How they managed to make everything worse?
As a shadow priest main since BC, I fully approve.
Looking cool imo.
I just hope the glyph still works...
Sometimes I miss Mind Spike. The animation and sound effect anyway, not so much the poorly designed talent from this expansion. It was cool when you used it rotationally back in WoD, with the talent that turned Shadow into a direct damage caster, especially when you got Multistrike procs.
Cool ! but I loved the priest from WoD.
Don't different races have different animations? Or are we getting rid of that now?
I'm not sure about this one, honestly.Right now it seems like all of the SPriest animations are dark for the sake of being dark. While it makes sense for all of the "Void" spells to be epic and have an inky blackness literally pouring out of you as you wear down your foe with entropy and all-consuming nothingness (and thus I think they're great), I feel like a lot of the "Mind" and "Shadow" spells you cast outside of Void Form should be... subtler. I don't think the old animations for things like Mind Blast and Shadow Form were necessarily better made or even good by today's standards, but I do think they were more fitting for the image of a Priest whispering doubts into the target's mind, rather than 'flaying their mind' by cracking their skull open with an intense laser first. I think of the pre-Void Form spells as the type a Shadow Priest would use while walking the streets of Stormwind in order to avoid the guards' suspicion - like Benedictus did, until he threw off the pretense of subtlety and called upon the true power of the Void for the final confrontation while babbling wicked words in the mad tongue.
All of the animations look nice, but i think the shadowform particle effects (the purple flame) should be reduced or lessened. Looking at it really hurts my eyes.
Glyph of Shadow effect on Shadow Priest animation on WOW PTR.
Now we are just a purple blob, what is the use of putting together a really cool looking gear set if you can't see it. Disappointing. Some of the animations look good but not a huge overall difference JMO
Me likey! Is power word shield getting an update? :B
They look cool, but I want MORE. I'd also like the option to make Shadowform passive and remove its visual. It's cooler casting shadow spells in your normal form, and then erupting into Voidform! I also want to see my transmog and character in combat.
Much better.