It would be super cool to have Glyphs that gave the visual of other elements to Lava Burst.
Lava Burst without a glyph is the fire element. (Okay, it’s molten earth, but it has an aesthetic reminiscent of fire.)
So, it would be interesting to have glyphs that transformed Lava Burst into a solid rock; it would be a lot of fun to spam boulders on enemies’ faces.
Or perhaps something involving lightning. Like Lava Burst have a visual and sound similar to the old Lightning Bolt (As it was on Vanilla to MoP, i think), but bigger.
These details would make the elemental shaman gameplay much more (visually) appealing, at least, for me.
What do you think? Do you also think that something like this would be interesting?
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Kinda partial to racial themed glyphs that tweaked the casting animations slightly.
I.E: Goblin Lava Burst would be either a big ol bomb that goes kaboomies on the target or a Sapper Keg tossed either or, but both with the animation of the goblin lighting a fuse before tossing out the explosive.
DI/Dwarf could be tossing a molten forge at the target… etc.
Yea I’ve always wanted to be able to be a full lightning shaman, or a full lava shaman. But I’m always stuck with a mix of elemental abilities.
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Blizzard has decided recently that they hate glyphs and don’t want to do them anymore.
Their stated reasoning is “pvpers won’t recognize abilities if they look different” so we can’t have nice things.
I remain unconvinced.
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How many times have they used that minigame as a way to just stop doing stuff or removing things
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IMO a pretty lazy excuse when so much else is “restricted to PvP only” in the game.
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Oh that would be cool as hell.
Yep. Be pretty simple to just have glyphs not work in ranked pvp content.
Which is why I remain unconvinced.
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I think about this each time we have volcanic affix, especially with a bad camera angle
This is probably the same “reasons/thinking” why they removed the unique casting animations each race had among all the other classes/specs during WoD PrePatch.
The issue is Lava Burst for Enhancement Shamans is Elemental Blast, it’ll have to change that.
I just want more Shaman glyphs for different forms for our Spirit Wolf form, right now I use the ZM Lupine one because it fits the Draenei aesthetic IMHO.
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Still want a “holographic” MechanoWolf for a form as well. My poor gobisham uses ZM Vulpine. Would use Lupine but that tail animation is… ugh lol.
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They should’ve just let shamans select their Night Fae soulshape to use as ghost wolf form.
Zero extra work on Blizzard’s part, makes all of the work they already did on Soulshapes less pointless now that we’re out of SL, and gives shamans a metric ton of options. Everybody wins.
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They spent a whole expansion making rad shaman-themed spells and abilities and instead of giving them to players, they handed them off to the most forgettable set of mooks yet.
The Primalists do be look’n fresh tho. Too bad players can’t get on their level.
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