Shattered Kingdoms

It won't affect me at all. I will simply substitute the old echo for the new echo(es). It will, however, affect anyone that doesn't use a client or isn't familiar with how to script with their client. With the amount of clutter and scroll spam already associated with combat, I don't think the game needs three or four different casting echoes to add to the confusion.

I dunno, I almost feel like it will be easier to figure out what's going on by the different echoes, not more difficult.

However, I think that it will look silly if hellions get "xx begins to pray."

Copy paste old script, change one word and poof done.....

What part of it won't affect me didn't you understand?

Not sure how having multiple echoes that all boil down to, 'Hey, this guy is casting a spell', will make things easier to figure out in the middle of combat scroll. I don't think it will be a game breaker either way, but I do prefer a single echo for spell casting.

Well, lets say you don't know everyone on a raid team. You can now tell the difference from a sorcerer and a priest.

Granted. However, most players would already know this from the spells being cast. That said, I do like that it would distinguish one caster from another - similar to how you can tell a swashbuckler from a mercenary.

I would prefer the change come on spell completion rather than spell cast, though - similar to what Yuarheer suggested.

Yeah, but you have to wait until the spell has been cast. Here you find out a round or two earlier.

There is little you can do to interrupt most spell casts, so it won't matter much either way. It seems I am in the minority on this particular change, so I won't continue to argue against a change that most people seem to want.

I will make scripts available after the next update for any other curmudgeons (like myself) that like the current system/echo.

I don't think this needed to be coded. I do think it should be expressed through roleplay.