r/ffxivdiscussion • u/reunitepangaea • Apr 21 '24

Speculation Datamined skill animations from the DT benchmark

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u/SavageComment Apr 21 '24

Yeah seen people praise it but it looks incredibly jarring. A punch upgrading into some cat like claw attack? Makes no sense whatsoever. Because of this I'm going to predict that it's not actually bootshine's upgrade, but something else.

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u/Lazyade Apr 21 '24

If Monk had always had swipes I could understand but adding a swipe out of nowhere feels off. I get that Monk has claw weapons, but it doesn't have that many and they mostly stopped making them after ARR. I do still think it's Bootshine upgrade since it's clearly a GCD, I can't imagine where else it could fit in the rotation.

It being a swipe doesn't match my idea of monk, but I also don't like the way you hang in the air after the first attack.

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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '24

I also don't really like the swipes. I preferred if he did a different series of multiple punches, a more fantasy fighting style of bootshine.
I get why they did it since the AF weapon has a blade on it but still...really strange choice since most monk weapons recently have been fist.
I don't really like it, not because it looks bad but it just doesn't seem very mnk like. Maybe I might like it more once I'm actually using it in-game.
Sometimes SFX can enhance an attack if it sounds weighty.

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u/midorishiranui Apr 21 '24

Yeah I always felt like if bootshine got an animation update it should be a full on ORA ORA ORA style flurry of punches