Changes to Smite Evil

[Chronotrip]

I looked around and didn't see this any where else, sorry if there is already a post about this.

Smite Evil has been changed so that the animation looks pretty much just like Cleave, which is Kinda weak considering they just copied another animation rather than coming up with a new one. It also seems to be bugged ( at least I hope its a bug and not working as intended) and is breaking your attack chains like cleave used to(supposedly fixed but I don't use cleave so meh), thus lowering your dps. Maybe I am wrong about this but it looked that way to me. The addition of a shining ray of light is pretty cool and I hope that is kept but the current animation is GAWD awful, please change it back to looking like a normal attack(but with the rays of light still there) or something else that does not look as bad (maybe a jump and then Slam down on them?) and please address the attack chain breaking issue.

If I am right and this is breaking the attack chain, I can't imagine why other Pallys have not all ready started to scream bloody murder so I will not be surprised if it is just a weird animation. Also it seamed to be randomly targeting mobs within range rather than doing it on the mobs that I have hard targeted. I only played around with it for a bit as my Pally is only lvl 13 and not a high priority right now.

If Smite Evil IS in fact bugged and randomly targeting any mob that is around you and more importantly, breaking your attack chain, then this is a SERIOUS problem that needs to be fixed ASAP. While we are on the subject it really looks like trip and Stunning Blow are breaking the attack chain as well, If they ARE and its not just some weird animation thing or something, then I REALLY hope that they are not working as intended, and that they will be fixed soon,otherwise there usefulness is GREATLY reduced.

[Junts]

Helpful: Exalted smites don't do this.

[elujin]

Helpful: Exalted smites don't do this.

mebey they knew it was buggy and didn't add it to exalted i do hope exalted gets a fixed animation soon

[Chronotrip]

Helpful: Exalted smites don't do this.

Really!?! Sweet, yeah I was doin some Favor runs on other servers for TP and I made a WF pally with Adamen body because you can run through Korthos and WW for fast favor and the DR is super Beast mode at lower lvls. SO my pallys Exalted smite is unchanged? I guess I will find out as soon as the servers are back up lol.

Still it sucks about Trip and Stunning Blow, and I would assume Sunder and all other melee tactics as well. Though I still say that it could be a animation bug like the Half Orc run speed thing that just made them LOOK like they ran slower if you didn't swing your weapons.

[Bear_Warrior]

So, just to be clear. Exalted Smite is NOT broken, it just doesn't have a special animation like smite evil?

I was avoiding biulding up the smite thing because I was under the impression that no animation indicated that it was broken...

If the case is that it is not broke then I am going to redo my pally's enhancements asap!