SOULCASTER Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 (edited) This new update totally 'broke' assasin for me. I'll be going back and playing my other alts now. I do NOT like glowing bright purple with this new holocron shield that is ''dark ward'' Anyone else a bit peeved they changed it? Edited June 12, 2013 by SOULCASTER Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ravand Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 Indeed its super ugly. it doesn't look like a shield and it doesn't look starwarish of sci fi or space opera. REMOVE IT NOW. HAVING NO ANIMATION IS BETTER THAN THIS **** !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
havakxes Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 I thought the Shadows Ring of rocks looked bad but this dark ward is just horrible. I will be going back to my Juggernaut for tanking. Thank you Bioware for killing another class for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SOULCASTER Posted June 12, 2013 Author Share Posted June 12, 2013 (edited) I thought the Shadows Ring of rocks looked bad but this dark ward is just horrible. I will be going back to my Juggernaut for tanking. Thank you Bioware for killing another class for me. Yeah thats how I felt exactly. I hated the ring of rocks. Now i see they implemented something worse. I really have a hard time telling if I hate the floating holocron more....or the bright, CONSTANT purple aura. Glad I have alts, I wont be playing assassin anymore. My characters appearance, thats right in front of me every second of my game play, is important to me. And this new animation change looks VERY 'makeb'. Edited June 12, 2013 by SOULCASTER Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MasterFeign Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 I don't mind itafter it's already started revovling around the body, but the whole getup of it starting above your head is stupid. And they kept the old animation too... that just makes it silly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omophorus Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 I don't particularly care for the graphic they chose, but it is a good thing that they (finally) added a visual indicator that Dark Ward is active beyond the buff icon. Naturally, any Assassin tank is going to be monitoring their stack count on Dark Ward frequently in any case, but there are plenty of reasons why an additional indicator is a good thing. I think a less in-your-face glow and a drastically toned-down graphic would be more than sufficient. The elaborate animation and flashy visuals are distracting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElitehunterDS Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 Bioware gave me another reason not to Tank! Deception always <3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aetrus Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 Bioware gave me another reason not to Tank! Deception always <3 In other news, the new animation they gave for 3 stacks of Static Charge looks totally ****** and awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ravand Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 The animation they added looks like a paladin buff from world of Warcraft MMO If i wanted flashy Buffs with glows and runes revolving around me as if am a casino roulette i would not play a starwars.. i would play wow. Reverse the change i cant hardly look at my character anymore. All i see is some purple Glow and rotating Crap flying around. I got great joy from watching my character Block and absorb with my shield. When i used dark ward my shield went up to like 55% and watching it proc all the time was amazing. All that is now Ruined... I cant look at my character any more.... Tell me Bioware... Please tell me. How do you justify the Buff graphic ? The casting of the dark ward has an Amazing animation with a nice visual effect. Like creating a shield out of darkness... Where exactly does the Rotating Rune Roulette Paladin Buff from world of Warcraft fit in the High tech Starwars Lore ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SOULCASTER Posted June 12, 2013 Author Share Posted June 12, 2013 The animation they added looks like a paladin buff from world of Warcraft MMO If i wanted flashy Buffs with glows and runes revolving around me as if am a casino roulette i would not play a starwars.. i would play wow. Reverse the change i cant hardly look at my character anymore. All i see is some purple Glow and rotating Crap flying around. I got great joy from watching my character Block and absorb with my shield. When i used dark ward my shield went up to like 55% and watching it proc all the time was amazing. All that is now Ruined... I cant look at my character any more.... Tell me Bioware... Please tell me. How do you justify the Buff graphic ? The casting of the dark ward has an Amazing animation with a nice visual effect. Like creating a shield out of darkness... Where exactly does the Rotating Rune Roulette Paladin Buff from world of Warcraft fit in the High tech Starwars Lore ? I'm glad I'm not alone, I can't stand the animation at all now. I hate both the purple glow and the floating holocron box. I hope they change it back Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mordranon Posted June 13, 2013 Share Posted June 13, 2013 The new dark ward animation is an insult to the eyes, and to everyone around this class in general each 10-20 seconds of combat...and for something so irritatingly aweful in every concievable way that is going to add up to being A LOT OF @)(# sdkljfslkd times. It clips through the double bladed lightsaber blade as well as any object near our characters also, so of course, even its implementation is a complete failure. Terminate! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xinika Posted June 13, 2013 Share Posted June 13, 2013 It's just an animation... