Partially Used: Turn undead

I love the new rendition of turning. The effect is excellent, and the not having to drop the shield to equip a holysymbol is great. The ability feels very very useful again.

Two minor ascetic suggestions Activating turn... I kinda miss the character doing the 'spell casting/chanting' thing while doing it. I like how the character actually does say "I call upon yadayada...", but I think the gesturing/chanting effect would work very well along with that too.

Death by turning... could undead outright killed by a turn get that white wispy vfx with the "roawwrush!" sound, like creatures killed by wail/finger/slay/soulreaver-kills get? I think that would add a very impessive effect to the gameplay.

I agree with the chanting/casting animation. Would be cool.

For the undead who are destroyed outright, I think a visual that shows them being "blasted apart" would be even better than the whispy soul one. I think it already does that, though, no?

No, they just fall down dead. The only VFX is the diety specific symbol circle around the cleric

Ah... so maybe the VFX that you get from the Sunburst spell when it nukes an undead? Blasts them to pieces, it does

That'd work too. I just thought it'd be neat if there was something other than they just fall down dead... er... deader dead.

Having just experienced the new undead turning effects myself, I gotta say I agree that it needs a little more pizazz. I do like the deity-specific symbols effect though.

I think the new effects/behavior are an enormous improvement over poor Xephod (Cleric of Ragnor) having to give up his shield and wave around a Prizimal Medallion in order to dominate skeletons! Some extra fireworks would be icing on the cake.

Oh yeah, I definitely prefer not having to awkwardly whip out the deity medallion (I always kinda imagined my PCs saying 'Erm, hold on just a minute while I find my... there we are... OK, I call up my deity...'). But I think it'd have a bit more 'effect' if your PC still did the little 'chanting' motion, or at least make the skellies go *boom! whoosh!* a little. Ya know?

The upcoming hak update will restore the "casting" sequence. I'll see about some sort of visual effect on undead that are destroyed.

Lock and move since the "casting" animation was put back in?