Barrels and crates...

The way an Avatar opens barrels and crates is currently a hefty karatelike kick that splinters the wood.

That is quite fine for the rural population, like my Ranger.

However I do intend in the future to create two additional characters that are either shying away from such a primitive show of brutal strength or would want to open them in a more elegant way.

Could you imagine for example a Wizard - instead of kicking the barrel/crate in, he snaps and sparkles his finger like a questgiver and the barrel and crates wooden planks disintegratte into dust that slowly sinks to the floor, giving access to the inside goods.

Or a Knight, Paladin or Templar might want to give the barrel / crate one well targetted and carefully administered hit with a heavy weapon on top, instead of moving their legs in some unseemly fashion, to reveal the insides of the barrel / crate...

 

How would the game figure which one of these archetypes I am?
This is not D&D, so there are no actual classes.

 

Runescape introduced animation variations through their cash shop. They added animations for most skill animations, but also teleports and stuff. This could be a viable option that would both allow us to chose and provide more funds to the game.

 

If there's a way to pay to be able to open chests / containers in combat mode, I'll pay.

 

To this day I do not understand that I can go from combat mode, switching to axe or pickaxe and chop trees or mine ore and back to combat mode again without a problem - but opening a common sack? No, you have to go out of combat for that to work... Even worse in a world where Mimics DO exist. When I touch a chest I want to do it with a 10footpole and not my hands...

 

Good question. Using the specialization is far too late to give the answer, so it would need to be a choice of the player once he has aquired some magical skill.

Game option: If available to your character do you want to open barrels and crates with a Chuck Norris Roundhouse kick for a martial display of your prowess? The snap of your sparkling fingers or a wave of your wand to disintegrate the wood planks to gain the contents like any true Magister of the Arcane Arts would? Or rather remove the containers bindings with a delicate blow of your heavy weapon so that it falls apart?

 

They will open using a bow but not any other magic I tried on them. Did not think to hit them with a stick or blade