What do you think of jobs having different stances than classes?

[KaplanHomahru]

Kinda makes me sad...I liked the different race's animations

[Kerwin]

We checked in with the animation team about whether or not races will have different animations and they said that there aren't any plans to have unique animations per race. Instead they'd rather show the uniqueness of each race through their emotes rather than their battle animations. They did say however that they are trying to create unique animations for many of the class and job actions by the launch of A Realm Reborn. Please keep in mind that there is a possibility that they might not be completed in time but that they will do their best!

Does this mean we are keeping the "Fist to Da Face" casting animation?

[AkiRouscelia]

I think the way the characters hold their weapons and move around with them drawn out could use a bit of change. Something that I would like to see is the way lances are held while running being changed to a more interesting animation such as that of Kain from Dissidia Duodecim.

[Theplatter]

We checked in with the animation team about whether or not races will have different animations and they said that there aren't any plans to have unique animations per race. Instead they'd rather show the uniqueness of each race through their emotes rather than their battle animations. They did say however that they are trying to create unique animations for many of the class and job actions by the launch of A Realm Reborn. Please keep in mind that there is a possibility that they might not be completed in time but that they will do their best!

Pretty sad, considering "that other online FF game" had different emotes AND action animations per race...

[Rokien]

Pretty sad, considering "that other online FF game" had different emotes AND action animations per race...

THIS ISNT FFXI GOSH!

[Jennestia]

Fare thee well, unique racial animations D: I suppose updated/varied skill animations will suffice though.

[bobbygunz]

We checked in with the animation team about whether or not races will have different animations and they said that there aren't any plans to have unique animations per race. Instead they'd rather show the uniqueness of each race through their emotes rather than their battle animations. They did say however that they are trying to create unique animations for many of the class and job actions by the launch of A Realm Reborn. Please keep in mind that there is a possibility that they might not be completed in time but that they will do their best!

I think this is a sensible choice as it's kind of a waste of resources to figure out some new way for each race to do haymaker etc., and every other ability under the sun. Like, that's just a pointless waste of time, especially since races already run in a unique way, and animate in other unique ways. They're already unique enough as it is. Classes however, could benefit more from such differentiation.

[Yucie]

I think this is a sensible choice as it's kind of a waste of resources to figure out some new way for each race to do haymaker etc., and every other ability under the sun. Like, that's just a pointless waste of time, especially since races already run in a unique way, and animate in other unique ways. They're already unique enough as it is. Classes however, could benefit more from such differentiation.

The current animations are extremely lame. We need new ones. Badly.

[Jennestia]

I think this is a sensible choice as it's kind of a waste of resources to figure out some new way for each race to do haymaker etc., and every other ability under the sun. Like, that's just a pointless waste of time, especially since races already run in a unique way, and animate in other unique ways. They're already unique enough as it is. Classes however, could benefit more from such differentiation.

They only have to look at their previous MMO -- They use the same team even.

[Dano]

they first will need to address the animations when activating skills, at this point they all use the same generic "power up" pose.