Glamoured Abilities for Classes

[Halobump]

Something that came up in conversation today that I thought was interesting, was a YouTube video, showcasing some visual modification, making the Ninja look more like an advanced Rogue. Third-party aside, which of course, we're not advocating, it's an interesting way to diversifying and personalising one's character.

Making your White Mage more in line with a Geomancer with rocks and nature spells instead of bright lights? Your Ninja is more a Rogue with abilities more akin to Riku (Mudras become Mixes). Fire-Based Black Mage, Thunder-Based Black Mage, Ice-Based Black Mage, your choice! Your monk becomes more of a kicking-focused fighter, or has your Dark Knight redeemed themselves as a White Knight?

A glamour for your abilities, so to speak.

[Rongway]

Ability glamour in general would be too complicated and not worth the time for how hard it is to provide enough options to please enough people. It would make some people happy and then it would make a lot of people be like "well they added X, why can't we have Y" when in fact they would never care to implement Y no matter how many people asked. And I would prefer all that effort be directed toward more content rather than secondary animations for things that already have animations.

However, it should be easy enough to allow us to downgrade animations for actions that trait up. For example, choose to use the Stone III animation for Glare or choose to use the Rage of Halone animation for Royal Authority.

[Colt47]

Think the challenge they have is when they update abilities and add new abilities that overlap the old ones, the new one has a different animation.