NEW ANIMATION FOR LIGHTNING BOLT

Classes Shaman
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I hope in the patch 8.1, the lb will have an update like the animation and the cast that have the tauren shaman at the pre-bfa event
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Just noticed it. The Horde Conscripts in the very north of Darkshore have a new spell effect, both casting and the spell itself, for Lightning Bolt. It has the new warping effect when the lightning hits the target, which is pretty cool.

https://imgur.com/a/LWo2k42
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I wasn't so long ago that lightning bolt and chain lightning had new spell effects. The chain lightning one was eventually dropped due to popularity of the existing animation, and limited visual effect to tell an elemental shaman when a mastery proc had occurred.

Though I do wish the current lightning bolt animation looked more "fluid" like chain lightning does.
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I want to have the old lightning bolt from classic. And not this wet noodle we have now.
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30/07/2018 19:27Posted by Mussy
I want to have the old lightning bolt from classic. And not this wet noodle we have now.

Idk how the old one was, but I really like this one. Chain Lightning as well; and the... um... whatsitcalled, the aoe Lightning that Enhancement shammies can do in melee.

Shaman animations are the best imo, I really love the look & feel and hope it won't change!
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I kinda want the old lightning bolt back. Not the EXACT same one, but similar. ball of lightning followed by its tail.
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Here's how it all looks:
- https://i.imgur.com/UUOrkT8.jpg
(The NPC version also have bigger VFX on caster's hands, and juicy bursts of electricity/sparks on the target when it hits.)

Current Lightning Bolt is straight up the worst we have ever had.

Thin wet noodle that doesn't even look anything like lightning/electric arc at all.
Hell, Warcraft III had better lightning effects!
All pverious variations of Lightning Bolt were more beefy and felt stronger, even vanilla "lightning orb" one (as well as WC3 shaman basic attack which looked the same)

It is such a shame that new lightning bolt introduced in Legion beta was scrapped, it looked so good.
And its even worse that we lost our Fulmination lightning strikes in favor of this tiny unnoticeable "earth shock" effect. Our strongest hitting ability looks like nothing.
Why, Blizzard?

Between how weak we are now and how we lost all visual flavor that we had in previous addons im seriously questioning whether i should continue playing... And im sure a lot of other shamans think about rerolling/dropping the game as well.
Recent story advancement with garrosh 2.0 on the horizon isn't reassuring either...

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Grock
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Trolls on Echo Islands have the old LB animation. Would be cool to have all three available, but as a cosmetic "glyph" option.
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Also, I want the old chain heal animation. The yellow beams from wc3.

The one we now looks like vomit from a person that didnt eat for 2 days. And and top of that we have a glyph that gives the animation a more "watery" appearance, so no change at all. I don't get it.
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Oh yeah, old Chain Heal was nice :)

But as for Lightning Bolt, I really like the current 1-thread animaton. The Horde NPC version isn't bad either, but it kinda looks like an aoe to me... I'd prefer to keep the current one.
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Never mind the animation: why does casting it now sound like a Luger going off in a bunker? Or did I just only recently properly listen to it for the first time?
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Dont really care about the animation, I miss the old one that was a projectile.
If any change should be made then just have it be the same as the chainlighting.
BUT before any animation change they should bring Gust of wind and let us have fun again! make it a talent on the "healing row" heck even puttin it on the bottom row instead of Unlimited power..
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and lightning shield please...
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old LB looked way better than this 2D gif … i mean wow… this lazy ?

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You like, that the strength of the spell is being reflected in its animation? this crap animation looks like a zap from an AAA battery. A taser is stronger than that crap looks

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The posts since 2018 about the Lightning Bolt used by the Shaman (from starting a Shaman just a few minutes ago) is going to determine, Blizzard, whether you get a continous montly payment or a Shadowlands purchase out of me.

So F* you too from what you’re doing to your customers by deliberately aggravating them and using a totally s*t effect and animation.

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Hey all - I know it’s been a while since there has been a comment on this, but thought I’d share my piece. I remembered at some point a couple years ago seeing a fan trailer vid by a YouTuber called IKedit. And although was just a small cameo, right at the end, you see an Orc Shaman player casting Lightning Bolt. Upon seeing this animation I knew that this is what may be missing and may be the compromise everyone is looking for - they have done a lot of WoW related content and in some cases have updated the spell animations in their own styles (and IMO they look great!)

To see their full video, look for “WoW BFA - Best of MDI Cinematic (World of Warcraft)”

Unfortunately I can’t post links as this is my first comment on the forums, but hopefully I can put links in the future

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In this clip they’re not using any custom animations, it’s normal lighting bolt cast in game.
Btw how the hell you necro thread from '18?

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Okay, yes, understandably that wasn’t a good example, but in fairness, I referenced his other videos that have other awesome custom animations in them. In reference to this thread, look at 2.03 - this is deffo not the lightning noodle that we have in-game currently…

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Wait what :flushed: Is it really? It looks so outta place :smile: