying like being launched from a catapult.

It'd rather have my character hold their greatsword like Guts/Cloud with the blade being firmly in front of you with both your feet planted firmly into the ground with one food foward and the other back. Would just make DRK look better period, along with making it more intimidating visually.

[Midareyukki]

Honestly, yes. At a bare minimum, I'd say let males use female poses and vice versa. That Saber animation for idle DRK is amazing. Meanwhile male DRKs have back problems.

I'd welcome it, but it'd be so low on my list of priorities that I wouldn't actually want any resources devoted to it unless the animators really had nothing better to do.

Can I be selfish and ask them making removing the hunchback on Hrothgar a bigger priority? ; ;

[Atelier-Bagur]

I also would've loved if they did racial specific battle stances and victory poses, kinda like how in WoW each race had their own way of wielding a weapon type.

I still would want this to be an option to share via cpose but I guess the easy thing to ask is to allow us to use both gender idles...or heck even also share all race idles

[Renalt]

People been talking about WoW so much that I kinda want to give it another go. Might do the WotLK private server again. So many classes I've not played yet causeI love Druid so much.