Is this a weapon customization request or alternate animation?

I have a storm summoner, of the medieval variety. I want him to have a 'piece' (wand, staff, titan weapon, single wield melee) that he doesn't even have to have activate a power, kind of like alternate animations on sonic resonance. Wizard, fairy, arabic jhin, african shaman, native american medican man. I want to wave something and make the clouds part in angry claps of lightning.

We have glowie hand auras. Burning eyes abound. We now even have skid marks that trail behind teammates.

Or, you could let my pet German Shepherd do it

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HelinCarnate:OMG it is so terrible. I have the option to take 3 more powers but no additional slots. Boo F'ing hoo.

That's something the engine doesn't currently support, I'm afraid, so it's neither. You're talking about firing your powers out of a weapon, and weapons come with their own activation sequences that alter your basic run, jump and idle animations. All of the animation customization we've had so far has always stayed within the power's native activation sequence, and I'm pretty sure the tech to swap to a new one doesn't exist yet. I certainly don't know of any precedents.

That said, I'd like that, personally. This is one of those "last big things" that the game could still reach for, but which would probably be a hell and a half to make. In general, being able to fire non-weapon powers out of weapons, fire weapon powers out of your hands and fire one weapon's powers out of another weapon's type is a great idea that I will always support.

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