Look at the combat visuals and sounds and tell me that ain’t way better than what we currently have. Old Divine Storm, Exorcism, Final Verdict…
Feels like the old art/sound designers knew what made Paladins tick more than the current ones.
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agree. specialy divine storm looks so much better back then.
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Inb4: Trolls come in here and say that our new visuals are better. (Happened to me in GD just the other day.)
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I agree. Divine Storm rework was needed in Legion because of Artifact traits that made us spam it. We lost it all in BFA and on its own it doesn’t look so good anymore. The animation needs to be longer lasting.
Final Verdict also had great forward hitting animation. Current Templar Verdict light up your back, and I don’t notice it, because I look at my target.
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the animation is just bad. Looks silly to me. Its called divine storm , a storm wirlwind combo without PLZ any hammer animation.
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Agreed. Would love to have the old animations back.
Judgment had the hammer from the sky animation for as long as I can remember, why change it?? I barely even see it now when fighting in melee. Not to mention how much more thematic it is to judge your target from above.
Divine Storm’s old animation was beautiful, no idea why they replaced it with the current bland version.
Exorcism, simple but effective and that sound effect…
Hammer of Wrath’s lightning hammer, another classic.
Edit: TBH I also miss our old wings.
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i miss the old wings too. the current once look so bad. and the glpyh only allows the 4 wing vers. just silly
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Blizzard’s problem is that they just try too hard and go too overboard with this stuff.
I was perfectly content with the OG TV - The mortal strike animation with the edited sound of steel scraping against steel, plus a few yellow cleave marks flying out. Just felt more meaningful to me. Now I feel like every ability is just a bunch of shxt flying all over the place now while we spin around in circles.
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Glyphs.
I’m a big supporter of glyphs.
This includes glyphs for bringing back specific animations, effects, and even old spells to a degree (Exorcism’s animation and sounds instead of Blade of Justice).
They’re purely cosmetic, so why not?
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Great basis for any kind of discussion. “My opinion is the only one that matters/is right.”
I didn’t really like the old DS nor do I like the new one.
Old DS had hammers, too.
The only thing about the new animations that I don’t like is Judgment. The travel time and the cringy sound it makes.
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i know it had hammers too but at this point i cant see any more hammers. Tbh i found the hammers in the old animation also missplaced but still, its much better than what it is now.
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This. There is such a potential of animation and sound effect swapping in glyphs. Let us use glyphs to get old animations back, please.
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I would love how Judgement use to look back and also DS. I hate how it looks now. I wish we could Glyph TV to look like Final Verdict
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Indeed, the mop turning animation for templar’s verdict with the cataclysm sound was amazing.
Templar’s verdict shouldnt pop wings in your back, just make a good fx, maybe make our weapon glow with holy power and then mop turning swing animation with the target receving a “verdict” so it could be holy chains growing on the target with hammers turning around the target
Final Verdict animation unused is a damn crime.
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I don’t mind the new animations, but I think Blizz needs to start adding in glyphs for those that want old animations back. It would allow for alot more customization for players to make their character look how they want during combat. This is true for alot of specs in the game currently.
And yes, I would love at the least to get a glyph to get back old judgement. If I wanted to throw hammers at people, I’d play a warrior.
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I miss Divine Storm but some of the new animations I enjoy. I like opening a book as I do some of my spells, that’s fun. I do miss the old wings.
Glyphs would be nice. I’m sad and a little upset that they completely gutted that profession and made it virtually useless.
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It’s funny that something as simple as a reused warrior slam animation + a golden hammer ended up being such a good ability. I really miss it.
It’s like they come up with great designs and ideas for things and then just haul it all to the dump.
TV just looks like another crusader strike swing to me now
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Crusader Strike (at least on my character) is a golf swing and Templar’s Verdict is a baseball bat swing.
It’s all bizarre.
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even as holy spec i still like the old ret paladin visuals
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an entire vault of animated two handed weapon strikes from all kinds of media over the last 50 years and Blizzard’s like “nah, golf swing it is.”
Pfft, it’s as if they are DARING you to play something else that less technically sound but has better aesthetics.
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