Proposal: Glamour, but for upgradeable skills

[LilimoLimomo]

Sometimes you level up, and one of your skills changes into something new. And sometimes that's great! When Hotshot becomes Air Anchor, I found the aesthetic of the chains to be really col!

But sometimes a skill changes into a new skill and you lose something you liked more. And that's a bummer. I miss the sound of Chaos Thrust. I miss the delightful pew-pew-pew of Spread Shot. I miss the solid aesthetic of Stone IV.

Because of this, I would love it if there was some way to select which aesthetic your own upgraded skills use. That way those who prefer the new animations can use those, but those of us who prefer the old aesthetic don't have to lose it in up-to-date content.

[ChrysOCE]

Nice idea! And yea, I also prefer the spread shot over shotgun animation.

[Mayhemmer]

One of my most desired features. I'd love to revert Royal Authority animation back to Rage of Halone, and MCH's shots back to their un-heated versions.

[Thurmnmurmn]

I probably wouldn't use it but it's still a solid idea.
One thing that would be funny would be if you could glamour different spells all together. Imagine a mchn with all his ogcds set up as drill. Or a war spamming fel cleave even more than usual :P

[ty_taurus]

I've talked about this before and called it "action glamour" There's also the potential to add new animations to replace existing actions without changing them. For example, in Bozja, Atori's dragoon animations are different, and all cherry blossom themed. Or you could make bard actions that replace the archery with music attacks, and so on.

[Raikai]

Sometimes you level up, and one of your skills changes into something new. And sometimes that's great! When Hotshot becomes Air Anchor, I found the aesthetic of the chains to be really col!

But sometimes a skill changes into a new skill and you lose something you liked more. And that's a bummer. I miss the sound of Chaos Thrust. I miss the delightful pew-pew-pew of Spread Shot. I miss the solid aesthetic of Stone IV.

Because of this, I would love it if there was some way to select which aesthetic your own upgraded skills use. That way those who prefer the new animations can use those, but those of us who prefer the old aesthetic don't have to lose it in up-to-date content.

Oh, I love that. I think I prefer Malefic 2 the best. I find the latest one way too busy for a spammable action. I also think that SGE's Physis with the 'searchlight' effect is much better than Physis II when the Sage takes off lol.

[Raikai]

I've talked about this before and called it "action glamour" There's also the potential to add new animations to replace existing actions without changing them. For example, in Bozja, Atori's dragoon animations are different, and all cherry blossom themed. Or you could make bard actions that replace the archery with music attacks, and so on.

The Ninja boss from Mt. Rokkon also has unique mudra casting effects themed around cherry blossoms that would be so nice to have.

[CaptainLagbeard]

While we're at it... How about the ability to change the elements of BLM's spells? Replace Fire spells with Lightning or Air, or Ice spells with either Earth or Water... Mostly to just keep the Astral and Umbral theming of the spells rather than just going with any combination...

[Iscah]

Newer skills are far too effect-heavy for my liking and there is no middle ground between "full light show" and "turn all effects off".

[Iselion]

Wholeheartedly agree, action glamour could be an entire new class of reward for content, something alongside normal clothing glam.

Changing new skills to older skills or current skills to removed skills. Being able to use Butcher's Block over Storm's Eye would already be an improvement.

Giving White Mage access to elemental versions of their spells again, maybe powered up.

Giving Black Mage more options than just Fire, Ice and Lightning.

Allowing existing classes like Paladin to have multiple class fantasies, such as a Paladin that is more about summoning holy stuff and one that is just a run-of-the-mill "I like steel and I swing" knight.

Replacing Summoner summons and egis to visually different options while keeping the functions intact.


There's a reason mods that edit these kind of things are exceptionally premium and coveted. You need to see some new stuff after hundreds of hours of playing a class.


Of course, this would have to be an optional toggle to enable on yourself or other players, so inexperienced players wouldn't be confused by two summoners having different summons.

Imagine if they made V&C and Deep dungeons drop the glamours as well? We might finally have a reason to do them. The cherry clossom Ninja from Mount Rokkon comes to mind. I wish my Ninja could do what she did.