If they could just go look in their records from City of Heros/Villans and transpose all those wonderful emotes over to this game I’d be supremely happy.
While not all are appropriate to this game it does show what Anet is/was capable of producing when they put their minds to it.
The one I miss most is /walllean. (Man I miss CoX)
List
afraid (cower) (fear) (scared): Cower in fear, hold stance.
akimbo (wings): Stands with fists on hips looking forward, hold stance.
alakazam: Thrusts out one arm like you are performing a magic trick.
alakazamreact: Flash of light and a pumpkin is left where your character was. After a few seconds, the character reappears, looks around and shrugs
angry: Fists on hips and slouches forward, as if glaring or grumbling, hold stance.
assumepositionwall: Turns around and spreads legs as if getting frisked, hold stance.
atease: Stands in the ‘parade rest’ military position (legs spread out slightly, hands behind back) stance, hold stance.
attack: Gives a charge! type point, fists on hips stance.
batsmash: Hit someone or something with a bat, repeat.
batsmashreact: React as if getting hit with a bat, often used in duo with batsmash.
bigwave (overhere): Waves over the head, fists on hips stance.
binoculars: Gaze through a large pair of binoculars, hold stance. (Issue 9)
boombox (bb) (dropboombox): Summons forth a boombox (it just appears) and leans over to turn it on, stands up and does a sort of dance. (boombox plays music, several different short songs) (SOUND)
bow (sorry): Chinese/Japanese style bow, holds bow stance.
bowdown: Thrusts hands forward, then points down, as if ordering someone else to bow before you.
burp: A raunchy belch, wipes mouth with arm afterwards, ape-like stance. (SOUND)
buzzoff (goaway): Makes a go away gesture.
camera: Hold an old-fashioned camera, and periodically take a picture, repeats.
cellphone: Talk on a cellphone, periodically nodding, shaking head, and gesturing with hand, repeats.
cheer: Randomly does one of 3 cheers, 1 fist raised, 2 fists raised or 2 fists lowered, repeats.
chicken: Character flaps his arms and impersonates a chicken, ends in the “akimbo” stance.
clap: Claps hands several times, crossed arms stance. (SOUND)
clipboard: Write notes on a clipboard, repeats.
coin (cointoss) (flipcoin): Flips a coin, randomly displays heads or tails, and hold stance. Coin image remains until stance broken.
crossarms: Crosses arms, stance (sliiiiiightly different than most other crossed arm stances).
crouch: Squats down into a cat-like ready-to-pounce position, holds stance.
dance: Randomly performs a dance.
dance1: Dances with elbows by hips.
dance2: Dances with fists raised.
dance3: Swaying hands by hips, aka ‘Really Bad’ dancing.
dance4: Swaying hands up in the air, like in a breeze.
dance5: As Dance4, but jumping as well.
dance6: The monkey.
dice (rolldice): picks up, shakes and rolls a die, randomly displays the results (1-6), default stance. Die image quickly fades, so make a quick note of what the roll was!
dice<1-6>: picks up, shakes and rolls a die, displays the selected number, default stance.
dig
disagree: Shakes head, crosses hand in front, then offers an alternative, crossed arms stance.
drat: Raises fists up, then down, stomping at the same time, same ending stance as frustrated.
drink: Character holds a cup and drinks from it.
drum: Beats a large wooden drum.
drumdance: The Tuatha Drum dance.
drumlow: Kneels and plays a small wooden drum on the ground.
