Our character models have so many interesting animations, yet so few of them are available via emotes. WoW has always been a social experience, and lately Blizzard has done some efforts (like new customization) to allow players to express themselves, so why not enable more animated emotes using existing animations?
By that, I mean emotes like /dance, /fear or /sleep, in which your character plays a certain animation until you move or do some other action. They don’t need to have emote lines in the chat windows, just playing the animation (and other players being able to see it) would be more than awesome.
That would be great for interaction, roleplaying and screenshots!
Some of the possibilities:
/combat, /battle or /danger
Your character draws its current weapon(s) and plays the combat ready animation (just as if you right-clicked a mob out of your range).
/brawl or /fistfight
Your character sheaths his weapons (if drawn and out of combat) and plays the unarmed combat ready animation.
/sneak, /stalk or /stealth
Your character plays the sneaking/stealth standing animation
/dizzy, /dazed or /stunned
Your character plays the stunned/dazed animation.
/standguard, /guard
Your character plays the NPC guard stance in which he/she is ready to draw his weapon.
/weapon, /weaponready or /guardready
You character plays the animation of guards with weapons ready that you see NPC doing around. There’s different animations for two-handed weapons and weapon/shield, but I couldn’t find any NPC doing the later.
/salutelong or /longsalute
Your character plays the /salute animation, but it freezes mid-salute and you stay in that position.
/showweapon or /artifact
Your character shows its weapons, using the animation from Legion artifact, according to the types of weapons equiped (dual-wielding, weapon/shield, two-handed, and so on).
/castmage, /castpriest, /castdruid and /castwarlock
Your character plays the right-click combat animation for the specified class.
Other possibilities
There’s some other animations out there that may have issues with implementation, like NPCs leaning their backs against the wall, or leaning towards tables, or cleaning the floor, or the second dance available for humans. It would be awesome if Blizzard could somehow make them available for players.
Conclusion
So, what do you think? It’s not a big deal, but the game has grown so much since the early days, there’s so many cool animations already implemented, but our emote options have barely changed since Vanilla.
It’s not like this would cost us a raid tier, right? Right?
Please, please, please!!!
from me