i’ve never complained either on wow official forum nor here on reddit, but this is serious.
The current shadow bolt animations for warlock sucks so bad, it would be amazing if we got back original animation (it’s ok to make it “HD” or whatever) but i understand that there are some people who likes the current one (you shouldn’t be a warlock) however, if at least you could give us a glyph to change the animation (like you did back in Cata with the 3 split shadow bolt) back to the original one.
I agree. Need this. New animations awful.
We just need a glyph for old Shadowbolt animation.
Those who love new one will be happy. And those who don’t will have option to change effect.
I miss the old flying skull made me feel like Quan Chi.
Also i do miss the dragon soul trinket that made me fire volley of skulls
the new animation is just dull has no flavor and looks really ugly.
I prefer the old demonbolt animation as well, the new one feels and looks unfinished…
I fully agree, the new animations are horrible and lackluster, the best example of this is that all mobs , even new ones in nyalotha raid , that use shadowbolts use the old animation, same goes for incinerate, there are mobs in the quel danas instances that use a cooler incinerate. Warlock visuals were updated an expansion later, when the staff didn’t care about preserving the spirit of the spells or fixing them anymore. Best examples, all skulls are removed, so they don’t have to do 2 versions for the chinese as well, chaos bolt doesn’t even arc anymore it is a beeline cast animation, it still starts from the middle of the character like the old one, it isn’t built up or anything with the animation ( just look at mage pyroblast or lava burst cast on shaman ) The particles used themselves have no transparency to emulate magic or fire or shadow, they are just high saturated and thrown in there. Please give us glyphs like in Pandaria to use multiple smaller ACTUAL shadowbolts, give us a glyph to use old shadowbolt in place of our current shadowbolt or incinerate, same for chaos bolt and for every other animation that was “updated” . It is visually painful to see that an older spell like soulfire or cataclysm has a cool animation and visual and it looks streamlined, and the new ones are just hastily done or look like shadowpriest spells. A warlock was always a caster who used necromantic, shadow and fire magic, it was the middle ground between necromancer and mage, now most fire spells look like they got lava and the necromantic shadowy skull ones look shadowpriest material. We are now the snot class, we throw green or purple balls/bolts of snot/buggers/mucus/slime at people, fear us… Also, to whoever redesigned demonology, WHY ARE WE THE ONLY PET CLASS WHO DOESN:T HAVE 2 PETS ACTIVE, even unholy DK has 2 pets ffs, but thank you for making me feel like an incompetent loser that needs to summon a demonic tyrant to motivate a bunch of damned imps, just because you had to find a niche for that new model… Also, putting brown pants on the fel succubus, real low blow man.
^ Posted with the wrong character “Blackarm” above xD, mah bad, just posting again to show I’m an actual warlock player
WOTLK incinerate was much better than the modern one as well, the wall of fire snaking to the target and erupting them into flames was much more satisfying than the current wimpy iteration.
Overall warlocks really got the shaft with spell animations if 10 year old ones are far superior.
Have u seen chaosbolt animation?
Blizzard just stopped giving a damn I swear lol
New chaosbolt has good impact effect, but generaly it is worse then old Chaosbolt
New Chaos Bolt is by FAR superior. Old CB was so dated that it was almost unbearable in Legion.
The only thing I miss from old CB is a curve. That all.
Old one was great. You could literaly poop yourself seeing one flying in your direction 
incinerate, chaos bolt, shadow bolt animations have lost their “power” in the update.
incinerate looks like nothing compared to one of the best (my favourite) animation in game.
chaos bolt looks like a blob of mucus, it has no character. old one, outdated graphics aside, was terrifying, especially with the green dragon head. now it’s just a blob that doesn’t even curve lol.
shadow bolt is just a disgrace.
Yeah i agree, i hate the new incinirate, chaosbolt and shadowbolt animations.
Totally agree with this! The feel of the animations now is just way too cartoony for me and they feel weightless and lacklustre to cast.
So much more could be done with glyphs in this game it feels like such a waste at some points.
Do blizzard even read the forums anymore?
Absolutely agree, old shadow bolt and incinerate were much better looking and satisfying to use, bring them back with glyphs please.
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