Thread: Preserving removed animations in 4.0

Doesn't explain why the animation had to be removed. Heck, you could as easily just made Wide Volley the Quick Nock trait -- at over 12 yalms from the target, you can still use Quick Nock, but it consumes 20 more TP.

I still think Wide Volley should have just been scrapped entirely when they did the Bloodletter/RoD changes and replaced with a skill that actually had some use.

I am sad about Scourge though, it's a nice DoT and anim.

From a technical point of view, they can't remove the animations. They are "baked" into the character model interactions, so if they remove it, they also remove anything that depends on the animation keyframes.

That said, if the skill is not there, then nothing can trigger it either. So they might get moved to the emotes menu. It's bad practice to actually "Delete" things from game databases because that creates fun problems where the id number gets reassigned during maintenance and then suddenly everyone who had it on their macro menu is doing something else.

Like what I expect is for them to become "green" like the mount actions. So they may still exist somewhere but they do no damage/buff/debuff.

I am really going to miss Mercy Stroke. I use it all the time and get the final proc for extra HP on a regular basis.

I have a feeling they might put in those skills as emotes that they remove and are highly requested by players in mogstation and charge it for a fee....oh god..

Shadowskin will be missed for me.

All of DRK's cooldown animations are super-stylish and it'll be a shame to lose any of them.

Originally Posted by Singularity

Shadowskin will be missed for me.

All of DRK's cooldown animations are super-stylish and it'll be a shame to lose any of them.

I am secretly hoping some of the new cross class skills will take the form of the 'removed' abilities. A DRK using rampart hurts my soul.

I'll miss Wide Volley, and I'll certainly miss Dancing Edge, couldn't they have got rid of Aeolian instead? :/

Edited the OP with some new info from the E3 interview.