Vanilla spells had better animations than retail

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I am playing BC at this moment and I can´t believe that most of the spells back in BC look much better and have better animations than most of the retail spells.
How a present game can be degradated like that?

I am going to summarize what spells look better in retail and what look better in classic

Better in classic:
-Incinerate
-Shadow Bolt
-Arcane blast
-Arcane barrage
-Wrath (the electric green ball used to look and sound way better)
-Typhon
-Frost bolt
-Fire ball
-Pyroblast
-Soul fire
-Gun sounds
-Smite (god, It is impresive how good looks in classic, now it is so ugly and anemic)
-Almost all priest’s heals
-Starsurge

Better in retail
-Drain life
-Chaos bolt
-Arcane misiles (without the new sound)
-Arcane explosion
-Holy nova
-Lighting bolt
-StarFire
-Demon bolt

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I can’t say I’ve been zoomed in far enough to witness an animation in a decade. Seems like a non issue.

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Shadow bolt also looked better back then

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Old bladestorm= https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribbon_(rhythmic_gymnastics)

Yeah I know its a wrath ability but still in the era of vanilla graphics.

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Much better now it looks like a piece of pink rainbow

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I’d say a few spells got WORSE after the update, but not the majority.

IMO, the ones that got worse:

  • Penance (this one in particular, got butchered)
  • Arcane Barrage
  • Incinerate
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I’ve hated the new shadowbolt animation and sound for so long now. It’s absolutely awful and looks like a pink frostbolt, but slower.

The sound and character animation on new arcane explosion is also so bad. Your char looks like it’s taking a power poop and makes a shart sound.

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Classic shadowbolt is epic.

But I also think it’s partially combat. Each shadowbolt cost mana, hit for tons and casted long. Whereas new shadowbolt is a filter, and one of many at that. It’d be more fair to compare it to chaos bolt. Somewhat. Not really, but you know what I mean.

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hard disagree with both of these

honestly cant remember the others

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I miss judgment depicting different weapons with glyphs

Spell animations just went downwards after glyphs got scrapped imo

Still pissed about the stupid holy light book they forced onto every race. I hate that stupid book bring back old holy light

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YOU forgot chain lightning and its sound

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I wish they allowed using these animations via glyphs

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Do I even need to say anything about Stampede and the gun animations?

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I miss those days where fillers used to hit like a truck. Now most of them do nothing

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I loved old spell effects. I actually despise the new Warlock neon paint splatters. And I hate Paladin spell effects now.

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This shift away from fillers and into cooldowns was the result of them wanting “big” buttons to feel good.
Now bigly damage for 10-20 seconds, then wet noodle until the cooldowns is back up

Big cooldowns are fun, but I think that some power needs to go back into basic abilities

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I wish glyphs.

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So much customization potential in these.

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I dont understand why blizzard does not bring old animations through glyphs for better spell customization. I mean… the design has been made they just need to implement it.
So much lost potential

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