Drumlow
dustoff: Character dusts off his hands.
eatdonut (donut): Character eats a donut; note that this and eatfood have potential to look odd when performed on some model shapes such as the Dwarf Star form of Kheldians.
eatfood (eat) (food): Character eats a bit of food, usually a hot dog, hamburger or sandwich; Dwarf form of Kheldians and other “monster” skeletons will instead gnaw on a large bone.
explain: Hold arms out in a “wait a minute” gesture, motion alternatives, then shrug.
evillaugh (elaugh) (muahahaha) (villainlaugh) (villainouslaugh): Extremely melodramatic, overacted evil laugh.
fancybow (elegantbow): A much more elegant, ball-room style bow, falls into neutral forward facing stance.
fishing: Hold out a fishing rod and reel, hold stance.
flashlight: Look around with a flashlight out in one of two stances, either the flashlightup stance or the flashlightdown stance. Note that the light is only on at night.
flashlightdown: Look around with a flashlight aimed below head level. Note that the light is only on at night.
flashlightup: Look around with a flashlight aimed above head level. Note that the light is only on at night.
flex1 (flexa): Fists raised, flexing arms stance, hold stance.
flex2 (flex) (flexb): A side-stance flexing arms, hold stance.
flex3 (flexc): Another side-stance, flexing arms, hold stance.
flip (backflip): Character performs a standing backflip.
flippingcoin: Flip a coin into the air and catch it without checking whether it is heads or tails, repeats.
floatbooks: Places three magical tomes floating in mid-air, and character glances among them and holds stance.
flypose1: During flight, changes flight pose to arms fully outstretched in front.
flypose2: During flight, changes flight pose to one arm in front, one arm pulled back to side, and one knee pulled upward, as if flying to punch something.
flypose3: During flight, changes flight pose to arms stretched forward and to the side in a Y-formation.
flypose4: During flight, changes flight pose to head up and arms pulled back to side, in an “I dare you to shoot at me” pose.
frustrated: Raises both fists and leans backwards, shaking fists and head, leads into a quick-breathing angry-looking stance.
getsome: Turns to the side and pats butt in defiance.
grief: Falls to knees, hands on forhead, looks up and gestures a sort of “why me?” look with hands, goes into a sort of depressed slump while on knees, holds stance.
hand (talktohand): Hold hand out in a “talk to the hand” gesture.
handsup (surrender): Two stances with hands up, one standing and one kneeling.
hi (wave): Simple greeting wave, fists on hips stance.
holdtorch: Produce burning torch and hold it up.
howl: Lean back and howl at the moon.
huh (shrug) (what): Raises hands and kittens head in a classical “What?”/“I don’t know” look, neutral forward facing stance.
invent: Character fiddles with some kind of glowing Rubik’s Cube-style device that hovers on its own, repeats.
jackhammer:
jumpingjacks: Does jumping jacks, repeats. (SOUND)
kneel: Quickly kneels on both knees with hands on thighs (looks insanely uncomfortable), holds stance.
knuckles: Cracks knuckles.
laptop: Summon a laptop and a stand for it, and start typing.
Em laptop
laugh: Fists on hips, tosses head back and laughs.
laugh2 (biglaugh) (laughtoo): Another style of laugh.
lecture: Waves/shakes hands in different motions in a lengthy lecture, fists on hips stance.
ledgesit: Sit with legs over the edge of whatever you’re standing on with one of two postures.
listenpoliceband: Character produces the police band scanner and opens its display. Heroes only.
martialarts (kata): Warm up/practice punches and blocks. (SOUND)
militarysalute: Stands in the military-style heads-high hand on forehead salute stance.
newspaper (afk): Materializes a newspaper (don’t ask) and reads it.
no (dontattack): Shakes head and waves hands in front of character, crossed arms stance.
nod: Fists on hips, nod yes, hold stance.
none: Cancels the current emote, if any, and resumes default standing animation cycle.
noooo (curseyou): (that’s 4 o’s in noooo…) Shaking fist.
panhandle: Sits and waves a tin cup around as if asking for change.
peerin: Make “hand binoculars” and look around, repeats.
