Power word shield 2005 animation effect

One of my main old inquiry never answered and addressed by Blizzard was the spell animation effect from Power Word Shield. We have had the same since Classic, and still never had any animation rework from it. We had, in legion, many spell animations reworked ,unfortunately power word shield was left alone :frowning_face:

During Legion, the spell Clarity of Will ,which had a great visual spell animation effect ( at least better than the original Power word shield), was removed from the game a while after without replacing the visual aspect of Power word Shield for some reason.

Here is my main question : What if we could keep the Azerite animation effect from the Unwavering Ward (Guardian Shell) and implement it into Power Word Shield ?! It would be such a great spell animation instead of the Classic one and wouldn’t be too much unrelated. Now, I know the spell effect has azerite into it and I know that some might think it would be awkward to have a spell effect with azerite in it, but maybe Blizzard could work something around with it ?

Another option would simply be to add a glyph that changes the visual animation of Power word Shield to the Clarity of Will animation.

Let me know if I am the only one intrigued about the fact they never changed the spell animation from power word shield. What are your thoughts/ideas about it ?!

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100% agree. It makes me sad how good paladin bubbles look compared to our old af animation.

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Either make it high def like mage shields or spirit shell OR make it the divine aegis effect.

It’s super outdated

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Another thing I’ve wanted for ages was a shadow glyph for PW:S. It’s the one light oriented spell I CONSTANTLY use as shadow that bugs me the most. I’m specced for literally the opposite type of magic! At least PW:S would make shadow look and feel way more congruent.

If Pennance can go shadowy then why not PW:S? Of course why not give the normal effect an update while we’re at it?

Yeah, it’s weird. We have so many good looking shields in game now and yet the iconic shield class is still using outdated graphics.

I fully support animation updates!
When spells look neat, it “feels” better to play. I personally think our pw:s, flash heal, PoM, Guardian Angel, Pain Suppression need an animation upgrade. Even Smite! Yes Smite. Arcane Blast has more visual feedback than Smite nowadays . ugh

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