Do you want the animation for bloodmist to change?

Zastrix

TL;DR Keep the current PTS damage/effect/description just make the teleportation look like bats and for the AOE effect to look like bats. This is only a graphical change and not gameplay-wise.

Rather than how the skill functions (which has okay damage, DOT and instant teleportation without affecting NPCs and players in the pathway), the animation for it feels subpar and kinda immersion-breaking.

This is kind of an idea to essentially change 'blood mist' into 'bat swarm' and have the animation as shown from the NPC below (plus an AOE of bats like how the ulti had pre-greymoor):

The visual effect while teleporting:

The visual effect after teleportation (without being invisible):


The NPC itself has a better animation than the player model and using bats to 'steal health' makes more sense than some mist which doesn't even go into the character.

The other morph can remain as a mist as it actually does make sense that you turn into mist to escape rather than to attack.

ZOS is changing the skill to make it more close to the roots and for it to be immersive so let's finish the job of making it fully immersive!

Edit:

Also the current morph is more optimized for damage rather than escaping so it logically it should be used in offence/weaving. Now the current visual effect of it is hard to make it work with weaving as the character model changes opacity while there's a lot of fuzzyness going on causing you to potentially fudge your rotation! A crisp change of graphics would help!

Edit 2:

If you want to make us feel powerful for being vampires, make it look cool rather than graphics from WoW in 2005.

[Edited title for Petitions and Protest]

ketsparrowhawk

What, no! I want mist which damages enemies!

Can't wait for the new Blood Mist. My StamPlar is gonna love it. I would have no use for the change you suggest.

ElementalDud

Yeah, I'd love for a batswam animation for lifesteal!

ketsparrowhawk wrote: »

Can't wait for the new Blood Mist. My StamPlar is gonna love it. I would have no use for the change you suggest.

Unless I'm misunderstanding OP, they're just asking for an animation change, no change to how to skill will actually function.

Zastrix

Yeah, I'd love for a batswam animation for lifesteal!

ElementalDud wrote: »

ketsparrowhawk wrote: »

Can't wait for the new Blood Mist. My StamPlar is gonna love it. I would have no use for the change you suggest.

Unless I'm misunderstanding OP, they're just asking for an animation change, no change to how to skill will actually function.

Exactly. It should have the same damage/effect/proc in combat as of right now on PTS, just make it look modern rather than from WoW in 2005.

Michaelkeir

Yeah, I'd love for a batswam animation for lifesteal!

I’m on board with this. As a matter of fact I posted this very idea years ago that a vampire needs an AoE bat swarm skill to offers us vampires a vampire skill based AoE option.

chessalavakia_ESO

Visually, the animations you are showing do look cooler and it does look more clearly like Vampirism than something that could also pass for being a Nightblade ability.

However, it might become a visual annoyance after a while as the uptime could be quite high. (If the audio is also included that could become annoying as well)

Zastrix

Yeah, I'd love for a batswam animation for lifesteal!

chessalavakia_ESO wrote: »

Visually, the animations you are showing do look cooler and it does look more clearly like Vampirism than something that could also pass for being a Nightblade ability.

However, it might become a visual annoyance after a while as the uptime could be quite high. (If the audio is also included that could become annoying as well)

Same annoyance level as the sorc lightning aspect transformation thing skill tbh

Jammy420

What, no! I want mist which damages enemies!

We already have bats for our ulti, I prefer it not be bat centric as that is extremely cliche

YandereGirlfriend

Yeah, I'd love for a batswam animation for lifesteal!

I would love the animation to be significantly SPED UP - as it is currently, it feels like a half-speed copy of Streak that is also clunkier to use (since you have to target where you want to port to).

Changing the animation to bats would be nice for aesthetics but the skill needs to be faster/more responsive first in order to even justify a slot on the skill bar.

Zastrix

Yeah, I'd love for a batswam animation for lifesteal!

YandereGirlfriend wrote: »

I would love the animation to be significantly SPED UP - as it is currently, it feels like a half-speed copy of Streak that is also clunkier to use (since you have to target where you want to port to).

Changing the animation to bats would be nice for aesthetics but the skill needs to be faster/more responsive first in order to even justify a slot on the skill bar.

I am managing to parse on the PTS ~101-105 while using it on my stamblade but I definitely do agree with you. It's super clunky, I have to wait a second/can't weave exactly how I do on other skills and sometimes it won't even work because of the one second and server desync.

Edit: But that isn't a graphical change per se, if (hopefully) this change goes through then it doesn't matter what the speed is. If ZOS speeds up the effect of the skill to not have the second delay then, naturally, the animation would be changed too.

Edit 2: The skill is not justified except for the sole reason of: I want to. There are definitely better class-based DoTs you can use and this doesn't proc rushing agony so in both instances there is something better to slot.