Picklock )
plot (scheme): Rubs hands together while hunched over.
point: Extends left arm and points in direction character is facing, hold stance.
praise: Kneel prostrate and and repeatedly bow in adoration.
protest: Hold hold up one of several randomly selected mostly unreadable protest signs.
readbook: Open a book in one hand, read while pointing at words with the other.
research: Pull out book and begin consulting it while making gestures in the air with other.
researchlow: Same as research, but kneeling on one knee.
roar: Claws air, roaring, ape-like stance. (SOUND)
rock/paper/scissors: Plays rock/paper/scissors, picking your choice (displays all three symbols for about 6 seconds, then displays and holds your choice until stance is broken).
salute: A hand-on-forehead salute, fists on hips stance.
score1 to score10: Holds a black on white scorecard up, ranging from 1-10 as specified, holds stance.
screen (touchscreen): Character observes and writes like on a monitor or chalkboard.
shucks: Swings fist and head dejectedly, neutral forward facing stance (not the default stance, same as huh/shrug).
sit: Sits down, legs forward, with knees bent, elbows on knees, and slightly slumped over, stance.
sitbench1: Sits leaning back with legs at almost straight angle.
sitbench2: Sits with right leg crossed under left.
sitbench3: Sprawls out with arms spread out, presumably on the back of the sofa or bench.
sitbench4: Sits upright with legs slightly extended in front.
sitchair1: Sits with hands on knees, legs slightly spread and squared.
sitchair2: Sits with arms on legs, slightly hunched forward.
sitchair3: Sits with hands on legs and legs slightly extended in front. (Same as sitbench4)
sitexecutivechair: Sit with arms at side, as if on armrests, and leaning back.
sitstool: Sit with one leg propped slightly higher than the other.
sittable1: Same as sit
sittable2: Same as sitstool
slap: Slap someone or something. (SOUND)
slapreact: React to getting slapped, often used in duo with slap (difficult to time just right to appear to actually get slapped).
slash (slashthroat): Slashing motion across throat.
sleep: Body goes limp while still standing. Zzz’s appear above character’s head.
smack: Backhand slap. (SOUND)
spraypaint:
stop (raisehand): Raises your right hand above your head, hold stance.
talk: Stand upright and slight bob head as if in a long diatribe. Periodically make hand gestures, repeats.
tarzan (beatchest): Beats chest and howls, angry-looking stance. (SOUND)
taunt1 (taunta): Taunts, beckoning with one hand, then slaps fist into palm, repeating stance. (SOUND)
taunt2 (taunt) (tauntb): Taunts, beckoning with both hands, combat stance. (SOUND)
teabag: Character produces a cup of tea and bobs a teabag in it endlessly. Loops.
thanks (thankyou): Gestures with hand, neutral forward facing stance.
thewave: Does the wave (as seen in stadiums at sporting events), neutral facing forward stance.
threathand (smackyou): Raise hand, as if threatening to backhand someone.
type: Types as if on a keyboard.
victory: Raises hands excitedly, and then again less excitedly, and then a third time almost non-chalantly, falls into neutral forward facing stance.
waiting: Cross arms on chest and tap foot. Periodically check wristwatch, and slice hand through air in an “I can’t believe he’s still not here!” motion. Repeats.
walllean: Casually lean against a wall in one of two postures (looks very odd when not standing next to wall).
warmhands:
wavefist (rooting): Waves fist, hoots and then claps (its a cheer), crossed arms stance. (SOUND)
welcome: Open arms welcomely, fists on hips stance.
whistle: Whistles (sounds like a police wistle), ready-stance. (SOUND)
winner (champion): Fist in fist cheer, right, and then left, neutral forward facing stance.
wounded: Stand in one spot and wobble, as if extremely drunk or stunned. (Issue 9)
yatayata (yata): Make “blah blah blah” gesture with hand and look bored, as if to say, “Is he still talking?”
yourewelcome: Bows head and gestures with hand, neutral forward facing stance.
yes (thumbsup): Big (literally) thumbs up and an affirmative nod, fists on hips stance.
yoga (lotus): Sits down cross legged with hands on knees/legs, holds stance. Works while flying or hovering.
edit: to move humongous list to bottom of my comments.
“What, me worry?” – A. E. Neuman
