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Frost Lich Jaina's water elementals have KFT icons

I was messing around with a friend and I noticed the water elementals that come from Frost Lich Jaina's battlecry and hero power have the KFT icon in their background.

Does this mean that they are coded to be different, or what?

Link: https://imgur.com/a/cEoxB

Hadidjah

Posted 8 years, 4 months ago (Source)

I think the actual reason is that the jumping out of the board animation Jaina's Water Elementals do when you summon them is tied to the minion itself and not the hero power. That means that if you bounce one of the special Elementals and play it from your hand, it'll do the animation.

This is the actual reason, yeah - normally everything just goes in one big spell asset and would have been hooked up to Jaina so she could summon a vanilla Water Elemental with her own animation, but because she already has so many different components to her Hero Power (from an FX/animation perspective, I mean), this is one of the rare cases where we had to hook the animation up directly to the token instead. It's a goofy limitation, but so is most of game dev. :P

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    <div class="md"><p>I think the actual reason is that the jumping out of the board animation Jaina's Water Elementals do when you summon them is tied to the minion itself and not the hero power. That means that if you bounce one of the special Elementals and play it from your hand, it'll do the animation.</p>
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<div class="md"><p>This is the actual reason, yeah - normally everything just goes in one big spell asset and would have been hooked up to Jaina so she could summon a vanilla Water Elemental with her own animation, but because she already has so many different components to her Hero Power (from an FX/animation perspective, I mean), this is one of the rare cases where we had to hook the animation up directly to the token instead.  It's a goofy limitation, but so is most of game dev. :P</p>
</div> (<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/hearthstone/comments/6y1mo3/frost_lich_jainas_water_elementals_have_kft_icons/dmlu1ld">Hadidjah</a>)
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