I'm not sure if this is intended or not, but when Blade Barrier activates, my character shouts. Then she proceeds to shout instead of swing her sword for every attack I do while BB is active, so that I am apparently killing my opponents with the power of my voice.

Please take the shout spam out of Blade Barrier, it really doesn't need an animation, it's as close to passive as anything can be without actually being passive, and I'd like to see myself swinging my sword for attacks again. Am I the only one who feels this way?

I have no idea, never seen this before.

In Beta, the shout animation came from Abominations Might, not Blade Barrier. You might want to spec out of Abominations Might to get rid of the shout animation :)

Edit: Just noticed that you actually do not have AM. They must've added the annoying animation to BB as well. Yuck. After all that complaining we did and they spread it around? Yuck.

And it's not even just when BB is applied, it's any action you take while BB is active. So, so annoying. Please change this Blizzard, I don't want to attack my enemies with shouts. :(

Yea, I noticed this too, its because every time you use an ability I think it checks to see if you have no blood runes, and if you don't then it does the animation and refreshes the buff.

Sort of annoying, wish they'd fix it.

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And it's not even just when BB is applied, it's any action you take while BB is active. So, so annoying. Please change this Blizzard, I don't want to attack my enemies with shouts. :(

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I noticed this but I couldn't figure out what was triggering it since it happened so often.

Mystery solved: Everything is triggering it. >_< WTB melee animations.

This is driving me absolutely nuts, please fix.

This sounds hot.

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if you didn't want to be a warcry barb you shouldn't have rolled one.

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You know if they renamed the class banshee instead of Death Knight I might be okay with this.

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if you didn't want to be a warcry barb you shouldn't have rolled one.

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Your sig makes my brain hurt.

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Your sig makes my brain hurt.

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Oh dear, I just noticed that.

Confirming it's Blade Barrier doing the shout.
And yea, it does seem pointless.

Blizzard, is possible to just put up an animation only if the buff gained is new. It would solve a lot of problems if we only had the animation after it falls off. If we can get that working, can we get Retaliation's spining sword graphic back?

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Confirming it's Blade Barrier doing the shout.
And yea, it does seem pointless.

Blizzard, is possible to just put up an animation only if the buff gained is new. It would solve a lot of problems if we only had the animation after it falls off. If we can get that working, can we get Retaliation's spining sword graphic back?

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The problem seems to be that whenever you use an ability, the game checks if any blood runes are currently active. If none are, then your toon shouts. If BB is active but blood runes are active, then you don't. I'd honestly just rather no associated animation.

The last time I tanked anything was back in beta, so my memory is a little fuzzy on this, but I think I remember seeing what you're describing here in terms of seeing the damn shout ALL THE TIME. Very annoying, but I usually had more important things to watch than my character when tanking. =P And since I almost always respecced to a dps build when I wasn't tanking (<3 1cp respecs) I didn't see this issue while soloing when I could have better tested it.

Some history: BB used to require ALL runes to be down instead of just blood runes down to activate it. That probably explains the constant animations we're seeing now. However, if it's being refreshed after every ability and not just when our last blood rune goes down, I'd say that's a bug, and solving that, while making BB a little harder to keep up if you're bad about keeping your blood runes on cooldown, would probably reduce the frequency of the animation by a considerable amount.

Yeah, I know I have more important things to watch, lol, but it still bothers me, I guess I'm just OCD or something. I don't respec when questing with my buddies so I have to watch it then too, which makes me cry.

But but but...I like my victory shout when I successfully mine some cobalt. You know how hard that stuff is to find right now?

I will say when tanking I do a ridiculous amount of that arms-wide-open, screaming animation than necessary.

I never notice this, All I do when I tank is stare at my damn actionbar :P