Vaneras over at the EU forums has answered many rogues' prayers today:We have just received some feedback from the developers regarding this issue and it is good news indeed :-)
The animators are currently working on completely new stealth movement animations to solve this issue. This basically means that the current "funny looking" stealth animations will be replaced with new better looking ones :-)
Currently this issue is expected to be resolved in patch 2.1, but there is a chance that the new animations will not be ready by that time, which may result in the fix being delayed for a later patch.
And shortly later, on why they weren't just restoring the old ones:
I think the animators felt like they wanted something new instead of reverting back to the old animations. Something awesome that wouldn't make it look like that you are moving too fast or too slow when being in stealth.
I remember the old "ice skating" animations quite well, and I do personally agree that they looked better than the current ones, but they still looked kind of silly IMO. :-)
I don't know anyone who likes the new animations, so I can't see why this is anything but welcome news.
















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2-23-2007 @ 1:13AM
roseroyce04 said...
I welcome new stealth animations.
Although, I've never really noticed any of my character animations... I'm so focused on how I'm going to dismantle my target I can't afford any brain power to go checking on how I look while I'm doing it.
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2-23-2007 @ 1:40AM
typecast said...
Yay! Now as long as were looking into funny looking animations for rogues; why does my weapon dissapear half the time i hit w/ a poisoned weapon? Undead rogue and when poison procs w/ a sinister strike my char looks like he's pointing at the target or casting a spell and my weapon that it hits with dissapears during the animation. Seemed like a easily fixable glitch but its been this way forever.
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2-23-2007 @ 2:17AM
Christopher Cruz said...
I just want my Blood Elf to not have wands impaled through its wrist =/
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2-23-2007 @ 3:43AM
Grunt said...
That only goes for rogues, right? My druid is not that bad looking while sneaking in hidden mode.
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2-23-2007 @ 4:06AM
Chris Deke said...
The current belf rogue stealth animation looks great, one wep behind one in front stealthing along, much better than the other races animation IMHO.
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2-23-2007 @ 5:16AM
cheesebanana said...
I was in awe when i transformed into a blood elf in that shadomoon valley quest and i saw their stealth animations. Beautiful. But that being said, their offhand attacks look as girly as their hips (dagger offhand at least).
I think undead rogues look okay tbh but a fresh change will be very nice and hopefully they make them quite sinister and...stealthy looking. Instead of just a slow walk.
I feel bad for orc rogues though...they really make me laugh when they stealth. Definitely got it the worst. Poor guys.
Oh and as a horde i noticed the male NE's casting animation for the first time last night when i saw one hearthing right in front of me in shatt...MAN that is a stupid cast animation. Poor guys
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2-23-2007 @ 9:11AM
Marlus said...
I was talking to a friend rogue and he said that one animation he would like to see is from Cheating Death, because, and I have to aggre, there is nothing more grateful than see your talent procing after a 3k fireball from a mage far away...
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2-23-2007 @ 9:26AM
Toxicwaste said...
The animation for male undead walking backwards is very effeminate
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2-23-2007 @ 10:16AM
Drakar24 said...
THANK YOU BLIZZ! The new animations have been terrible! The NElf one is bad, but man! The orc rogues really got the shaft. BElf one is very good, so hopefully they use the creative juices to come up with something good for everyone, rather than "I just crapped myself and I feel really uncomfortable" animations.
Whoever approved those should be fired.
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2-23-2007 @ 11:43AM
Stiletto said...
I rolled a female BE rogue over a male simply for their stealth animations - female BE's have hands down the best ones.
The "crouching tiger" stance when you're stealthed and not moving is amazing.
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2-23-2007 @ 1:30PM
nea said...
Rogues always get what they want! That cannot be! We, warriors, want different berserker stance icons for every race, I'm not a freaking dwarf, do I look like a dwarf, I mean, I do have beard, but my skin is GREEN ffs.
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2-23-2007 @ 1:39PM
Kahja said...
Female gnome rogues look like they are in a three point stance waiting to rush the QB.
That's only when they are just standing there though.
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2-23-2007 @ 1:42PM
Uncle Vinny said...
I don't play a rogue, I just try to stay away from them... so I can't say I've noticed any stealth animation changes. But one new animation style I've noticed is the "warping" step that some ethereal-type mobs in Netherstorm have. They are easy to kill, but that Michael Jackson-style move is spooky!
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5-15-2007 @ 9:24AM
Danny said...
yea i played in the ptr and the old stealths were back. but never know if they will bring them back or just make better ones, even though the old ones were the best.
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