Spell-casting animation..?

[Tonkra]

But what I'm talking about is character himself, his movement, he's moving and circling his hips in a weird way while casting.

i think its great, its like he is floating/hovering in the air.. kind off. while casting.

i love that personally.. and also the effect color being apropiate to the element spell (green while casting wind, brown while casting earth etc)

and i think it will be even more fun, when playing yourself.


seriously the casting animation which we have now is so boring and feels just static... is blm fun to you? for me its not.. its just.. stand there in one place and press a button every 4 seconds.. with this new animation it feels hopefully less static


a conjurer is very spiritual so i think the "floating" animation fits it perfectly.
i first didnt like it too... but now i love it. it was just... because its so different to the current version. which is a good thing .

[TimonLoon]

If you really want to complain about something with the new animation AT LEAST make it a decent complaint. For example:

The stones don't travel all the way to the mobs like it does in other games. It just seems to sort of vanish and then the mob gets knocked back a bit.

^ that is a legitimate complaint about the new casting animation. The mods need to start going to town on these threads already and start closing all the ones opened by people spewing out something akin to a brainfart.

[Artiss2k]

I like it. I'm not sure how it's going to feel after seeing it hundreds of times but it looks pretty cool. the gif you posted looks way worse than it actually does.

I would like to see different animations at least for different types of magic. casting protect shouldn't look like you are about to drop meteor from the sky or something. you could leave the hand/wand to the forehead for milder spells.

[KiriA500]

Why are people saying stuff like "after X amount of times seeing this, I'll be sick of it?" We've had the same casting animations for both schools of magic and songs for over two years now, and frankly, they're lame. These new ones actually look like our characters are casting magic, which seems like it'd take more than just staring at your fist for a few seconds. Maybe we have to conjure up the elements to use them now.

Also, we haven't seen the THM/BLM casting in a gameplay setting yet, only the stuff from the trailers. From what I can tell, that animation will also be cool.

[AlexNiculaie]

When viewed in actual context, I think it looks fine. Certainly better than the current one we have. That sped up, looped gif really over exaggerates the actual move and makes it look worse than when it's performed in the game.

[Yucie]

It's really personal preference.

I like the current, understated "touching the forehead" animation, but obviously many others here don't.

On the usually quiet Japanese forum, there are actually a number of people saying the new animation looks weird... so who knows what will happen.

I strongly loathe the current casting animation because EVERY race essentially shares that animation. It only helps to promote non-uniqueness between the different races and sexes. The only minor difference in the animation between races is how they move their hand at the end of the cast.

The new one looks way better.

[Estellios]

Don't forget that this is only the casting stance for Conjurer magic. White Magic, Thaumaturgy, and Black Magic are all going to have their own casting animation.

[Khary]

Don't forget that this is only the casting stance for Conjurer magic. White Magic, Thaumaturgy, and Black Magic are all going to have their own casting animation.

Thank goodness for this!

[VanillaLatte]

I'm sure everyone noticed something *weird* about the way Yoshida's hyur was casting his spells in the last Live letter.

The first second for the casting animation is good, when you swing your weapon in a circle and it makes a cool effect (like what the Lalafell did in the trailer) but then the delay animation looks like a..



Whatever this is, it looks silly, don't you guys agree?
I hope it's a temporary animation, not *final* for ARR.

I agree - it looks idiotic to keep going up and down while casting.... (very stupid actually). It makes it feel like the mage is now dancing around instead of concentrating/focusing on the spell he's trying to cast.

But besides that, everything else is great.

[Ricky]

The current animations are terrible for the most part, anything is an upgrade, they are even shared between races right now..