Question: What powers do you want Alternate animations for?

IMO

Storm - Tornado could be your character twirling their hands around, like someone talking with their hands while saying mix or tornado. Some options besides the stand up like an X with your arms spread wide... could be some more castery type, and/or equipment based animations.

In general I'd like to see animations that can speak to origins: tech based, cast spell, chi-fu kinds thing etc.

I could see fire blaster doing all sorts of casts with a fire staff or sword, or burnign hands.

I just hate the squeeze your head to get the power out type animations (metalism)... could be a cold stare with energy running up and down the caster followed by eye beams or something.

I like DW sword, could add some variety though. I like DW guns so far, though I have not leveled very high. I would like to see more of a blaster type gun for the set though, a few futuristic options.

Fire control could use some work.... right now many of the animations are subtle, could make some over the top options for holds/stuns to balance it out.

Two-handed animations for Broadsword when attacking would be nice. The character simply applies their other hand onto the pommel of the sword when attacking and removes it when done.

Hack: Raise sword for a overhead swing with both hands.
Slash: Quick diagonal slash from bottom right to upper left with both hands
Slice: Similar to above but a horizontal line
Parry: Wielding the sword with both hands to 'push' away the enemy (only in animation, no knockback)
Confront: Rest the sword on both shoulders with a 'Hmph!' sound (that's right, alt sound instead of the 'Ahhh~' one, haha)
Whirling Sword: Rip off Link from Legend of Zelda with his Whirling Blade move.
Disembowel: Step back and lunge forward to plant the sword into the belly of humanoid enemies. Attack comes from low to high, to explain the knockup attack, haha
Head Splitter: Character focuses to apply extra strength to double handed swing similar to a baseball bat, but with a sword, explaining the knockdown.

Katana/Ninja Blade needs single handed animations too!

After playing a Dark/Dark Tanker I thought of something else I'd like that may have been mentioned:

Shadow Maul - I'd like a bit less "Punch" and a bit more "Tentacles of Doom"

Anything that changes the Psychic/Mental sets. (Mental Mastery, Mental Control, Psionic Assault, etc) ALL of them. I have yet to get anything with any sort of Mental related powerset past level 10, because I find the animations just THAT annoying for the majority of the powers. I'd be happy with either an option for NO visible effects (like some of the armor sets have), or just changing the animations to be more like Subdual, Drain Psyche, and Telekinetic Thrust. The whole vertigo rings blasting from your forehead thing REALLY annoys me. I will also echo the requests for more options overall for the various blast sets. Also, this doesn't really fall into the topic exactly, but I would love for Electric Control to get new sounds. >.>

I pretty much agree with everything I read in this thread... Different animations for Tough/Weave would be nice. On that note, though... My Shield/Dark Tank seems to be broken. In a very good way. The animation for Tough seems to be stuck using the animation and sound for one of the various Taunt effects. It actually looks really good.

Changing Sonic Blast in a manner similar to what I suggested for the Mental sets would be nice, too. Energy, as well. I could handle another option for animations for Kinetics, but that might just be because half my characters use it, and the same animations are getting old.

This may be a little late, and already stated, but with fire blast - would it be possible for the rest of the attacks to be able to come from the mouth like fire breath?

Oh! And it may have been said again, but can we get an option for the powers from sonic attack to actually come from the mouth area, rather than the forehead?

Two suggestions for Kinetic Melee:

[Burst]: Arms low, start building kinetic energy in yourself. Curl up into a ball in mid-air, then straighten out to release it all in a energy explosion.

[Concentrated Strike]: Ripper's animation. It needs a bit of lengthening, so add some hangtime and another full flip. Build up energy in yourself, then unleash it upon an unlucky target.

I would really like to see new animations for either broadsword or katana (probably bs, since it's one-handed) to resemble chinese sword fighting styles.

Think Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon or that crazy chick from Soulcaliber.

Wide, sweeping strikes, extended movements, and a lot of sidesteps and thrusts. Parry would be especially awesome, if you look at the parry/counterattack animations from Soulcaliber.

Definately two handed animations for all one hander melee sets. I would play a mace/axe toon in a heartbeat if I could get the stone hammer animations. Same with broadsword.

Basic movement using those of Seer or a Ghoul.

And yes, holding those big weapons with both hands would probably one of the most popular choice. Please make a two-hand scythe option for the Axe set, and I make one instantly!

I'd like to get rid of the "fire blast" animation. A fireball is not a baseball pitch!

Flame thrower tyep weapon for fire set and ice ( think mr freeze )
flash gordon type ray gun for sonic and energy blast

Wings.

Nicer if they are hung naturally on the back. Wings are extending too far from the back while resting. And they don't move natural enough - they are stiff solid - while the character is moving. Nicer if they swing like capes or tails. And they don't necessarily need flipping every time the character jumps.

Also, keeping the wings fully extended while flying will look rather cool.

At the moment, wings look like an awkard scaffolding stick out from the back.

Propel

I'd like to see some knees and elbows added to all the different unarmed power sets.

*Speed
*Medicine
*Sonic Blast

Didn't read through this entire huge thread so apologies if this was already mentioned but:

Something! Anything! For Kheldians.

Lets run down through my checklist:
Power Color Customization added to the game, Kheldians strike one.
Patron Power Pools and Epic Power Pools open up to all ATs, except Kheldians. Strike two.
Alternate Animations for Powers start coming at us, Kheldians strike three.

A bone tossed in our general direction would be nice.

The past reasoning was that there were few Kheldians because of the lv 50 unlock requirement. That has since changed, perhaps the quantity of Kheldians has also changed to make throwing them a bone worthwhile.

Lastly, to stay on topic, my vote for alternate animations is, you guessed it, anything for Kheldians, preferably alternate form shapes to pick from, say an extra tank form and an extra blaster form would be swell.

Not quite sure if that falls under alternate power animations, but since forms are powers, and alternate forms would require alternate power animations....

*Edited for spelling and general grammar boo boos*

When someone decided to pick up a set like Trick Arrow and Dual Pistols allow them the ability to choose which set they want to their animation to come from. This would cut down on the redraw factor.

Granted DP coming from Trick Arrow might be a bit odd. So for ease factor just make one the Primary. I can not imagine some of those crazy animations from DP being emulated by a Trick Arrow set.

Further it would nice if they offered supersoaker pistols for all those trick arrow effects.

Power Siphon from the Kinetic Melee set... the current animation looks like an AOE damage or repel aura. Really makes me want to reroll as a stalker for the regular build up.

Autoshotgun for Assault Rifle/Full Auto

new snipe animation for elec. Use just the right hand of the Thunderous Blast animation.