New shadow bolt animation?

[Coffeh]

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.

[Baconeggcheese]

nah they'll probably leave it with the old animation and update everything else. /sarcasm

[Deleted]

Didn't it just get the laughing skull animation?

[Exodeus]

Our affliction dots also need some proper effects.
And class specific casting gestures please.

[Coffeh]

nah they'll probably leave it with the old animation and update everything else. /sarcasm

I mean...you realize until it's updated it's not updated right? Why assume it will be?

[Baconeggcheese]

I mean...you realize until it's updated it's not updated right? Why assume it will be?

When they updated all the other specs in the game afaik nothing was left alone. Why would you assume this would be?

And further, this is mmoc, so why ask here as if someone here would have an answer?

[Coffeh]

When they updated all the other specs in the game afaik nothing was left alone. Why would you assume this would be?

And further, this is mmoc, so why ask here as if someone here would have an answer?

You're right. They really should close down the forums since no Blizzard employee is here to provide answers. My bad.

[Lucrece]

You're right. They really should close down the forums since no Blizzard employee is here to provide answers. My bad.

Well, he is right.

Why make a question that the only person qualified to answer won't be here to respond to?

The thread would be more useful if it abstained to simply commenting on desires for animations.

[Coffeh]

Well, he is right.

Why make a question that the only person qualified to answer won't be here to respond to?

The thread would be more useful if it abstained to simply commenting on desires for animations.

Fair enough.

So...I really hope we got a new shadow bolt animation. The old one is kind of worn and tired. I feel like they could do something really cool with some kind of skull animation.

[Echoherb]

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.

[Aggrophobic]

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.

[Echoherb]

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.

What are you even talking about? Affliction is one of the most played specs at the moment, and the bfa changes are generally seen as positive so far in the alpha.

[Aggrophobic]

What are you even talking about? Affliction is one of the most played specs at the moment, and the bfa changes are generally seen as positive so far in the alpha.

What changes are possitive? Removing the survivability, movement, most AOE and all burst AOE? Not one change has a positive impact on the spec.
What spec is most played now hardly matters when they are absolutely gutting the spec in a few month time.

[Lucrece]

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.

[Keltas]

What are you even talking about? Affliction is one of the most played specs at the moment, and the bfa changes are generally seen as positive so far in the alpha.

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.

[Magistrate]

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.

It's still really early in development. Maybe let them have more time to develop the alpha before conclusions are jumped to.

[Halwyn]

Add a few strokes to the old animation from the Shadowbolt Glyph (the one that launched three bolts instead of one), and I think that will do nicely

[Kithelle]

When they updated all the other specs in the game afaik nothing was left alone. Why would you assume this would be?

And further, this is mmoc, so why ask here as if someone here would have an answer?

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.

[Amnaught]

O
And class specific casting gestures please.

http://bfa.wowhead.com/dressing-room...U8tR8HYg8tR87m

Animation: "LocSpellPrecastBoth"

[Inshabel]

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.