These animations are just awesome, how on earth can you guys prefer the ones we had at the time? one of the things that i never undertood, and i will never understand coming from the shaman community
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This is a bizarre post to make this long after the event. Whenever something changes, no matter how positive the change, there will be detractors. Thats human nature.
thats the perfect definition of exception, like those downvotes you see on those videos with high sucess likes.
but guess what, those animations were not put into the game which means those were not exceptions, were the rule…and honestly i was looking at the time, and i didnt saw that manifestation against it anywhere, idk where the hell blizzard though it wasnt going to be a good implementation
So like…we have those animations now. Are you under the impression that we still have vanilla casting animations?
but we dont have those animations now… the shaman chain lightning its still the old one, and lightning bolt it received some secret updates into its animation (because wowhead never notified that, i discovered simple by playing with time) but its still not the same you see in the video
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There are so many lightning spells in the game and I think my least favourite animation is the one used for lightning bolt.
I really hope they upgrade it. At least to something that is 3D
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That’s not a Horde Shaman so it doesn’t matter
Bumping for visibility, the lightning animations here are loved by many and should be added back as a glyph or made default with a glyph to return to old visuals
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absolutely shameless bump, lightning bolt needs an update
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Bumping for great justice and visibility
Bumping cause I love lightning.
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Yes and then there were loud morons who made it a one person crusade to bump their meaningless posts multiple times a day until they got their way and screwed over the rest of us. Never will understand the reason Shamans have to keep an outdated Chain Lightning spell effect.
Classic is —>
The current animation would look better if it was an arc from the sky, like how lightning actually works in nature.
Chain lighting looks pretty neat tho
The spell effects elemental shamans have currently are not the same spell effects they had when Blizzard wanted to implement the ones in the video.
Instead they gave shamans the low quality version of the proposed spell effects just to spite shamans for not wanting the new shiny toy (that many people at the time thought looked worse than the original old lightning).
I personally dislike the gaming industries trend on current-gen lightning effects being fast, white and flashy instead of the old slow/blue pulsing effects.
Recently PoE changed the spell graphics of their lightning skills to do a similar thing that WoW tried to do and many people dislike it because it’s flashy visual clutter that obfuscates gameplay and hurts peoples eyes (just like real lightning!).
i watched it just now and well, i can see how those effects on screen can make it you confused to what is going on.
but hurting people eyes in the process, wow young people these days just acting like old bags, its stupid personally
Actually lightning we see from nature comes from the ground and goes up. The clouds will send negative “streams” (that the human eye can’t see) to the ground which usually will connect to a positive charge and then shoot up (the lightning that we see)
Yeah, but my point was in game it comes out of US, which is a whole lot different than it looks in real life. Thanks tho 
Yes and my point is that a graphic that would shock the enemy (being the positive charge) and then lighting flying out of them into a cloud above them would be bad azz. I’m so terribly sorry you took this offensively. Though I must admit I’m a fan of the original vanilla one as well 
I’m not offended I just felt you missed my point.
I think that would be a great spell animation for earth shock! I’d really like more spells to feel like they’re coming from weather or the sky.
Kinda how you pull lava from the ground with lava burst. It just makes sense.
WoW… Shaman already have the best visuals and sound effects imo, and this would make them even better! The thunder visuals look so nice…