I actually think the old lava burst animation looks newer and more like actual lava, a deep red color with chunks in it. The new lava burst on Ptr looks very 2006-2007 and visually is like a spiral of orange soda. I’m shooting Crush out of my hands now instead of chunky lava balls. I wish there was a glyph to keep the old lava burst tbh.
What do you guys think?
Glyph–yes.
I sort of like it … I think it could use a little more red and less orange though.
It looks more cartoony which sort of fits the game.
I would appreciate a glyph to go back if I desired to …
I don’t hate it, but I’m honestly not sure if I prefer it over the current one or not. I’m not a big fan of current lava burst, there is a reason its nickname is meatball.
I just wish the new one had more magma or earthy chunks to it. It just looks very generic fire spell.
I mean lava does look pretty orange. It looks like Hawaiian ‘A’a lava.
I just hope they also update lightning bolt as it still looks sorta old … it’s been since legion. That’s when they updated lava burst so maybe that’s coming …
Lightning bolt really needs an update. The one we have now looks very 2D and squiggly like a ramen noodle. The sethrek or whatever those snake people from BFA were called had baller lightning effects!
I think it looks alright, but I was hoping more for a Lightning Bolt animation change than a Lava Burst one. Indifferent overall, guess it does look more modern.
Still the proposed animation changes all the way back in BFA…
Yeah, new lightning was more important to me as well. I thought lava burst looked fine and I also like the watery healing spells.
In terms of lava, I guess there’s quite a bit of variation looking at pictures on Google Images. It can be more “fluid” or more “chunky”, more red or more orange or usually a reddish-orange mixture. It’s more of the texture. I feel like with more modern graphics, the texture could be better.
Oh did they change the healing spells as well?
I’ve personally always been a fan of the more “simple” art style Warcraft has had traditionally. It’s better on performance and it has a certain uniqueness
I like the new one especially the glow, i wish it was larger and faster though like the old one
It’d be a neat side effect if it put globs of lava on the ground as it flew by …
It actually makes me hate fire builds less. I never realized it before but I think part of the reason I didn’t like fire builds was because of the animation … nice to have something new …
I think this is why I can’t enjoy PvP, especially arena that much anymore. There’s way too much going on on the screen. A thousand icons, a thousand pets, animations that are very flashy. It’s like I’m at an EDM show. Playing a healer, I can’t even make out what’s happening on the field.
I play pretty much with high res textures. Max particles, and medium view distance and pretty much everything else on low lol.
I like the new graphics, I want to keep the old animation.