Volley animationFollow

So....what do ya'll think about the new animation for volley? I don't like it. It looks like we're blasting fireworks at the mobs. While I'm sure I'll get used to it I much prefered arrows raining from the skies. I also noticed there's a sound glitch with it. The noise doesn't always go away after it's done. Another and myself were spamming volley while waiting in the arena queue and we made the place sound like it was built next to a subway. Not sure why we got such a kick out of it.

Also, it seems to really bog down people on older machines. I ran H bot last night with another hunter and the mage and the healer kept ******** whenever we both fired off vollies cause it dropped their frames to 10 - 15 fps. Amusing but still a smooth run.


Anyway.....thoughts, opinions, gripes, complaints, desires for the old animation. Let them be known.

North is right on target about the "older computers"...new ones are very reasonable $$$ now...so people with slower machines...do yourselves...and everyone else on WOW a favor and get a new one for Christmas... ;)

And no more will my Dwarf be forced to load a dozen arrows into his boomstick
to get off a decent volley,damn dangerous that was, lost several guns due to shaft blockage...

New animation is nice though, can pretend they're bullets right good.

Haha, I think it's a pretty cool thing.

Havn't had a chance to try both out yet, but is the new animation for both types of weapons, i feel that the new animation is good for guns, but they should leave the old animation for bows, just a little distinguishing fact. I also agree about the old pc's, I bought my pc 3 years ago and its still a screaming machine, just upgraded my grafix card to a 512 and its amazing.

QFT. But then again, I prefer high-end hookers.

I miss the old animation with the shower of arrows. No more forcing the enemy to fight in the shade.

They have two separate shoot animations for guns and bows, why can't they do the same for Volley?

Every time I see the new animation I think of certain dirty rap songs and I chuckle.

Any one play mercenarys?
Remember the carpet bomb or whatever it was where a huge bomb falls, blows up into medium size bombs, which blow up into more smaller bombs which explode in an acre radius.
^that'd be a great one for volley^

I didn't much like the fact that for so long, every once in a while I shot arrows from my gun.

But then, the very day I switch to a bow, I'm shooting blue sparkly bullets from it.

You know what, blizzard? Make Volley have two possible animations. The old arrows one if you have a bow or crossbow, or a less extravagant version of this new one if you have a gun.

Try it in Orgrimar on a hot day and watch the kids run under it thinking it's a sprinkler. It's novel but find it all a bit to comical for my liking.

Technically, what you're describing is the very concept of a volley. ;p

I'd not mind if it took more of a Hero approach and just had a mass quantity of projectiles coming down all at the same time, instead of a onesie-twosie type effect.

Ah, now that I agree with. And yes, I do agree that between the two animations we have, I'd prefer the old one. :)

Are you serious? I heard it on my machine (software sound, and decent speakers), and my boyfriend's machine (using hardware sound with an Creative X-fi sound card, and some of the best surround-sound speakers on the market), and we both agree that it just sounds like someone blowing into a microphone.

As for the new animation, it looks buggy at best when spell animation is turned down. When spell animation is turned up, it still only looks mediocre. I'm reminded of sparkly things you'd see coming out of a wand in a Harry Potter movie.

I really miss the old animation and sound.