It is just a copy pasted DK claw strike that isn't really a claw strike because it's a sword/staff strike. The old Materialize vampire power found in Clouding Swarm is a much nicer melee focused vampiric blood magic attack, but noooooo..... can't use that. Just take out the teleport, remove the dark cloudy style materialization effect on your character, and voila you have a high powered vampiric spell with a cool animation.

Alucardo wrote: »

It blatantly just reuses DKs searing strike animation, so it looks weird to me because that ability was never intended to be a spammable.

Actually Venomous Claw morph have an awsome sound effect, as if it really rend flesh and armor. It is very satisfying to use it as spammable and i did so when RPed unarmed vampire. But then ZOS standardized Venomous Claw and it applies DOT only at 2nd second, so if you spam it it will not apply DOT at all. It's like rapidly strike someone with a poisoned dagger and he will not be poisoned, he will be posioned only if you stop strike him, LOL, so dumb.
It's an old video from Greymoor PTS and Eviscerate without sound effects yet, but you can see how it feels to use Venomous Claw as spammable:

Feljax wrote: »

Can we please get an animation change to Vampire's Eviscerate (and morphs)?

Judging by the icon, the animation should look like an alternating empty-handed claw swipe (a la werewolf light attack). But instead, we have this awkward one-handed caveman club bash with red claw streaks incomprehensibly emanating from the weapon (at least the streaks would make sense if it were the empty-handed animation). This looks strange enough with a one-handed weapon equipped but it looks absolutely ludicrous with a staff in hand.

I've tried multiple times to use this in some of my solo builds and I just keep switching it out again because I can't stand to look at it. It just ruins the fun.

I know, there's lots more to fix but something to consider anyway.

You can imagine that vampires are strong and can hold weapon with thumb and palm, while attack with other 4 claws.
It's not the best animation, but acceptable, the worst part is the sound of Eviscerate. Sound is so empty and not impactful, sounds like you always miss and hit the air.

My personal biggest problems with vampire skills visuals is Blood Scion abomination ult, without any option for alternative morph and Vampiric Drain Ghostbusters beam style. I even tried to use unmorphed Vampiric Drain, because it somehow remind blood, but for some reason unmorphed skill is even more bright and shiny than morphed, it literally make my eyes hurt, especially in dark zones as delves, for examples. Some comparison pictures of old and new Vampiric Drain from Greymoor PTS:

Please fix Zos. And the sound as well. It sounds so lackluster.