Chaos bolt, incinerate and rain of fire all got new animations. How about shadow bolt? Especially since in BFA it'll be the filler for two specs.
Chaos bolt, incinerate and rain of fire all got new animations. How about shadow bolt? Especially since in BFA it'll be the filler for two specs.
nah they'll probably leave it with the old animation and update everything else. /sarcasm
..and so he left, with terrible power in shaking hands.
Didn't it just get the laughing skull animation?
Our affliction dots also need some proper effects.
And class specific casting gestures please.
We did get a new animation, then it was reverted for whatever reason. I assume they are either working on editing it and readding it or making a new one.
It's not like anyone will play the current affliction so why bother?
Might as well put all the effort into the specs that actually work.
I think they should take Thalkiel's consumption and make it our new shadow bolt animation. Looks cool enough, and we're losing that ability soon.
Should give shadowbolt to demo, and bring back malefic grasp animation for affliction.
As the other guy said, afflictions losing most of what makes it so good currently.
To add to what he said, the artifact for Aff is better than most others too. So they are taking a larger hit losing it. A lot of people simply gained flat dmg/some passive gold trait buffs, but aff had a ton of it's aoe (soul flame) and tons of ST damage inside those traits, and they were all essentially double everyone else.
A good way to see how poorly affliction is doing on alpha is to look at the "damage aura" each spec has. Most people have a -10~-20% aura. Aff has a +32%. Really shows how powerful it's artifact was.
Except stuff was left alone...Warlock had to wait till BfA to even get any updates while every other class got some updates...and those updates were only to Destruction spells pretty much. They finally updated Demo...but none of the old spells have been updated visually and poor Affliction is kinda forgot about at the moment.
http://bfa.wowhead.com/dressing-room...U8tR8HYg8tR87m
Animation: "LocSpellPrecastBoth"
Apparently there was a new animation, but it was reverted, I can't find it anywhere though.
Affliction is indeed boring AF on Alpha, all decisionmaking is removed unless you play Deathbolt and then your decision is "when do I cast Deathbolt".
However Demo will also use SB though, and that's a lot of fun to play.