Q:
Hello! I was wondering if anyone knew of a place I could preview skill animations. For instance, I recently created a human female because I heard that the animations for a thief were VERY good as a human female (though I do feel very strange about rolling a female, even though it’s not for sexual reasons >_>).
As I was walking around the human starting zone, I saw an elementalist human female, the animations of which looked positively awful compared to the animations of my Asura elementalist. I don’t want to create a character and find out in a couple hours that I wasted the entire day on a character that I can’t stand to watch cast spells or use abilities. Is there a place where I can preview the animations? I already tried youtube, and they failed me…unless someone has VERY good videos in mind. I’m trying to balance the replayability with how much I enjoy watching my character. I don’t like that you can’t see transmutations on an Asura…but what if Asura has the best animations when I create my necromancer? Do I take the mediocre storyline and the fact that nobody can see my cool armor/weapons in exchange for better animations? I’d never know, because there’s no way for me to preview the animations…that I know of anyway….
If you can’t get out of it, get into it.
—Dan Bukvich
A:
Once you’ve done the first instance and are out in the real world, you can head over to the pvp-lobby. You can find it at the icon of the two crossed swords at the top of your screen. Once there you can buy cheap weapons from the npc’s and try out the different animations on the golem dummies.
(The weapons are not soulbound, so you can put them in your bank rather than have to keep buying them over and over again.)
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