Floating spell notes removed with gu57?

[isest]

<p>Looks like the particle update took out our floating spell notes, has anyone else seen this, and is there a work aroung getting it back?</p>

[Ephigy]

<p>They're gone, and yes it's "working as intended".</p><p>Sadly SOE has castrated all combat and spell animations in this GU.  I seriously hope they see the error of their ways in the GU, and just roll it back.</p>

[Morghus]

<p><cite>Ephigy@Permafrost wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>They're gone, and yes it's "working as intended".</p><p>Sadly SOE has castrated all combat and spell animations in this GU.  I seriously hope they see the error of their ways in the GU, and just roll it back.</p></blockquote><p>That's odd, I saw them today during a raid.</p>

[Aaramis]

<p>Only looked at the new effects very briefly last night (was online for about 30min), so I didn't catch the floating spell notes being removed (if they were).  I did, however, re-cast all of my maintained buffs just to see what the visuals were now, and they looked really good.  Very impressive.  Shame they'll only ever be cast when you upgrade a tier and will otherwise never see them :/</p><p>As for  the combat spells / CAs, the changes were interesting.  I'll mourn the loss of the shockwave effect from the Shrill line (which always looked FAR more impressive than the damage numbers it provided, heh), but some of the others looked really nice.  Eli's and Tap Essence now have much better visuals, and the Bump + Night Strike combo looks pretty cool.  Invisibility is pretty much invisibility now, it was nice.</p><p>So ultimately, no real complaints from me on the visuals.  If anything, I'd have to give props to the devs on the Bard visual changes.</p>

[Ephigy]

<p><cite>Morghus wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Ephigy@Permafrost wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>They're gone, and yes it's "working as intended".</p><p>Sadly SOE has castrated all combat and spell animations in this GU.  I seriously hope they see the error of their ways in the GU, and just roll it back.</p></blockquote><p>That's odd, I saw them today during a raid.</p></blockquote><p>I'd suggest checking again, cause they are gone for sure.</p>

[isest]

<p><cite>Ephigy@Permafrost wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Morghus wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Ephigy@Permafrost wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>They're gone, and yes it's "working as intended".</p><p>Sadly SOE has castrated all combat and spell animations in this GU.  I seriously hope they see the error of their ways in the GU, and just roll it back.</p></blockquote><p>That's odd, I saw them today during a raid.</p></blockquote><p>I'd suggest checking again, cause they are gone for sure.</p></blockquote><p>Funny thing is I can not see them on myself, however if I turn up particle effects all the way and look at my group membmers, sometimes I can see tiny little blue notes flowing around them, that is very tiny. OH and my buff spells all are masters. </p>

[Eugam]

<p>I can see them, but only the blue ones. Just cant play it with sounds on stealth, ranged CA and the mohooo, mohoo sounds on the debuff <img src="/smilies/69934afc394145350659cd7add244ca9.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p>

[Kinsin]

<p>I don't know how you can simply say it's working as intended. My bro plays a dirge I play a troub. The dirge still has his particle effect while the troub doesn't and if I am in his group and have on my HP reg song it will take his notes away. I would say that no, this isn't working as it should be.</p>

[TheSpin]

They are going to be changing the fun spells a bit. Maybe they will give you an opportunity to get your notes back. Personally I absolutely hated having to constantly see the notes around my character. It's distracting. Plus the spam on the temp buffs, CoB and PoM are probably the number one reason they changed spells gamewide.