So many of the old animations & sound effects were just plain better, such as Exorcism, Divine Storm & Penance. Others were just more simple and elegant (such as Prayer of Healing). I would love to see glyph options for the old animations to return. Blizzard, please make this happen. 
Which animations would you like to see return?
EDIT: Adding in a list of a full list of requests from the community
Druid
Hunter
Mage
Paladin
- Exorcism (instead of Blade of Justice)
- Divine Storm
- Penance
- Beacon of Light (sound only)
Priest
Shaman
- Lightning Bolt
- Old Ghost Wolf Form
- Winfury Weapon
- Old “Chunky” Totems
Warlock
- Chaos Bolt
- Shadow Bolt
- Incinerate
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Most Warlock spells looked better.
Chaos Bolt and its draconic/demonic head.
Shadow Bolt and its skull.
Incinerate used to be “buffy” and full, making it feel quite powerful, while nowadays it’s simply “crappy snake fire”.
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The incinerate animation is honestly one of the reasons I’ve never gotten into destro.
I did love the old look of Chaos bolt. I even had a warlock to level in MoP because I thought the animations were way cooler than mage at the time. I still do have the warlock, but I kind of chicken out because I don’t want people to think I’m fotm rerolling 
Beacon of Light - just the sound, the new animation is great
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I miss green wrath as well
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Lightning bolt as the little ball with the lighting tail following after it was so nice… Good times <3
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I have a mighty need…a need for MoP stampede!
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Wrath is probably my go to when I think old spells. I just don’t get the lunar/solar theme on a nature class. There were so many ways to go and we get astral.
I liked the old druid forms… The nelf feral cat was so cool o_o also cheetah
ik classic is there but… i dont wana
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Old Shadowbolt!!!
Either the original with skull inside it or the glyphed one that split into 3 bolts.
Also, not a Glyph just an old spell but, Malefic Grasp. I loved the feedback and feeling of draining something down with that beautiful splayed out magenta coil of death.
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Old Shaman Ghost Wolf Form
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I kinda miss the big ol’ orb of lightning for Shamans back in Ye Olden Times
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Windfury too.
It’s like the design went from “show what’s happening” to “let’s make everything invisible or too small to be seen”.
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Yeah, seeing that tornado was kinda fun. I also miss the snake totem for the fire totem.
Heck I miss that little fire totem.
Totens used to be clunky, but instead of making them flexible, devs straight out removed them.
There were so many. I think miss them all.
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I do miss the fire shooting one, if they could implement it into a rotation that makes sense, that’d be cool, but I couldn’t figure out how it would.
I could do without having to drop SO MANY totems, especially if you have multiple Shamans with the same totems. I like Windfury and it helps others as well.
Searing Totem, was it? I remember the problem was some moving out of range and line of sight. Removing it from global, definitely would help. Maybe have it “teleport” to a place near the Shaman everytime they move out of range. Or multiple charges, so multiple totens can be place in different places.
I think the amount is a good thing. They don’t have to be useable at all times. Maybe some totems could be passive, like, being summoned through other abilities.
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The glyph system is woefully underutilised and I’m all for more customisation.
That being said did people really like old Shadow bolt? New lightning bolt is bland and terrible looking, I get that; but Shadow bolt?
To me the skull was goofy and really dumb looking. At least now it looks like what it’s supposed to, a bolt of shadow magic.
Each to their own I guess
