This is so sick.
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I honestly dont expect any of the suggestions I made to ever be acknowledged, nor do I expect any visual overhauls either in the near future, but theres that shriveled pea-sized hope that the devs actually read this thread. The pea gains a new wrinkle with each new development build.
The new effects for new spells and abilities do look good from what Ive seen at the very least on Alpha.
That said, its still fun in a way to come up with examples and doodle in the effects to better communicate what I feel could be improved upon.
Thanks for keeping this thread alive folks. Appreciated.
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If Blizz was to actually update a lot of these outdated animations for DK, it would make the class so much more pleasing to play, despite the shortcomings of how it is designed. Keep it up Rulord. You have some amazing work.
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This needs to happen. 
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Just saw this post linked in the wow subreddit and wanted to say amazing. Just using different animations for spells is a great and pretty easy change for the better. All of your suggestions are top notch.
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Every time I use the Necromancer ultimate in ESO that turns my tank into a huge freaking skeleton and then come back and play my DK and see that āLichbornā still just summons the undead head of some classic Andy I get big sad.
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Itās about time that dk has a revamp, in gameplay and in custom. Our custom is a silly joke close to other Hero classes, as our classes being rooted in wotlk pattern designs.
Everytime I antimagicshell I feel in 2008.
Clawing shadow has no visual loveā¦
And as you have seen the list goes on and on.
Just give dks the custom relevance of dh and evokers, and for skill a rework like pally have been through.
And off course our pets need some love, and seen the warlock have a barber shop for pet is really painful 
Well, thanks for the amazing work Rulord!
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Iād like there to be a bit more āoomphā sound on the Festering Strike
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Unfortunately Festering Scythe looks pretty disappointing too and in the past other visuals that we thought would be placeholders have become permanent, so not holding out hope for an upgrade. Would be nice to see some effort going into this dated class.
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Had the chance to hop on beta, and as Chillpills pointed out, there has been absolutely no changes to our old abilities.
Yeah, I was testing out Festering Scythe, and I dont even notice when it even goes off. As you said, I dont have much hope for an actual graphic for this ability, considering Wraith Walk visuals was a placeholder since 2016.
I frankly dont think theyll update anything of our old kit for TWW release. The best we cant hope for is small changes near the end of the next expansion, if ever.
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Iāve been so interested in maining a Death Knight for TWW, have been playing around with them, excited about the class fantasy BUTā¦
With even more abilities/talents triggering glacial advance, itās horribly bland and outdated graphic is depressing seeing from my character and from other characters around the world.
Makes it feel as though there are a bunch of epic heroes, and then thereās an ice-themed Second Life character in to join the fight.
Thank you so much for the megapost and all the effort youāve put into it, itās so validating knowing Iām not the only one feeling the tension between what the experience of the class and fantasy could be and what itās been left at.
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Insanely high effort post. I agree with everything in it and wish it was longer. Cant believe I missed this when it was originally posted.
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I still cant directly link images, otherwise Id be editing the original post.
I agree. Blizzard has the tools and assets to spruce up a lot of our visuals, but just seemingly does not want to.
https://imgur.com/a/oUBvJLj
In this example for Arctic Assault, I used the spell effect from the Jaina fight, an explosive frost impact to show the impact of the weapon hitting the ground, and the ye-old frost strike effect because Narcissus cant produce weapon trails.
Theyd also have to make the frost trail segmented to make it interact better with sloped terrain.
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Hi, Iām Dreadmoore and I still approve of this message.
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Despite tons of feedback, including beta feedback, we are still stuck with such outdated visuals >_<
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Does anyone know why they changed Glacial Advanceās awesome animation to what we have before Legion?
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My guess is it was initially a place holder, but ran out of time and settled for what we have now.
The recent patch added two new character animations for Hunters (good for them), a simple upward shoot animation for both bow and gun styles, as well as some effect revamps. Hopefully it means that a visual overhaul for DKs are on the horizen, but Blizzards pipeline is so slow that theres no way to determine if or when well see anything within a reasonable time.
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still nothing after 4 years?
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Still nothing even after blizzard went to all the effort with other classes and their covenant abilities.
exceptā¦ DK still the same. even slappy hands did NOT get an update.
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i wish they remove that spell.i hate it since day one