Best Fighting Animations? (Race)

[Burzum]

I'm getting FFXI tommorow and I've realized that I've left out one important fact when choosing Race......... The COOL! factor I don't want to look like a gimp when swing my weapons... ATM I'm highly modivated by the HUM Crystal Warrior... (one day maybe I'll have his style ) But if HUM's have shitty fighting animations will totally ruin my vision of greatness ... As many people have found... if you can't stand how your character looks/acts (animations) you'll soon lose modivation when it comes to those characters ... So If someone could maybe point me to a site that has alots of short clips on the different races with different weapons or Just if there is a general idea of who looks wield/goofie and who looks kick ass/smoothly animated... I am dying to know...

[Xero_0]

Elvaan male, period.

[omnigene]

Humes put a lot of movement into their motion. I personally like Male Elvaan too. Humes only hold great katanas cool, but they swing them goofy.

[Moo]

The only animation that has stood out in my mind is a Galka weilding a great axe. There was on in my group the other day and it looked vicious whenever he swung it. I wouldn't want to be on the other end of his axe.

The animation that sticks out as bad is an Elvaan running. Elvaans look like gimp retards running around.

[Shuketsu]

-Hume's don't look too bad running, but their butt shakes.. Attack animations aren't bad, kinda weak.
-Like Moo said, Elvaan look like gimps running around. However, they attack really cool (especially with spears).
-Mithra look pretty good all around, from what I've seen. Hold spears cool.
-Taru/Galka.. no idea.

[CalGore]

elvaan have the coolest fighting pose i think. Taru owns when they type /panic , thats the best thing i have ever seen lol. But go to the character faces and just pick what you like best.

[Anom]

I was PTd with an Elvaan MNK last night, and I would have paid to see the look on my own face when I saw him running around. It's like someone tied weights to his wrists, and then bound his legs together at the knees! I was expecting him to fall on his face eventually.

HOWEVER!

As soon as he started fighting with a pair of claws, it was totally awesome. His cross and uppercut motions looked really cool.

My Mithra MNK overall looks pretty cool. Doesn't run like a girl (just remembered seeing a female elvaan run and then thought of Peggy Bundy), and throws a punch pretty well. Plus their attack stance looks all offensive, too ^^.

[Otaku~gamer]

After a taru wins using grapples is the best..

[Tiamath]

This is completely off topic, but Burzum friggin owns \m/. And your icon thingy, what class was Galuf in that picture? I'm an FF junky. Oh and yeah, i'd go with Elvaan if I were you, they own.

[Burzum]

I believe he's Ninja.... I plan to start out Beastlord to establish a nice job to farm cash, etc... with so I can pay for my Ninjitsu when it comes time to lvl up Ninja ....

[Kagerou]

Love the crossbow animation for Elvaan
Hate the stance for daggers T-T











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[Taurius]

Each race has 3 types of swings for each weapon. MNKs have 4 if you include their kicks. The one thing I've found weird, is that Elvaan males seem to hold their 2 handed weapons left handed. Left hand on bottom, right hand on top. Maybe they are naturally left handed...
But as for just cool factor, of course Elvaan males. Nothing more stylish than seeing a Elvaan male mnk/war do double hit, kick, counter, counter in one attack. But I love the way Hume females run. So damn cute XD

[Cali]

Elvann battle stance for hand to hand combat looks... WEIRD... but when they use dragon kick, they look the most professional... (galka doing dragon kick is like a big boulder trying to spin, no offense galkas)

But afterall, taru > all in combat... just watch them fight, and you could laugh all day.

[Crowzukin]

Elvaan Male's stance for holding the great katana is terrible... It's like a kendo stance gone gay. Anyone who's played Silent Hill 1 and wielded the iron pipe will see the resemblance.

Their other animations are OK except for their running animation. They bob their necks like birds and it pisses me off every time I see it.

Hume male animations are all generic, and probably purposely so. Hume females have cute battle animations I think.

[Omena]

Hume females in battle stances look like their weapons are really heavy. They do lots of big swings to accelerate their weapons it seems.

Elvaan males have this looks before efficiency style. Monks hang their arms straight down between attacks, with sword+shield they stand sideways with the shield to the rear and sword to their front (did that make any sense?) and with great swords they kinda point the sword high up into the sky again making blocking impossible. Most elvaan male attacks look like the weapon was light as paper, though.