In EQ we sat while meditating in combat, stood up to cast etc, then sat back down to meditate.
This created a gameplay style for casters which was very static and sometimes looked a little silly, just sitting around, standing up to cast 1 nuke or heal and going back to sitting for the next few minutes.
In the first stream with Hive we instead saw a moment where he stood and prayed to meditate.
https://youtu.be/KwEiwRLQzTU?t=5m49s
Are there any plans to make this the default animation and standard for meditating in combat?
So that if you try to sit during combat you instead stand and pray like in the animation above.
I think it would look more realistic and be much more fluid when weaving the necessary combat meditating with casting spells or melee combat.
It also looks more realistic to be standing and praying to focus and channel more mana back while engaging in combat than to just sit on the floor while enemies are running around hacking and slashing at people. It could also be used if any class has an ability to focus mana back suddenly during combat, but in this state the animation could channel the blue mana lines back brighter with more intensity to reflect what's happening.
Out of combat, sitting should be fine, and that would also be the mode that generates faster health and mana regeneration rates and looks fine in that way as you are actually sitting and recovering while not engaged in combat.
