Yesterday I logged in my Holy Paladin for the first time in BfA and I was very impressed with the new spell animations they got. Holy Light has a beautiful animation in which the paladin conjures a tome of light and he turns the pages while he’s casting the spell, so cool! Flash of Light is also unique, it flashes light rapidly on top of the Paladin with a swooop sound effect., and looks neat.
Priest looks lackluster in comparison. Heal and Flash Heal share the same animation! And all you see are sparkles around your characters hands. I think priests deserve better spell animations. What do you think?
Shadow got updated amimations in 8.0, it does use some of holy’s animations though… well the shield, which is still 2D! I would think Holy’s animations will in the 9.0 patch, they seemed to have done a lot of them (hunter, warlock, mage, shadow) in the last year or 2. Holy might get a bit of a rework at the same time, it’s style seems to be falling behind the more modern mechanics.
Personally I’m not a fan of the new Paladin animations. I prefer subtler animations, and the new Paladin ones are very “loud”. I’m glad the new consecrate didn’t make it into the game.
That said, I think they did a good job on the new Holy Nova, as well as the new animations for SW:P and PTW. They’re elegant!
