Hi,
this is not about fair or balanced, just what i’d personally would like to see for Shadow Priests. There will be inherent flaws and (alot) of things i didn’t think of which will make my ideas hard or even impossible to realize.
I don’t expect Blizzard to sway from Voidform or S2M since they put so much (or so less, depends) effort into it until now.
First off, Baselines (new or changed):
- Shadow Word: Void or just 2 charges of Mind Blast for fluidity and not interfering with Void Bolt coming of CD (given that Void Bolt stays)
- Lingering Insanity - Fluidity, but not scaling linearly, starting high and gaining less whith high VF Stacks
-Movement ability: Feathers from Disc - Interrupt on 30sec CD
- SW: Death in its current BFA Form as an Execute with the HP Penalty when not killing
- VF Instant Cast, like the PVP Talent
General Changes:
- Voidform should be able to use situational, like, i want to stay as long as possible in VF for high Haste Stacks vs. i want to use, say, an ability that COSTS insanity and does high instant/dot damage, changeable and influenced by talent(s),
so maybe it could give access to 2 abilities where one generates and one costs insanity. - On the other hand i’d really like to see a recognizable change in haste while in Voidform, faster casts are really fun to me (if you want to stay in VF that is, see above). So maybe a change for gaining VF Stacks also not linearly may help, get more haste at the beginning but less with higher stacks (modified with a talent that corresponds to S2M or is incorporated into S2M where you gain more on higher VF Stacks). Also, VF at 75 Insanity.
Talents ( not mentioned = stay)
- 1st Row: Shadowy Insight: Not resetting CD of Mindblast but a Proc to Amplify certain Abilities, like Ele Shaman Surge of Power,
Scrap: Shadow Word: Void (Baseline) - 2nd Row: /
- 3rd Row: /
- 4th Row: Scrap: Last Word, Mind Bomb: Make it a Mass Stun, like Capacitator Totem
- 5th Row: Scrap: Auspicious Spirits: boring, just a matter of crit level, Death and Madness: even changes do not go well with my wish of the BFA version of SW:Death
- 6th Row: Scrap: Lingering Insanity (Baseline), maybe someone would pick Void Torrent then…
- 7th Row: Scrap: Legacy of the Void, Surrender to Madness: lasts until current VF ends
New Talents (no positioning in Rows):
Talent#1: Consume all dots from targets surrounding your current target to apply a super dot/high dmg spell
Talent#2: Modifies how and when you get VF Stacks and how much haste they give (see above)
Talent#3: Mind Spike or similar
Talent#4: Charm ability where a mindcontrolled Target does Damage to other targets and you get a specific ability based on the charmed target (categorized like hunter pets)
Talent#5: Cast while moving after fully channeling a Mind Sear/Mind Flay for x Seconds
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Yeah, i think i’d like to play that Shadow Priest (even with VF)… i’m not saying it will work this way out but maybe i can help to some constructive ideas - what are yours?