Thread: Preserving removed animations in 4.0

Originally Posted by RaizeGraymalkin

Why in the world do people like Scourge so much? It's a boring ass side slash.

It glows red and makes lightsaber sounds.

Also it has the highest DoT-cleave potential in the game.

Was this truth not self-evident?

Originally Posted by Eloah

Did they indicate why they are removing ring of thorns. Is it the whole no AoE thing again, grr..... it was a decent AoE move better than that line one.

They didn't mention why, but my guess is that it's because of some dribble about individuality and how no other melee job has a linear AoE. Maybe peppered in with some explanation of how it feels more logical lore-wise or something along those lines.

Oh right, let's not forget every doofus in Idyllshire endlessly spamming it because it makes you wonder "who finds that entertaining" only to realize that it might have to do with the reasoning behind the DRG "first dead" stereotype.

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..