So whatever happened to the old Storm Kick animation? Was it deleted? Does it still exist in a file?

When your opinion centers around denying content for others just to save you a very minor inconvenience, deal with the fact that others might express their opinion that you're being selfish. I dare say I understand what this forum is a lot better than you do... If you can't deal with people's reactions to your opinions, perhaps you should keep them to yourself. I know, it's a real horrible and disappointing shock that not everyone agrees with you. You'll adjust.

I do agree that most are worthless, but I wouldn't argue against seeing more of them. A lot of them are good "flavor" powers, even if they are fluff. The idea has been put forward before, and I'm all for it, of adding a "squelch" filter that you can set up to auto-delete recipe, enhancement, etc drops that you feel are worthless. It wouldn't affect the drop rate one bit, just save the player the trouble of deleting them to make room.

Mean while.... back on topic...

I'm for alt animations. that seems the easiest way to get them back in.

They could add those crane kick and storm kick animations but mantaining number as they are now, damage, animation time...
That would be awesome. Loved those animations so much in the past!

As a long-time fan of various fighting games, and martial arts manga/anime in the vein of Hokuto no Ken, my first (and still main) toon was a MA/SR scrapper -- who took the original version of Storm Kick, and Flurry, as soon as he could. The only thing about the original SK that bugged me was waiting for the long animation to finish when I rolled a miss. Flurry, on the other hand, was respec'd away pretty quickly for the reasons we're all familiar with.

Even if the devs never saw fit to give either or both of these powers a short cone AoE (like Shadow Maul), I always thought that there's one change that could make me happy with them. Give each an alternate, very brief, single-swing-and-a-miss animation that plays whenever either power rolls a miss. Roll a miss, you get this short-duration miss animation; roll a hit, you get the normal multi-strike animation. Minimizes the amount of time wasted waiting for your toon to finish doing no damage, and makes your toon look a little less foolish by preventing him from flailing wildly at empty air.

--Chris

It could be an alt animation for flurry.....

Ah, I loved this animation. I had a cool Martial Arts character I used to love, a Scrapper with a batmanish theme called Shadowing.

I deleted him after this animation got deleted. I was ANGRY about the change. Regret it mainly because it was a cool name and I would had loved to retain it. Last time I attempted to get it, it was taken on all servers.

On similar note: I also used to play an Ice/Axe tanker that I didnt delete but stopped playing entirely the day they "nerfed" knockback. These two actions taken by myself are reasons why I respect the Cottage Rule so much.

Anyways, back to Storm Kick. For a long time, after the change, 5th Column was still using it. I am not sure if they still do. Not sure if the Council also keept using it since they are technically newer critters (not just a rename of the old, although a lot of copy pasting was involved.)