BUG on DK Obliterate spell animation

[Caïrn-dalaran]

I’m posting this because I’m honestly at my wit’s end. I’ve submitted multiple bug reports in-game and haven’t received any response from Blizzard.

There’s a persistent animation bug with the Obliterate spell for Death Knights (and Warriors as well with execute) on certain races. The animation is completely out of sync — no sound or impact effects when the ability hits and the damage numbers are delayed.

From what I’ve been able to document, the issue affects:

Night Elf females

Tauren

Gnomes

Vulpera

Nightborne

Kul Tirans

The bug seems to have started around patch 10.1 — back in 2022 — and it’s still not fixed, which is really disappointing.

Here are some Reddit threads and official forum posts where other players have also reported the same issue:

(Good vidéo of comparison on this post) https://www.reddit.com/r/wow/comments/104phyx/night_elf_dk_obliterations_effect_sound_and/?sort=new

10.1 PTR: Obliterate and Fury Condemn animations are STILL bugged for Gnomes...

Kul Tiran Animation completely Bugged / Desynced

Hi. Kul Tiran Animations are completely out of sync. When pressing any ability - there is no hit registration whatsoever (no visual animation on target getting hit, no sound effect) + the damage numbers show after delay while after animation end. For spells like rampage where the hit registration + damage numbers show during the animation - all 3 damage numbers are shown after delay after animation end. It completely ruins the gameplay and feels laggy / sluggish / not responsive. This is NOT a…

Night Elf DK obliterations effect, sound, and damage numbers are broken

Obliterate Animation Bug?

Frost DK Obliterate bug

Still bugged. It’s been 2 years

DK Oblit animation bug

Female Night Elf Death Knight Obliterate bug is still in the game

As the tile says. The missing sound/effect and delayed damage numbers for female Night Elf Death Knights Obliterate spell is still in the game. There are plenty of posts and bug reports about this with no fix yet. Can you please fix this already? If people dont know what I’m talking about just google something along the lines of “delayed obliterate damage dk” and you’ll find a video of it on reddit. I’m making this post because the ingame bug report feature sucks. Edit: Here is a link to the vi…

https://www.reddit.com/r/wow/comments/1fjfcq0/nelf_frost_dk_is_unplayable/

https://www.reddit.com/r/wow/comments/1ezcapc/bugged_kul_tiran_melee_animations_impact_effects/

https://www.reddit.com/r/wow/comments/1eu2ixb/kul_tiran_animations_are_lagging_delayed_bug/

It would be great if Blizzard could at least acknowledge the problem. It’s been going on for way too long.

[Andruid-azuremyst]

@Caïrn-dalaran

I’ve submitted multiple bug reports in-game and haven’t received any response from Blizzard.

Good, that is exactly what you should do.
However, Blizzard won’t respond back to you - all you can hope is they will fix the bug. Looking at the bugs on this forum alone I’d say there are many bugs which have higher priority than this

[Caïrn-dalaran]

Ok this is not a game breaking bug but it is affecting a lot of players and has been for 3 years now… Blizzard is not a small company and we pay them monthly, this should have been fixed a long time ago or at least acknowledged.