I miss old chaos bolt especially, but the spells just aren’t smooth looking as they used to. Demons look nice though.
Gotta miss old shadowbolt with the skull, looked so cool.
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We talking about the same demons? Almost all of them look awful and need updates.
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Warlocks have needed new animations for years, but when they put something new out it looks so bad that everyone wants the old one back and then we are stuck with it for the next 5 years. Que drain soul now.
Spells that need updated:
Shad bolt: purple sparkly gob. Just horrible, embarrassing to use. The old one with the skull was better.
Drain soul: again, blizz tried and screwed the pooch, still needs updated.
Chaos bolt: the old one was better but they both sucked.
Soul fire: they tried to put a mage’s greater Pyro in this place on beta and it looked so bad i ended up laughing my face off.
MR: brand new spell, brand new animation suck. Feels like nothing.
Drain life: its ok but when you use ID with it, nothing animation wise changes. Disappointed.
Soc: the sharp red one that it used to be was great, the new ‘soft’ green one is gross. Que SB here as well.
Dots: all pretty much look the same with little detailed changes. Nothing special. Doesnt ever feel organic or like ur dotting the target.
Incinerate: still the same animation for like the last 10yrs. Its ok, needs work.
Shadowfury: supposedly it has an animation? Lol
Haunt: little white glob, idk what they were getting at.
Rof: same animation for last 5+ yrs. Too afraid to ask bc they will turn it into some sparkly crap.
Demons for demo: like 10yr old animations. Just bad
Life funnel: still same animation for over 5+ yrs. Que rof fears here.
I dont think I need to continue, my point is made.
I will never agree that the new Chaos Bolt is bad. Visually it’s so damn satisfying to use. It’s a big ball of FU fel energy. It just needs the damage to match the visual.
Changing Shadow Bolt is just a travesty and whoever green lit it needs to be fired or at least revert the change with a public apology.
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I was so annoyed in BFA they have a updated Version of the old Shadowbolt skull, why couldn’t we have it?.
Go into Underrot after the 2nd boss theirs “Grotesque Horrors” underground, they spam Death bolt, it’s basically our old Shadow Bolt updated… it even has an awesome icon…
https://youtu.be/LCwCYnobewQ
Watch from 7:30min.
https://wow.zamimg.com/images/wow/icons/large/ability_rogue_deadlymomentum.jpg
Seriously why couldn’t we use this? Why do mobs have this and not us?
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Yep I hate most of the new animations except for our summoning portal. Demonbolt and shadowbolt particularly used to look so good and unique.
Anybody remember the old incinerate from TBC-WoD?? It used to be a giant wave of flame that would slither towards the target, and now it looks horrible, like a fuse being lit. The new chaos bolt is alright, although I will never understand why they got rid of the way it used to arc towards the target. It was so iconic.
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Honestly, there are countless mobs in WoW that have absolutely AMAZING animations that would fit perfect in sooooo many classes. This is even truer this xpac. However, blizz never implements these to classes because it would raise the standard too high. Raising the standard would make them have to work to make animations better.
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I think you are 100% correct, if they start doing that then they’ll have to update all classes, so as lazy as they are, why make more work for themselves.
It’s a sad truth and the consumers just suffer 
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