wow Covenant Ability Visual Updates in Patch 10.2.5

[Staff 1,488]

Shadowlands Covenant abilities that have made into class talents in Dragonflight received new animations in Patch 10.2.5!

Shadowlands Covenant abilities transferred over into Dragonflight with Covenant-themed animations even though they have been baked into class talents. However, Blizzard is updating their spell animations in the forthcoming update to the game.

Opaldiia released two videos covering the new animations. The first video shows Mage's Shifting Power, Radiant Spark, Druid's Convoke the Spirits, Paladin's Divine Toll, Shaman's Primordial Wave, Rogue's Sepsis, and Hunter's Death Chakram.

The second video showcases Druid's Adaptive Swarm, Death Knight's Abomination Limb, Paladin's Divine Toll (one more time for some reason) and Blessing of Seasons.

[Prophet001 598]

The uhh... Adaptive Swarm does not look better. It looks worse.

[Teufel 331]

2 hours ago, Prophet001 said:

The uhh... Adaptive Swarm does not look better. It looks worse.

I'm starting to wonder if there's a single post of yours that is not complaining. 

No, it does look better, unless you want to explain why you're sending out a horde of dead flies as a druid.

[Prophet001 598]

4 minutes ago, Teufel said:

I'm starting to wonder if there's a single post of yours that is not complaining. 

No, it does look better, unless you want to explain why you're sending out a horde of dead flies as a druid.

Sure I'll explain it.

This:

is transparent and wisp like and ethereal and while it could probably use some improvement to align it more with druids specifically, it still looks better than this:

which is none of those things and looks like some poison cloud or rogue something or the other.

:)

[TheCake 144]

The druid ones looks worse, imo.

Explaining why:
I think they are worse designwise.
A.S looks like a fartcloud now, less interesting, not actually flies going out (which makes sense for druids)
Convoke looks less flowy, it's stale and purple instead of a more natural blue. I thought of it like water-power, but I guess they are going for a more arcane look now.

Also gonna add in that I think Shifting Power looks worse for Mage too, it has more power to it in the current version, imo.
The new one might align more with pure arcane magic however, so I guess that's the argument for it; but it still looks a lot "less".

 

Edited November 22, 2023 by TheCake

[Darkzarupia 43]

They should give us glyphs to keep the covenant animations

[Novashi 1]

4 hours ago, Prophet001 said:

The uhh... Adaptive Swarm does not look better. It looks worse.

I don`t think this was meant to make them look "better" but rather remove the resemblence of Shadowlands covenants, because most of these abilities look out of place to the general class design

[Starym 3,800]

3 hours ago, Novashi said:

I don`t think this was meant to make them look "better" but rather remove the resemblence of Shadowlands covenants, because most of these abilities look out of place to the general class design

Bingo!

[Prophet001 598]

4 hours ago, Novashi said:

I don`t think this was meant to make them look "better" but rather remove the resemblence of Shadowlands covenants, because most of these abilities look out of place to the general class design

Yes that's why they said they were doing it but it should still look like a swarm and not a toxic gas cloud.

iuno maybe it's just me lol

[Teta 15]

i want them to remove some covenant skills, bonedust brew, faeline stomp, primordial wave, and almost everything but abomination limb and mind games. 
ITS MY OPINION, SUPERIOR THAN YOURS, BUT ITS MINE.

[Ken007 97]

Too bad there wasn't a way you could set the colors to your spells how you wanted them........