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[Sabindeus]

It's a bunch of golden shiny leavesbutterflies on the target.

Fixt

Indeed.

And the judgement animation was the same used for holy procs on the target (like the dot of SoV).
They look similar (as in tiny and golden) but not the same.

No, it was the same as Faerie Fire. Leaves, butterflies, whatever.

[Gideon]

What did I start?

The seal/judgement system was cobbled together quickly just before launch and they needed animations in a hurry. For seals they used the Inner Fire animation and Judgement had to share with Faerie Fire.

That was until, iirc, the paladin class review (the one where they removed the word "tanks" from the official paladin class page). Then Judgement got a sort of holy spark thing on the mob. Looked cool. That was probably it for vanilla-era animation changes until at least 2.0 just before TBC.

/uphillbothwaysinthesnow

[Pizbit]

/uphillbothwaysinthesnow

But not barefoot? YOUNGSTER!

[Sabindeus]

What did I start?

The seal/judgement system was cobbled together quickly just before launch and they needed animations in a hurry. For seals they used the Inner Fire animation and Judgement had to share with Faerie Fire.

That was until, iirc, the paladin class review (the one where they removed the word "tanks" from the official paladin class page). Then Judgement got a sort of holy spark thing on the mob. Looked cool. That was probably it for vanilla-era animation changes until at least 2.0 just before TBC.

/uphillbothwaysinthesnow

Your accounting of events totally agrees with mine up to the part where you claim Judgement got a new animation in 1.9. I am pretty sure that didn't happen.

[Noradin]

What did I start?

The seal/judgement system was cobbled together quickly just before launch and they needed animations in a hurry. For seals they used the Inner Fire animation and Judgement had to share with Faerie Fire.

That was until, iirc, the paladin class review (the one where they removed the word "tanks" from the official paladin class page). Then Judgement got a sort of holy spark thing on the mob. Looked cool. That was probably it for vanilla-era animation changes until at least 2.0 just before TBC.

/uphillbothwaysinthesnow

Your accounting of events totally agrees with mine up to the part where you claim Judgement got a new animation in 1.9. I am pretty sure that didn't happen.

I'm sure it did. Its the one I remember best.

[Gideon]

I'm fairly sure that for a short period we had the spark instead of the butterflies but did not yet have the skyhammer. It was a long time ago though, I could be wrong.

[Arcand]

My major problem with the skyhammer judgement graphic is that if the target
is moving on certain types of ground, such that its 'vertical' axis is
rotating, the skyhammer wriggles around to track it and it looks like a
sperm fertilizing an egg.

Yes, I know how ludicrous that sounds. I still think of it every time.