Really veering off topic with this ish about how Affliction plays vs live and there are plenty of other threads for that discussion.
Shadow Bolt is long overdue for either an animation redesign, or a reversion to its original vanilla animation which is mostly still used by even newly added npcs because it is superior to that goofy animation it got in late Cata. I do hope to see it updated, but have it draw inspiration from its original animation.
Anyway to fix some misinformation in this thread:
- Shadow Bolt's animation was updated in 4.3
- Rain of Fire was updated in 3.1
- Soulfire was updated in 3.0 and later 5.0
- Incinerate was updated in 6.0
All our animations are dated compared to other casters, but at least Destro is getting a full animation makeover. I do imagine they'll continue with the other two specs as well.