I think the point the OP was making wasn't the fact that they aren't mithra but rather that ALL characters pretty much use the SAME animations and there's lil to no differences between racial animations here. Regardless of whether motion cap was used, just makes things that more dull and one more to add of the many MANY things that they didn't learn or take from 11. It's REALLY disappointing knowing that every single FF 14 race pretty much talks, acts, and moves the same way and the race is pretty much just a skin :S

On 11 each race acted and played different on top of having their own specific lore, you don't really get that sense in 14. So I agree with the OP in every sense that my Miqo feels like a fluffy human with a tail... its static and boring, some of us would like defining racial attributes. That being said, aside from the emote list (only diff aside from our "skin" between the races) there's much work that would need to be done to truly make these races seem unique and a definite preferred start is having racial + gender specific animations in battle. There was even difference in races and genders ability to perform ws's different (motion wise) in 11, weird as heck that my miqo jumps and swings weapons about in the same exact manner a Lala or Roe would...