Terrible Lightning Splash animation

ZhuJiuyin

As shown in the video, due to the delay in the animation of Lightning Splash, when you quickly switch bars, the set bonus of another bar will be incorrectly procured.
https://youtu.be/vmXaAEFBYvo?si=zf6wN0HVYISFfYOD

Lightning Splash’s poor animations have been complained about by players for a long time, and in addition to suits like Jerensi’s Bladestorm, Monolith of Storms also suffers from the same problem.

Please fix this terrible animation, or completely redo Lightning Splash (which I believe is the better option)

MashmalloMan

While I agree, lightning splash morphs have sucked for about 8 years, your video oddly shows off one of the benefits for not changing it.

In the case of Bladestorm, you can cast splash as the last skill in your back bar rotation to proc it on front bar without needing a long form aoe dot there. Vise versa for back bar if you cast it first in your rotation, it will land before you bar swap.

Delay would make much more sense if it behaved like Templar's shards, shifting the damage budget to direct damage upfront, with weak damage over time just to proc surge, effects, sets, or the synergy. This would be much more in line with Sorc's direct damage identity. I'd prefer this to removing it personally, but an instant landing would be nice to make it feel less clunky.

Don't worry, give it another 8 years and they'll make a real adjustment to it.

ZhuJiuyin

But this is only a small inadvertent benefit of bad animation, and conversely, (for example) if you put Lightning Splash on the front bar, you may miss the bonus sets that should be proc when switching bars quickly, such as Monolith of Storms .

Video display:
https://youtu.be/LVC3qpPCaR8?si=7M_XLwrUoMrLDwPm