I just wanted to point this out, but they are spending all this time and effort to redo animations and animation skins.......What is it worth in actual combat? Combat is so bloated with hundreds of random inconsequential proc effects and particles going everywhere that you can hardly see any important animations.

I feel like back in the day you would have very simple animations and little particles for generic skills. Then you would have more flashy animations for CC or ultimates to highlight the game changing moments. Whereas now we have things like valkyn skoria does the meteor ultimate animation. Cmon, a 1-3k damage proc doing the same thing as an ultimate. We could probably eliminate half the complaints with things like charm and Rush of Agony if people could see the important animations. At the same time who cares about the inconsequential undodgeable run of the mill proc set that someone in the 30 man zerg chasing me is using? (just talking about animation use here, we could go on for days about how charm should be tied to an ultimate like green balance thicket instead of a "minor" scribing skill buff)

Making design choices unmoderated like this for years, yet we wonder why the server lags?

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