Patch 7.3 New Combat Animations: It’s Magic!

[dranlord]

maybe the QQing about things they dont like ? maybe some day, after playing 8 years or so, you really loved this new anims comin with 7.3. and then, in 2025, they change it to somewhat completely different. lets assume you dont like it. are you sure you dont write this into a forum that is used for stuff like that ?

sorry i been playing for 10 years already. And this animations change are welcomes. The game animation are super old. What you feel is call nostalgia, is a common disease this days on the internet.

I can actually see how much effor they put to generate different animations base on classes that make more sense that race animations.

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Wow, calm down people, animations are good. Much better than the shitty animations since vanilla. Also for the ppl who say that melee animations suck they are retarded. Just fucking quit the game already if nothing pleases you. Blizzard clearly never hits the mark with negative emos like you all.

QQ is free on forums so they just QQ about any little change the game get.

[Queen of Hamsters]

- Blizzard adds animations where previously the same casting movements were used for everything
- Players bitch and moan about how the old animations are iconic..

Yeah... MMO-C in a nutshell, you'd be excused for believing that this website is a subforum for Tumblr where the triggered, Negative Nates thrive...

[Cows For Life]

Why do people always insist on wanting caster animations to use weapons? They aren't a warrior that needs a weapon to attack, their power comes from within. An unarmed mage can still cast a spell.

Never seen Lord of the Rings have you?

[Triptych]

Looks great.

I play exclusively Dwarves these days, so it'll be awesome to have class-specific animations. Instead of all my dwarves using the same motions and gestures, my dwarf frost mage will be different to my dwarf warlock and my dwarf priest and my dwarf shaman. Fantastic, thanks Blizz!

[Blazur]

Overall though, I'm happy that they didn't force weapons to be incorporated into most casting animations (keeping them to artifact weapon abilities).

Have you tested this with artifact abilitys on the ptr? I'm still trying to figure out if the artifact ability's still bring the weapon to the casters hand with the new casting animations or not. Would be a huge shame if they took it out.

[Aeula]

I don't remember that face having red eyes for orcs... I'd have chosen it for my shaman if it did.

[Lady Velvet]

Kinda miss when your race determined your casting animation instead of this "one-size fit all" new animations though

[Zookz25]

Have you tested this with artifact abilitys on the ptr? I'm still trying to figure out if the artifact ability's still bring the weapon to the casters hand with the new casting animations or not. Would be a huge shame if they took it out.

Haven't tested it, but I doubt they would have removed them. I think it's sad that some (namely the shadow priest's artifact ability) were designed to use their weapon, but never did.

Kinda miss when your race determined your casting animation instead of this "one-size fit all" new animations though

Filler spells still use the racial casting animation. Depending on how often your class spams their filler, you'll get varying amounts of usage.

[Jademist]

Why do people always insist on wanting caster animations to use weapons? They aren't a warrior that needs a weapon to attack, their power comes from within. An unarmed mage can still cast a spell.

FFXIV does a good job with casters casting with weapons imo.

[Zookz25]

FFXIV does a good job with casters casting with weapons imo.

Final Fantasy games do a good job with any kind of spell. lol

I still feel like it doesn't really fit WoW outside of special cases such as artifact weapons, or if the class fantasy was based around the weapon or style of fighting, like monks using their fists instead of their weapons. Or how frost DKs use their runeblade to throw out Howling Blast or Blood Boil; it fits the class and what their weapon means to them.

[tristannarutofan]

Why do people always insist on wanting caster animations to use weapons? They aren't a warrior that needs a weapon to attack, their power comes from within. An unarmed mage can still cast a spell.

Are you serious? Every mage and priest in media casts with a wand or staff. Gandalf, everyone in harry potter, raistlin harry dresden

[Requimortem]

It's great seeing Warlocks getting shafted again. I mean, when the expansion is all about demons and the Burning Legion, why give any attention to the one class that utilizes them?

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Are you serious? Every mage and priest in media casts with a wand or staff. Gandalf, everyone in harry potter, raistlin harry dresden

Yet Gandalf almost never used his staff and characters were able to cast magic without using a wand in Harry Potter.

[Kithelle]

Not surprising the Warlock hating Blizzard completely left them out of the update.

[Jademist]

Not surprising the Warlock hating Blizzard completely left them out of the update.

Holy Paladins didn't get any updates either. I believe they said they're still working on those.

[Hell-Nicø]

All that stuff is nice and all, but how about they gave us casting animation with the character actually using his weapon?

[Zephre]

Kinda miss when your race determined your casting animation instead of this "one-size fit all" new animations though

Yeah I agree, apparently it'll still apply to filler spells but I wonder how long that'll last for.

[Requimortem]

Holy Paladins didn't get any updates either. I believe they said they're still working on those.

Unlike Holy Paladins, Warlocks have been screwed over since the moment Warlords of Draenor arrived and it's only gotten dramatically worse since then. If any class is deserving of new animations, it's Warlocks.

[Krille]

All i see in this thread are people that have a hard time handling change. If you thought caster animations of 2005 would last forever then i dunno what to tell you.

Remember change is always inevitable, i bet alot of you cried when hunters lost mana and for no other reason that "it's not the old hunter". The majority of you havent even tried the animations yet and are already saying they're shit.

[Ryzek]

These look awesome.

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Did I miss something? Do monks get new animations too, or are they "new enough"?