Feedback:User/Jette/Gran mal instancing

All tonics should be usable out of towns in PvE areas.

I suspect 6th-year tonics were chosen because the new forms all already possessed a full array of animations, and that the older monster-form tonics can't be used out of town because of their incomplete animation sets.

The corollary to that perfectly valid concern is: nobody gives a crap. Every monster or almost every monster has a set of animations good enough for fighting, even if their emote set is incomplete. It might be a good idea to hide weapons with some (keyword: some, not all) tonics, such as abyssals and golems.

I was disappointed by the sixth-year tonics because the majority were all henchmen and NPCs we see all the time. I'd much rather play as a Mursaat with their wicked fucking awesome attack/cast animations than a hack playwright with a weight problem. Similarly, the bizarre meditation stance used to cast spirits is funny in a strange, stupid sort of way. The point is, having strange/silly animations is something players laugh at and enjoy, not something that makes them think "what a bunch of #%*$ing amateurs, putting out unfinished animations!"

Now for the kind of mean part: there's a reason that 5th-year white minis still cost between 15 and 40K after being out for a year and some change, while 6th-year white tonics cost 40-50K after being out for 2 months: they suck. Nobody wants to look like a hero. Some of the better-looking female ones are used by nerds to masturbate with, that's it. The non-human ones and gold variety ones (destroyers, margonites, Shiro, MOX, etc.) get better sale prices because (big surprise here) people like them. Being able to play as monsters is something I've wanted for a while now because it's cool. Being able to play as a hero never crossed my mind because heroes are stupid and boring. Letting people use older tonics in instances could be a kind of nice "sorry most of your presents suck" update.

Final thought: make the Margonite tonic turn people into Mallyx sometimes. Pretty please?

P.S. — for those of you who didn't get the reference, the title is a nod to tonic-clonic seizures.