GD: Player Expression through Emotes and Animations

[Näamah-ragnaros]

[Customization] New Emotes and NPC-only Animations

So the set of (animated!) emotes available to players has largely remained the same for many, many years. These range from small things such as /nod, /wave, etc. to /cheer and /dance (which is its own can of worms given the Dance Studio from waaay back when). Despite this, though, NPCs have gotten a very large variety of exclusive animations, some of which became highly desired by the community, such as the poses that Guard NPCs perform while, well, standing guard, or the way some shadier NPCs l…

An interesting topic on CC for Roleplay, I already mentioned this before, Why WoW doesn’t have more emotes, animations?

However, there’s proof of the lack of interest or time from Devs, Most of the covenant abilities moved from Shadowlands to the talent tree still have the same animations without an option to use a glyph to show your class fantasy, besides that We got some allied races that doesn’t have any cultural relationship with their other similar races but keep the same dances…

BfA Allied Races: Dances & Racial visuals (Nightbourne, Highmountain, Lightforged, Void Elf)

Why Nightborne has the same dances that Night Elf? There’s thousands of years for them to develop another cultural dances…same for Lightforged Draenei, HighMountain Tauren…creating new dances and emotes isn’t a big request…

Those are just small wins for the community, also the topic of 300+ Toys with different CDs…What’s the logic behind some toys that only last 10-30mins but their CD is 200-300% that time?

[Rarumas-whisperwind]

@Näamah-ragnaros

Why Nightborne has the same dances that Night Elf?

They shouldn’t! It doesn’t make any sense! Nightborne need unique dances!!