Hunter Visual Effects: In Need of Some Love?

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Post Title: “Hunter Visual Effects: In Need of Some Love?”

Seeking to change my constant choice from “melee” to “ranged,” I decided to try the hunter. Although I enjoyed it a lot, especially the ease with which I can attack from a distance while moving (unlike casting as with a warlock), I was struck by the lack of visual effects. It’s very lacking in what you see when attacking, compared to the mage or warlock, and even compared to the shaman or priest. All casters have spectacular visual effects, yet the hunter is missing that. It needs a bit of visual love.

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Yeah, it does seem like hunter needs some help in that department. Though wind arrows and big red pets are a staple, a lot of the animations are outdated. Idk what could be done though, considering that more then anything, how many ways can we animation shooting a gun or pulling the bowstring/ swinging the spear?

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  • Have rapid fire shoot out bright orange tracer rounds as they ricochet around.
  • Have Aimed Shot wind up an increasing glow and streak across the map with a big flash on hit
  • Have Wailing Arrow leave a big black shadowy smoke trail behind it and disperse with a black cloud on impact
  • Have wind arrows leave a spiralling white streak behind them
  • Have explosive shot be a big burning arrow with a smoke trail behind it and have the explosion be a firey shockwave circle that shoots out from the target
  • Make volley arch out from the hunter and spread in the air or fire overhead and explode like a cluster bomb raining down arrows
  • Give Arcane shot a white glow that leaves a sparkled trail behind it and a mini arcane explosion effect on impact
  • Make multishot show a little crosshair on every target its going to hit that flashes away with a small blood spurt on impact like a bunch of heat-seeking arrows
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Survival has one really dumb animation and it’s kill command. It feels really dumb to be up in melee and then just stick your weapon straight out and yell. I wish they just replaced kill command with the old flanking strike where you and your pet both did damage and if your target was targeting you it made your pet do more damage and threat otherwise your portion did more damage. Even sticking with kill command, it should just be a different animation cause sticking your weapon out while you’re up against the boss looks dumb, imo.

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Other games do it all the time. Why should we give blizzard a pass and accept mediocrity. Terrible mindset to have.

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Ah yes, asking a question is a terrible mindset. Thanks. Appreciate that. So show me then! Show me these animations, show me what can be done instead of hitting the gritty and just going down the its a terrible mindset to have,. Ok thanks boss for attacking me I love that.

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ok lets pretend you are right and no game has good archer animation (your not). should we be ok with that and the answer is no we should not we should expect better

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No no, you are not understanding me. I was under the impression that there are not good animations to work with for melee hunter atm, hence why I stated what i did. Since we are about to be in beta, it is unlikely that animations will change. Yes, I would like spicy new animations, will I get them? Idk. In fact, I dont even know what to expect so like if you wanna be a jerk about it then be a jerk but I have my thoughts about it and thats about what there is to it.

To humor you, and to honestly move this to a kinder and more constructive thread I looked up the individual animations that sylvannas has in her raid encounter and those would be something I could see(and they’d be UBER cool haha) but the issue with those is that they could encounter the same issue dragoon has in FF14: Animation Locking.

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I have had this exact same feeling so much. Because I flip between ret pally and bm hunter and when I go to bm it feels like someone turned my graphics card off.

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They really need to improve Dark Ranger visuals, it’s been a huge fantasy that many players have been wanting so bad to try and it feels just underwhelming.

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hunter is in dire need for a visual update across the board. there are classes that have facial animation with spells while hunter still has vanilla/tbc animation for most spells.

but blizz has no reason to update hunter visually b/c they are the most played class so clearly its not a issue so why waste resources on them if no one cares if they do or dont.

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Another dumb thing on SV, the scream on every MB at 5 stacks…

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It would be nice if they gave us new animations in regards to shooting a bow, crossbow or gun. I wonder how difficult it would be for them to convert/enable PC hunters to use the animations from Sylvanas in Sanctum of Domination.

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Different game, but magic archer in dd2 has some wonderful animations that would be awesome to have a wow visual equivalent to. Would make firing arrows boss.

Spear animations just need more visuals. Im thinking give sv moves visuals that briefly show an animal aspect on your character. Like say using raptor strike and a ghostly raptor silhouette shows on you or something. Or just make sv hunter the wow versions of Diablo 4’s spiritborn class lol