New Annimations are desperately needed

So.. how many of you are tired of carrying your greatsword like a baseball bat.or swinging your scepter like a.. well baseball bat.

Please for the love of god/or like whateverupdate this!

Developers always claim that animations are expensive and difficult to do, but there are cheap solutions nowadays, it's not 2012 anymore. You don't have to outsource to get mocap, either, so you can have new animations cheaply and forever when you have your own equipment.

Having said all of this, I have to suggest that while some of the in-game animations are beautiful, and the way the characters return to idle is always great, I think there's an issue with some of the skills looking ... not as good as they might. In the feedback thread for PoF there were about 50 posts that mentioned the word CLUNKY in the 7 pages I bothered to count them on. Make of that what you will, but I point my finger at animations.

Dancing !!!But yes, the animations in this game just feels like place holders atm

Yes please I'm so sick and tired of my Mesmer swinging her scepter or rapier like a barbarian swings a club!

Also can we talk about how the dual sword animation has the swords clipping into each other on every step?

It would be nice if Anet removed the pommel strike animation from the slashing auto attack of warrior swords and added a normal one.

@TheLazyOne.8509 said:It would be nice if Anet removed the pommel strike animation from the slashing auto attack of warrior swords and added a normal one.

This times 9001!!!

Seriously why would a Mesmer swing its sword like that... They even have an awesome rapier animation from that one aether chick.Gimme dat.

@Artyport.2084 said:New Animations are desperately needed

I do not believe "needed" means what you appear to think it means. You must mean "wanted". I know I do not "need" new animations. To be honest, it is one of the last things I care to see dev time wasted on.

@coglin.1496 said:

@Artyport.2084 said:New Animations are desperately needed

Needed!!bye felecia

the fact that they recycle these horrible animations for elite spec's also boggles my brain.

im still waiting for ranger dagger animations....because like others have said they are bugged and are showing thief animations somehow :angry:/s

Also, I know it's a big request but I would really appreciate a different idle stance for scepter. It's extremely brutish how your character hunches over with it clutched in their fist. I'd prefer to see it be closer to the staff pose where your character is erect and dignified, instead of the melee combat idle.

Though I fully admit that this is a royal buttload of work.

@Thornwolf.9721 said:the fact that they recycle these horrible animations for elite spec's also boggles my brain.

Tell me about it.

Melee staff holding animation is so bad as well.

@knyy.6427 said:Melee staff holding animation is so bad as well.

You mean hammer idle? :p