New-new Blood Boil animation...

[_Khasim_]

... is just terrible. Sorry if it's old news, but I just saw it on the 4.0.3a PTR, and seriously, it's awful. Even the first animation was better.
Here's a SS (while not hitting anything):


EDIT: Update #1, SS while hitting defenseless penguins.


EDIT: Update #2, a video. Sorry for the crappy quality but it would take ages to upload with my crappy internet

[Vober]

That looks like crap..

[Vehemence]

Assume it's placeholder

[Schmittay]

Blood boil became orange? Ewww. The second version was bloody awesome.

[Deleted]

Well the "new" so not the "New New" BB effect(it just means the 4.0.1 till 4.0.3 Blood Boil) was just killing FPS...

[Nayami]

Lame, I love the one we have now

[Lightitup]

Looks like something a warrior would have. In my mind, Blood boil should be red since blood is red.....

[KassieDS]

I'll be happy with anything that isnt the current one. It makes my eyes hurt.

[Mesovr]

I'll be happy with anything that isnt the current one. It makes my eyes hurt.

Then its doing its job ok . Its BLOOD boil not kitty rainbows and ice boil.

[_Khasim_]

Then its doing its job ok . Its BLOOD boil not kitty rainbows and ice boil.

Then the first version was the most accurate. It actually looked like the blood of our enemies started to explode out of their blood vessels.
The second one looks like it was the Death Knight's blood that was exploding out of his/her body and damaging the enemies.
This version looks like someone stomped on an orange jelly.

[Voij]

Then its doing its job ok . Its BLOOD boil not kitty rainbows and ice boil.

It's BLOOD boil, not eyeball boil.

See what I did there?

[AetherMcLoud]

Then the first version was the most accurate. It actually looked like the blood of our enemies started to explode out of their blood vessels.
The second one looks like it was the Death Knight's blood that was exploding out of his/her body and damaging the enemies.
This version looks like someone stomped on an orange jelly.

This. While it was kinda hard to gauge the range of the very first blood boil animation it actually looked EXACTLY like what it said in the description. AFAIK the main reasoning behind giving it a new animation was so that DKs would be better able to see the range of influence when using it. And the 2nd animation looked awesome, but you couldn't click through it (you can click through holy nova and powerword barrier though so I supposed that should have been fixable) and it really looked like the DK was boiling and spilling his own blood.

This new one looks pretty much exactly like the old warrior shouts. It's pathetic really there's no blood and nothing boils and it's also on the ground.

Every beta patch I read just seems to suck more fun out of the DK (for me). And I'm not even talking about balance, just basic class feeling.

[BreakingBen83]

i personally think that the second one was the most epic looking but the first one really kinda showed what the spells sopposed to do: boil the blood of the enemies

[Morv]

well i was under the assumption that blood boil caused the enemies blood to boil, and not the DKs itself, so when i saw the new animation i was slightly confuzzled. perhaps the orange 'waves' are microwaves intended to boil the targets blood on impact?
a video would definitely help.

[Taan]

What was wrong with the original one. it was perfect

[kortin]

i think im gonna cry.

[HisDivineOrder]

First version looked appropriate, but was perhaps subtle. The old-new version was epic and obvious, but perhaps too "loud." This version doesn't look at all like what "blood boil" should be doing and is totally wrong. Let's hope it's a placeholder. I wish they'd go back to the original if this is the best they have.

[xeroxide]

same, if there's an issue with framerate, revert back to the original please, the one presented in the OP looks like crap.
or perhaps it could be triggered with spell effect levels (use the one we have now at higher effects - while using the original for those who can't handle high/max)

*edit*
actually, how about making it look something like this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZWAbkABMAg

[Zauber]

Every beta patch I read just seems to suck more fun out of the DK (for me). And I'm not even talking about balance, just basic class feeling.

Agree, well balance is just a balance, it will be fixed and tuned every patch, but somehow I just start to feel like a some bizzare warrior/druid hybrid interpretation on my DK

[arcon]

Whether or not this has been said, it looks a lot like the paladin Hammer of the Righteous or whatever their AoE thingy is.