Thread: Aesthetical wishlist for 7.0

Originally Posted by ZiraZ

I just think the Spring would look much better if it started grounded and ended in a small jump, right now the second you press it you are floating, just a quick jump like the 123 MCH combos, first you start doing the swipe attack grounded but then you jump and end with the small dive animation.

The instant air jump happens because the ability is based on an attack used by some mobs like Raiden (I think...?) in BA. I got quite surprised when I saw him using it. They didn't really make it from scratch.

Originally Posted by Mikey_R

Things like Dolphin Blow or adding more kicking animations. Something like a Somersault animation would have been good, but they put it into Celestial Revolution, which you never see.

Bring back Axe Kick from old PVP (frontflip into slam heel on ground, cause AOE cracks on floor)

For DRG stuff, the problem with Spring for me is that it's too 'floaty'. If it were more like... Phantom Rush? Where the DRG bounces around much quicker, jumping 'off of air' like in the SHB trailer, it'd probably feel better to me. Then again I don't really play DPS much so I'm probably not allowed an opinion on them

I'll just echo a previous post and say my main, WHM, deserves better than just another expansion of twinkly lights with Glare/Dia. Give us Quake Tornado and Flood, give BLM Burst somehow to round out the set, and if they're not giving our elements back, at least let us have another GCD to use like Banish or something

Give Bootshine the Raiden Thrust treatment already, it sucks. Upgrade Elixir Field too. I know there are people that love it because it's just a Kamehameha, but the novelty wears off quickly when you realise how goofy it looks in isolation, especially when it's a GCD now. I'm not a fan of Rising Phoenix either because it looks to Dancer-y to me, (yes I am aware its original name is Fire Dance) but I don't see them touching it anytime soon if ever.

Originally Posted by ForsakenRoe

Bring back Axe Kick from old PVP (frontflip into slam heel on ground, cause AOE cracks on floor)

Flint Strike is a slightly modified Axe Kick (which is also something you never see if you don't play Monk in lower level content). As far as my very limited knowledge of ARR/HW MNK goes the attacks that haven't returned in some form are old GCDs like One Ilm Punch, Touch of Death, Haymaker, etc. Shoulder Tackle too I guess.

W-what I want?? S-so hear me out okey listen...

For verflare and Verholy to sound like flare and holy, or something better. They just never seem to really get it right.

Originally Posted by SpeckledBurd

Agreed, Monk's visual and sound effects are both showing their age pretty fiercely particularly when it comes to its core weaponskills. I'd also add Rockbreaker and Bootshine to the Monk skills that need an overhaul. Bootshine is a level 1 skill with all of the sound and visual flare that that implies but even though it now has Leaden Bootshine making it one of the job's strongest weaponskills it's never gotten the Raiden Thrust treatment. Rockbreaker not only hasn't aged well, but it uses the same animations it had when it was a conal AOE just with the particle effect shooting in four direction now that it's circular and it looks all the more awkward for it.

I'd also say Elixir field could use a visual update since firing a hadoken at the ground is inherently kind of silly and subjectively it still feels like an oGCD animation to me since it was an oGCD for half a decade, but I'm pretty confident that it's front line for a level 93 Trait that changes its name, animation, and adds 50 potency in 7.0.

Maybe it's a hot take, but I never liked the idea of Elixir Field appearing that proeminently with the single target rotation.

It looks cool, but hella misplaced with boss fights. 99% of the bosses are huge and the animation looks a bit off when you do the hadouken at the boss' feet.

Outside of the standard combat actions, I'd like them to do a once off flavor ability for the jobs that lets you do something fun out of combat, yet doesn't count towards the hotbar total. Like perhaps let RPR sprout wings and let the action function as a flying mount. Or give WHM Float for a similar effect.

Originally Posted by Lyth

Outside of the standard combat actions, I'd like them to do a once off flavor ability for the jobs that lets you do something fun out of combat, yet doesn't count towards the hotbar total. Like perhaps let RPR sprout wings and let the action function as a flying mount. Or give WHM Float for a similar effect.

Oh, that's something with a lot of potential for other jobs... the 'cosmetic' feature that currenly only BRD currently have.

Dancers could have an out of combat dance, a variation of BRD's performance. Something like their questline dance that plays on its own like a persistent dance emote, but you can input some additional dynamic, live steps to make it flashier. They can keep updating this with new DNC specific dynamic emotes.

Astrologians could have a special fortune telling feature where there's an interface visible for you and the person you're doing the reading, possibly for outsiders too like you see with Triple Triad. Much like those online tarot card apis, and could use both the major and minor arcana.