I'm 100% rolling a mage the second these animations drop
Fire Mage will be on the way soon too!
The frost changes are amazing, no more snow bunny spells. The arcane are nice, even if subtle. I almost liked the arcane missiles in their previous iteration though.
Hooooly #$%^, can I finally find casters to recruit for my raid with this? It's all melee, I swear!
I like how frost got a little more realistic with their spells, but the impact animation of frostbolt is cartoonish to the level of monk's paralyze.I'm not sure why Blizzard thinks an 8 frame animation is better for impact than particles.But overall these changes are great, and I can't wait to see what more they are gonna do to Shadow priests considering it already looks amazing on PTR.
Not bad at all. :)
As a Fire Mage, I can honestly say that if Wowhead hadn't posted this update, that I probably wouldn't have noticed the subtle changes to my spells... When they run side-by side, the changes are obvious though... I can honestly say that I like where these changes are heading... Taking better advantage of better CPU's and GPU's, and just overall tightening up the animations....
Frost spells are looking amazing, I'm very happy because its the spec I main on the Mage.But the Elemental Shaman animations and effects are on another level.
I really really hope that the Lightning bolt will get back to a bolt flying to a target appereance, more like mage, because i think the earlier appereance was much better looking!
I know they stated locks wont be in 7.3...but I hope when they do they give destro their fire efefct we had with embers :(also frost finally looks decent!
I like how with ice lance changes between left and right hand to throw it now.
@kulwerstuxThe current Lightning Bolt's animation is realistic. The shaman's abilities are supposed to look primal and raw. Primitive even. If you want elaborate light shows and flashy, unnatural animations, that's what we mages are for.
I'm liking a lot of the new animations I've seen so far this expansion, they have a good "mostly the same but BETTER" thing going on.
It's really a shame that flurry is THAT bad compared to the other changes.
these animations give me hope that warlocks might get some of their identity back in 7.3.5
Flurry is a brand new spell with 7.0 so idk why they felt the need to redo its animation again. The new animation is terrible, along with Living Bomb and Arcane Barrage.The rest of the new animations for Mages are long overdue though, and they look great.One thing I'd really prefer to see are glyphs that let us keep specific old spell effects for those that prefer the originals to the new ones.
Will Paladins get this sick animations too?
All mage specs got some nice new effect, but honestly I don't see too much difference between old and new fire spell animations. Arcane animations are just beautiful.As for frost, they're also nice, but it seems that Blizzard started to using the same design pattern for AoE spells, I mean, Blizzard looks like a blue / white Efflorescence. It looks good though, but I'm gonna miss those tiny snowflakes when the spell hits the ground. Anyways, someone also said in the comments about the ice lance changes between left and right hand to throw it now, I agree, it's a very good change. Flurry looks a bit strange, but overall all changes are decent.
One of my top 3 played characters is m arcane mage, so I'm glad this is going to make it into 7.3. The new arcane blast looks amazing!
I'm new to wow but I belong to the waiting list for using our weapons for casting and attacking. New animations look awesome, frost is giving the feel that the proyectile speed is getting a sexy increase, but I can't avoid feel arcane looks like a mahou shoujo
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