Not a big deal but now when my character back peddles she looks like a truck backing up instead of a graceful retreat
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Agreed this needs to be fixed, backpeddiling animation looks terrible.
Maybe report it as a bug
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Do more pilates?
It’s so funny how it looks on Trolls and Panda.
It’s us running backwards lmao. Has to be a bug.
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I just realized I don’t even know what the backup animation looks like
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It looks awful. There’s no reason for the change in the first place, the original animations were literally made for peddling backwards and they accurately conveyed the slower movement speed. I’m genuinely annoyed that any time and money was spent on this crap when Shadowlands has so many other issues. This isn’t even them putting no care into updating some of the animations, they straight up decided to break what was working for 16 years.
It makes me think they’re paving the way to put even less effort into future allied races than they were already. No need to spend time making a new animation if you can just reverse one you already made.
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Recognize bumpy
You need to work on your nelf hunter skills. 
More on topic: I haven’t even noticed a change, but last night was also the first time I’ve logged on in about a year, so that’s hardly representative.
Posting here to comment that the new backward walking animations are even more of a trashfire than Teldrassil.
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So it’s all toons?
I hope it’s a big cause dang it looks bad
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I can confirm, at the very least, that the femdrae’s new backwards animation looks wrong on a fundamental level.
Aww, is this now playing every time you back up now?
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Female human backpedaling was particularly sexy.
Now we just look stupid.
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I just really wanna know who at Blizz thought backpedaling needed to be changed.
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I really don’t like what they did with the animation… I’m really hoping this wasn’t on purpose. My female night elf now looks like shes running backwards instead of elegantly backing up.
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I’m not sure why anyone is even entertaining the idea that it wasnt on purpose. They’re new animations. It was on purpose.
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Running backwards is the least efficient movement. If you’re trying to dodge something by moving back, you’re doing it wrong. Better to strafe or move forward, or better yet mouse rotate and then run forward. Perhaps Blizzard is trying to “teach” the best way to play by making backpedal look ugly so you won’t use it?
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Can’t say I’ve noticed the change.
I explained why they made this change in another thread, but I’ll post it here too.
One day at a dev meeting:
Ion: I can’t believe we have NOTHING to do. Okay everybody, I want each one of you to pick one thing in the game that works perfectly fine. And then change it.
Dev #1: But what if it ain’t broke?
Ion: Doesn’t matter.
Dev #2 : But shouldn’t we be working on the pre-patch bugs?
Ion: Are you telling me how to do my job?
Dev #3: Should I stop working on class balancing?
Ion: Of course! I need you to make this your top priority.
Dev #4: I guess I can change the walking-backwards animation.
Ion: Now this guy gets it! Now get to work!
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the same problem existed in WOD when they changed something for female draenei, they eventually fixed it, and it looked exactly like it does now. it wasn’t something they changed, messing with customization does it.