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synzer Posted June 13, 2013 Share Posted June 13, 2013 I'm assuming this is a troll topic? It's very convincing that people are actually serious about this though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nemarus Posted June 13, 2013 Share Posted June 13, 2013 (edited) This animation is garbage and totally distracting, and especially bad since if we are tanking correctly it will be up ALL the time. It is neither consistent with the other assassin animations/effects nor the lore of the class. I came in expecting to see a nice shadowy or lightning (or both!) cloud orbiting around me. Instead I see a JEDI holocron (Jedi holocrons are cubes, Sith holocrons are pyramids) orbiting around me. Ridiculous. Makes me want to change specs. Edited June 13, 2013 by Nemarus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guiken Posted June 13, 2013 Share Posted June 13, 2013 I'm glad for it getting an animation, well.. any animation.. but not THAT animation. It makes no sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ravand Posted June 13, 2013 Share Posted June 13, 2013 (edited) I'm assuming this is a troll topic? It's very convincing that people are actually serious about this though. Its not a troll topic... I play since beta and i m very serious about my games. I Didn't see this coming. i though that nothing would stop me from playing my assassin tank... I underestimated bioware's ability to mess things up. You need to be very careful when adding an animation that is always active. If you play the assassin tank as it should be played... that stupid animation is always on. Edited June 13, 2013 by Ravand Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord_Huxley Posted June 13, 2013 Share Posted June 13, 2013 Make the purple/black flames be the Dark Ward animation or something else. Went into a flashpoint last night and my healer looked at me when I turned on Dark Ward and said "You look like a slot machine". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noctari Posted June 13, 2013 Share Posted June 13, 2013 Please, for all that is holy...change it back.. it's bad enough I have to keep pressing a buff button every 15 secs ( even less if I'm getting hit by multiple NPCs) just to be comparable to other tanks. Now you want me to show off this psychotic form of retardation like a slow kid pretending to be a tornado.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squidkidz Posted June 13, 2013 Share Posted June 13, 2013 Seriously people are complaining about this? Am I the only one that thinks it looks cool? It also looks plenty star wars-y, it looks like a sith holocron when it starts above your head... Also people don't like the floating rocks equivalent for shadows??? You guys need better things to complain about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synzer Posted June 13, 2013 Share Posted June 13, 2013 I guess I underestimated the pettiness of people then. I love the assassin class too much to just stop playing it because of an animation I don't like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trollokdamus Posted June 14, 2013 Share Posted June 14, 2013 (edited) Seriously people are complaining about this? Am I the only one that thinks it looks cool? It also looks plenty star wars-y, it looks like a sith holocron when it starts above your head... Also people don't like the floating rocks equivalent for shadows??? You guys need better things to complain about. First, as has already been mentioned, it's a Jedi holocron, not Sith. Second, how can spare parts of an oversized holocron give any protection? Rocks i understand, but holocron pieces? Also, it's understandable that Shadow rips his rocks from the ground, but where does an Assassin take his huge holocron from? It simply comes out of nowhere. Speaking about myself, i'm pretty tired of all these flashy spell effects in other MMOs. Lack of them in this game was one of the things that attracted me. And now i get one of these things right in my face... Just change it to a very transparent cloud of Dark Side energy and everyone will be happy. Edited June 14, 2013 by Trollokdamus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Majspuffen Posted June 14, 2013 Share Posted June 14, 2013 Speaking about myself, i'm pretty tired of all these flashy spell effects in other MMOs. Lack of them in this game was one of the things that attracted me. And now i get one of these things right in my face... Indeed. Clean and crisp animations was one of the few strong points of this game. They've consistently taken steps to ruin that though, and soon enough I'm sure we'll have as much spell clutter as in other games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SOULCASTER Posted June 14, 2013 Author Share Posted June 14, 2013 I guess I underestimated the pettiness of people then. I love the assassin class too much to just stop playing it because of an animation I don't like. Why is this petty? Because you're the only person out of the 3 pages of people now that don't agree with the topic? Since we are all forced to look at the character we play in front of us, we of course want something more appealing. And SUDDENLY, without warning, changing my assassin that i loved, to now a glowing purple people eater, with a floating box around him...is NOT something that I am enjoying. I care what my characters look like, and I do not like the way he looks now. And worse, we can't change it. Bioware, change this back! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SOULCASTER Posted June 14, 2013 Author Share Posted June 14, 2013 Speaking about myself, i'm pretty tired of all these flashy spell effects in other MMOs. Lack of them in this game was one of the things that attracted me. And now i get one of these things right in my face... Just change it to a very transparent cloud of Dark Side energy and everyone will be happy. I agree, I LOVED dark ward prior to this update, because it was barely noticeable. I don't know WHY they felt the need to change it. I thought it worked and looked great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_biddan_ Posted June 14, 2013 Share Posted June 14, 2013 people will complain about everything. oh believe me,i know your real reason,you are just mad because now in pvp people will notice that your dark ward is active. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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