Old spell animations and models

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I wish they would give us the option to toggle old models and animations.

I absolutely hate many of the new spell animations like the new Shadow Bolt as an example. To me, they seem more cartoonish and lazy than they did prior to Legion. The shamans lightning bolt is another example, it just looks a bit pathetic. Even the vanilla animations were better.

The whole shadow priest and warlock throwing purple blobs just doesn’t feel right, I want actual SHADOW back. I know it’s sort of a big ask considering the lore has changed massively and we have the new allied races, but when I see NPCs using these old animations I feel forlorn. Sad, I know, but I can’t be the only person who feels this way.

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aye totally agree, I miss a proper shadow bolt

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No gonna happen. they aren’t going to keep updating old models when they make changes.

Me too. They even bastardised wings for paladin.

:frowning_face:

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Just the option to let us have the old animations would be nice! Can’t it see it happening myself though. The old (green) druid wrath spell looked great too before Cata gave us a blob of gold dust to throw at people.

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I am quite happy with all animation but I am missing my Aoe hammer and exocirsm sound.

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As I said more maintenance.

Me too I dont like the sun-moon thing. However I’m liking how it plays now they got rid of that damnable balance bar back in Legion. I wasn’t a fan of moon either.

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I miss the old melee auto attack crit sounds and the white popup damage on crits. I know there is a sound pack that mutes annoying wow sounds, but I haven’t been able to find a sound pack that reinserts the old melee sounds.

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Use the glyph for 4 winged avenging wrath, it uses the old model, not the new one.

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I actually kinda liked the old models a little bit more, only because of all the different expresions!

They kinda look the same now.

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I still get same-face from human and gnome.

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Yeah humans are…the same with different eye colours. Would love an update on that.

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Holy butterfly!

I’m a meh on my paladin. I’m not a fan of the Holy power stuff.

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Blizzard, you forgot to change wings animation for tanks!!! Please amend :rofl:
And what an ugly book animation we have now… every time I cast repentance it looks like a priest during a mass on Sunday. amen :pray:
C’mon Blizzy :rofl:
Tomorrow I’m free to marry couples in game between 10:00 and 11:00 gmt at the Stormwind chapel. I’m bringing my golden book.

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Got to agree. A lot of people took the piss out of them but they were actually, as you said, much more expressive and natural, and it seemed like more talent and work went into designing them!

It’s a bit sad they’re lost forever and we have shiny, cheap-looking toons in their place.

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If we had the Old models and faces updated, i think it would be great.

I kinda heard that classic will have the old models or is it false??

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The Classic Shadow Bolt looked amazing. An evil looking skull shaped bolt of greenish-black energy that actually looked like something a warlock would conjure up. It was actually really well detailed, unlike the indiscriminate joke they have now.

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To say also the good, frost mage spells look prettt cool!

But i am sorry for my lock friends :joy:

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Imagine playing Classic with the models we have now. :grimacing: :scream: It’d just be so wrong.

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I hope we have the old models, so we can enjoy them a bit more!

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Of course they will. They are only using the modern engine codebase, it would be too much work to rework the client and server.

In the preview they had toggles for old and new lighting.

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