Just wanna throw a positive thread out there since I’m pretty excited about this.
I’m very hyped to see the improved visual on Ice strike buffed Frost shock, Crash Lightning and Lightning bolt specifically. Also so happy the impact sound for Ice strike is getting updated I actually hate the current one so much lol.
I think in the future I’d love to see maybe a Lava Lash update, right now it kinda just splatters a little lava, kind of hard to see. Would love it to match the name a bit more and be a big lash with lava attached to the whole swing if that makes sense.
Would also love to see Voltaic Blaze have an animation going from you to the target a bit more, kind of like the icon shows. A swirling magma+rock tornado looking thing going to each target would be so insane. I do like the current animation though it is good.
But thank you for updating stuff in 11.1. Lightning bolt and Crash Lightning both definitely needed it, hyped to see what was cooked up!
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How do I see these new animations? I’m looking on YouTube but I can’t find anything.
Not out yet, but should be today I think with the ptr releasing.
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I didn’t read your post properly, I understood that you had already seen the animations. sorry
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The new Ascendence animation looks amazing too, are y’all referring to the ancestor animations?
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Referring to the animations that I talked about in the post. 11.1 is bringing new animations for all of those abilities I listed.
And yeah the ascend forms look great. The fact we got 2 new forms was awesome, loved that. I swap back and forth lol.
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Lightning bolt should not have a travel time and looks too small and weak imo.
I like that its high quality now, but they should honestly just use the 7.3 unused one.
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Lightning Bolt: I like it. I’m actually a fan of the old school vanilla lightning bolt being a projectile and this new version looks pretty good. Subjective obviously.
Ghost Wolf: I cannot tell the difference. Not sure if I am just not looking close enough or it wasn’t implemented but I do not see any different in ghost wolf, with or without glyphs.
Crash Lightning: I like it. Gives you a ground slam animation now and the lightning looks good.
Ice Strike (sound): It’s fine. An improvement in my opinion.
Frostshock via ice strike proc: Sounds kind of electric-ey compared to the old one. I am still a fan of the vanilla frost shock noise and wish that could come back even as a glyph.
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Anybody willing to hop on and post a vid showing the new animations would be my hero.
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Lightning bolt is actually pretty similar to the ones the primalists use that everyone said they loved.
It’s a projectile once again, but now it’s sort of oblong and stretched a bit. And it moves quickly.
Plus your hands kind of arc, and your body as well when you’re casting.
Empowered frost shock is not too bad. It’s like a puff of snow.
Crash lighting is pretty neat. You sort of swing your weapons at the ground and then it snakes through the ground to your targets. Sort of like a ground hugging chain lightning. It looks super cool on a dwarf.
Id record them but I can’t … lol.
Edit: another change, when you have 10 stacks of MSW now, it shows a new indicator above your head (the one that elemental gets for earth shock) and when you cast lightning bolt an additional bolt also comes from the sky onto the target.
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Would also love if someone could record them and post them here or upload to YouTube or something. All good if nobody can though can always check later
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Would if i could man… can’t figure it out on my windows pc which the only one i have the ptr installed on atm lol.
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Crash lightning: https: //streamable. com/6jgdvd
Lightning bolt (with elemental mastery procs): https: //streamable. com/irj26g
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Oh they cooked so hard. I love both of those, and I love the sound effects of both of them. Though lightning bolt sound effect could use a little more oomph behind it, but I love the projectile animation that looks fantastic.
Crash lighting is perfect. Jumping up and slamming the ground with weapons, the sound effect, the lightning it’s all really awesome.
Thank you very much for the links
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Update: PTR had my graphics at 3 instead of 8, it looks much better at 8 lol
Still not sure about the travel time but curious to see what happens over the course of PTR
Not a fan of it functionally. Testing it out its deff affecting grandpa’s casting spell since it’s spell hit not spell cast.
But looks wise it looks banging.
Yeah I mean, functionally instant hit is preferred but it used to be a projectile, so I’m not totally opposed to it becuase it looks cool and I used to be ok with it back in the day 
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I’m okay with the travel time for us but not for grandpas ideally. It should be spell cast for them I think personally if that’s even possible to do.
The look is definitely sick though. Honestly exceeded my expectations for it. I had the highest expectations for Crash lightning and those were also exceeded, the jump into the smash is so cool.
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If they made it faster then that would largely fix it and it would look sick af with how beefy the animation is.
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That makes sense to me. Matches with the theme of the ability too, when I think of Lightning bolt I definitely think of a big beefy fast bolt of lightning.