old animation

[Katrinne]

I started playing with the new animations and I don't see why the old ones should still be available, it defeats the purpose of the new ones' existence.

Maybe because the "new" ones ROOT and SLOW the char in place while doing the entire animation, so an INSTANT spell becomes a 2 seconds cast time with ROOT/SLOW effect (idk which cause I quit game cause of that, just saw the other day some update that they said you would be slowed down instead of completly rooted LOL).
Oh also, if you arent facing the target EXACTLY, add a special effect on every cast (at least from fire): "you will spin for 2 seconds and be rooted for another 2 seconds while doing the 'casting fireball' animation". An INSTANT spell.

Maybe, just maybe, thats why he wants the old animations?

I just check forums every now and then to see if they figure out how combat got awful with this nonsense (at least for fire/priest); meanwhile I will keep looged off so I just wont login and AFK complaining in chat about combat nerf and how every single person in my guild just logs in to AFK also. That way devs wont count my login time as "playing time" and it becomes more evident that people quit cause of combat nerf.