Please make the Seraphism model swap optional

[IDontPetLalas]

Just add a toggle to be able to disable it and call it a day.

This looks like someone got stuck with the SCH job design and got their revenge by crossing a nun with a chicken. The end result isn't pretty.

[RethDaron]

So much for the SCH class fantasy. Really thinking of retiring healer.



Now I'll be forced trade military gear for robes.

[gilmorej]

I hate it.

I spend a lot of time to make my character look how I like with a glam that I want. Don't force me to wear a halloween costume because I pressed an ability button.

Will probably swap back to using AST as my main healer if it stays.

I feel like if this ability sticks, along with Enshroud, it's setting a stupid precedent for all kinds of dumb costume changes. I stopped playing a shaman during Cataclysm in World of Warcraft because it turned you into one of their edgy new elemental master character models for the duration and I absolutely hated it.

[GrimGale]

I don't dislike the idea of "Upgrading" your fairy to an Angel. That's fine. I saw it as a "supercharged" form. What's stronger than a little fairy? A little angel. Fine, cool.

I don't want to wear a white gown and silly angel wings on my back though. That doesn't look like I am "powering" up. Recitation feels more powerful. Even Emergency tactics feels more powerful. How am I being empowered by wearing long white robes and crown? What does purity and chastity have to do with Scholar. What happened to my mortarbard? My glasses? My medals? I'm not a priest, I'm not a religious figure. I'm a military tactitian that made a pact with an aether construct to defend an old coastal city.

[Zicdeh]

It’s already bad enough that the majority of healer gear is a fairly generic white robe. I’ve worked hard to avoid the look they specifically want to thrust upon us. Most of my glams share a reasonably close vibe with the artifact gear, just a bit less busy.

Plus, if they were going to have a visual transformation, the logical one would be to give Eos’s wings during dissipation, sans robe.

[Keichi]

I find the idea of becoming a angle funny.
But, it should be a skill of the summoner.

I mean, aside of the allways growing horns is the second most common thing for them, to have wings at the back. A form, that gives them wings, looks fitting.^^

[Icefall]

A capstone skill of shoving all 3 fairy iterations into canons to strategically set off at allies/foes would be appalling, but at least more thematically consistent with the class than whatever left turn is going on with Seraphism's forced outfit change.

I spend a lot of time finding looks that I like that aren't robes robes robes for my scholar. I like seeing my character proudly wearing Nymian green clothing. The Seraphism change is none of that.

Another issue with the model swap, which I've only seen mentioned in a couple places, is that some people purposely glamour their character in ways to help them with precise visual positioning, which throwing a robe over makes more difficult.

Continuing on that thought of positioning, having your character change visuals in a crowd makes them harder to see and to know where you are. I already felt bothered by how easy it was to lose sight of my Scholar when using Art of War in a large group of people or enemies since the character ducks down to hit the ground. Having my green outfit wearing Viera disappear and become some generic robed white figure amongst a bunch of other classes that already wear white and/or robes is not great for visual identity. Visual identity is the whole reason we aren't allowed to even glamour outfits across jobs/roles, despite how often NPCs are allowed to, so why is Scholar being given a White Mage/Astrologian cosplay?

I guess it doesn't matter that my Viera won't look right in 7.0 since I'll be looking at this generic Hyur model in a costume so often when playing my main. That graphics update sure is exciting -_-

[OgruMogru]

Spends years redoing the games graphics and making character appearance better only to immediately make it so that you cannot enjoy said new character appearance.

[Emitans]

Doing my civic duty and voicing my distaste for Seraphism. I don't like my character's outfit being changed, especially to a look that doesn't even match their job. If I want to wear holy robes I would be playing WHM.

[SeverianLyonesse]

I am also going to throw my disappointment hat into public commentary.

I don't even play SCH, but after the benchmark hinted at maybe getting an Alexander ability, I was hyped for SCH finally developing some sort of job cohesion AND getting some cool new summons. I believe Alexander, Warring Triad, and Eden would all very reasonably fit within Scholar's aesthetic; even Athena/Ultima or Omega could possibly stretch as well. It has so much potential as a strategic/scientific counterpart to SMN.

Seraphism is like the pure antithesis of what I was hoping for. It doubles down on by far one of the more baffling and auxiliary introductions to Scholar's kit (Seraph), is not flavorfully on point with the job fantasy at all, and is ugly as sin. By far the biggest disappointment in the 7.0 job actions. Just delete it already Yoshi-P if you still haven't figured out what it can do.