Agreed. At least the warlord's challenge gun has some fancy animation... These guns are so meh. Reading the artifact talents its looks like there will be some kind of electricity bolt animation at least. Also the summon exotic beast ability may make up for the lackluster weapon models. I may have misread it, but 2 pets out at once? Bad. Ass.
TL;DR.
Basically, the Hunter got the shaft on animation and spell effects. There is literally nothing cool or astounding like some of the other classes. There is no color, there is no spell effects, there is no light.
We get it. "Hunter doesn't Hunt with bright lights." So we stay in the dark hidden. Who needs to stay in the dark hidden when you're fighting a raid boss that CLEARLY knows you're there.
Fucking stupid models look like shit meanwhile the vast majority get some whoopity dupity particle awesome.
Shafted.
I was a Death's Demise.
Those were the good old days.