Aw... Fossilize Animation Changed.

I was dusting off my Stone / Sonic troller and found that the animation has changed. It used to be that the mob would freeze in place with its arms in the air and the blank stare facing the sky. Now when I use Fossilize, they stand there and bob around like they're stunned.

That makes me sad.

Was there a patch today?

I swore last night my Earth/Psi dom was still seeing the looking-at-sky-trapped-in-rock animation.

Lewis

Sounds like an animation bug.

same with entangle, it uses the stun emote

All holds seem to be doing this..Tried with my Fire Dom Char hits with the initial cloud then disappears..No more choking animation..My Earth Controller target do the stun animation and bobble around in the stone trap..I think its a bug as no rednames have mentioned it but it was around before today's update as I started noticing the lack of char choking Sunday?

My illusion/cold got the same thing with blind as well.

Been bugging this since it popped up in closed beta, nothing as of yet.

Also of note, my SG mates fossilize lost its customization with this patch and has been reverted to the original FX.

I think it's the "frozen in stone with your arms in the air" emote that's busted. I have Lockdown +2 hold in Fossilize, and the proc is an electric hold, for whatever reason. Anyway, if the proc doesn't fire, the mob stands there doing the "stunned" animation (which looks really weird when they're encased in stone). When the proc lands, the mob shakes from the electricity in the +hold proc.

I think many/most of the "Hold" animations are broken. I was playing one of my Plant controllers, and noticed the same thing - Held = stunned animation.

I'm no code monkey, but how do they manage to break this kind of stuff?

Gremlins?

I PM'ed someone going to Hero Con to ask the Devs if this bug is going to be fixed. I don't like my held foes looking like they are stunned. I haven't heard back, though.