I want my shadow bolt animation updated! I’m tired of playing lock and its animation cast of shadow bolt look like pathetic pixilated poof balls! Please shamen are getting what they want! WHY CANT YOU JUST LISTEN!! I’ve been crying on this platform for YEARS! The class is hard to play with the current animation!!
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Who needs defenses when you can one-shot a rogue with 5K Shadow bolts!?
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That animation IS the updated shadow bolt. Previous one was a shadow skull laughing.
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That was the best! They should use that but re-enhance it. The one we have now is garbage!
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warlocks have more issues than just visuals.
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That single animation makes the entire class suck?
Meanwhile in Destruction…
I’m forced to play destro because the other specs use shadow bolt and I can’t even play it. The original shadow bolt animation and sound is what made me fall in love with the warlock. Currently, I’m forced to play as if I were a fire mage in destro. Blizzard messed up the feel of warlocks since they changed it and it hasn’t been the same since. So yes. It’s ruining my class fantasy.
That’s what people call “drama for drama’s sake.” 
The current one is an improvement imo 
The current shadow bolt animation is too pixilated, bland and lacks any sort of real power when it hits an enemy. Not to mention it doesn’t fly through for air like it used to, it currently arcs and it looks weird.
Bring back the weird dragon head chaos bolt too.
Stop taking the weird out of my warlock.
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They could have updated the animation to that, a green dragon now would look so cool!
And that’s what is making the class suck, not other balance/mechanics issues or literally anything else? The entire class sucks because of a single animation and sound effect?
I’m going to disagree with that.
I can’t play the class because of it, so yes it sucks for me! I’m tired of playing destro (fire mage). Everything else I’m fine with. Send them the message to them I hope they see this. All they have to do is update that shadow bolt animation/sound bit. Guarantee you’ll see more locks being played.
Unironically the old shadow bolt animation was much better than what we have now, and the same goes for a LOT of spell and ability sounds.
Feral and spriest sounded 10x better before they got woosh and random scream sounds, retribution also sounded a lot better in Cata.
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I’m pretty sure fixing some of the mechanic/performance issues with the class and specs would get more people to play warlocks.
It’s not like the art team is the same as the balancing team. If a visual reason is why he won’t play one, I don’t blame him. It’s a video game, we all like and dislike certain things.
I’d like to see glyphs added to let us customize our spell visuals. The skull shadow bolt was way better.
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Well honestly I will always favor visuals over mechanics because it’s been 20 years and we still have mechanical problems sooo…. Yeah people will always want more. Either give us more robust sounds ( old crashing moon sound was awesome) and more meaty visuals ( New chaos bolt is pretty decent but that’s it) or old animation glyphs. 
edit: Old gun sound was also pretty nice, the new one sounds like a paintgun…
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Ngl that old model hit good. Wish there was a glyph for the old one.
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Sure, but the art-team and the class-dev team are probably separate … but on the chance they’re the same, it’d explain warlocks lackluster appeals for awhile now 
Personally I think warlocks should be given two customisation skins on both their abilities and their summons:
- Necromancy
and
- Void
The reason being:
As others along with myself have pointed out before – Warlocks were the ones who CREATED the first generation of death-knights and ultimately responsible for many the masses of undead in the first place.
For the void stuff: Warlocks have quite a lot of void or old-god transmog themes, with very little to show for it … They’re warlocks, they’re meant to be masters of the dark arts – Canonically, that’s not limited to just the fel …
It’d help compensate visuals for both specs of affliction (void) and demonology (necromancer) towards destro getting fel vibes.
Hence my thread made to bring about necromancer themes for warlocks 
https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/customisation-for-warlocks-the-og-necromancers/1788278
However the void would be a good addition too 
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