they have destroyed the specc as a whole from 2017 till now. Nothing they have done has made them fun to play.
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They ruined Shadow priest in Legion. I think at core the current Sp design is fine, I like it. A tweak here and there and itâd be fine.
But would I take this over BFA or god-forbid Legion? hell yes.
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dots must be instant and hate channeling mind sear or flay.
mind flay/sear auto changing by number of enemies were better for me at least.
mind flay/sear could spread dots to nearby enemies of target. or shadow crash.
but im still telling sp needs aoe skill like earthquake.
ground effect if you use mind sear your dots spread to others . costs insanity
Searing Nightmare should be baseline and should absolutely not require Mind Sear to be cast. Not having an AoE spender baseline in a builder-spender class is terrible design.
Give us more viable legendaries. Shadowflame Prism in conjunction with Searing Nightmare feels so bad. Shadows AoE rotation is already a mess, so I think a strong, passive legendary would be good. Something like Glacial Fragments for frost mage or Primordial Arcanic Pulsar for balance druids.
Give us 8 seconds of Voidform for every X Insanity spent or every X Insanity spent causes shadows to crash down from the Void, dealing X damage to 8 mobs.
Please just give us something else than Prism for AoE. Itâs so counter-intuitive with Searing Nightmare
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Yeah, yeahâŚ9.2
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my point proven like any other class has an instant aoe without having to use a other spell. shadow like feels like a 2010 beta specc at the current momment.
this would make the fun play style come back but blizzard wont do it.
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Still dont see a fix for them
It does
But if you try to use discipline in dungeons which is great for aoe and some passive healing, you get kicked or told to go shadow.
Le sigh.
It must be nice going into 9.1.5 in the current state with the aoe cap removal for everyone /s
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Itâs not the shadow we know anymore, Itâs just spec to apply 2 dots and feel useless in aoe fights and holy priest is a fiesta. Iâm still waiting for the remake to happen that blizzard gets paid for in 9.2. were is our aoe?
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They gave your Psychic Link (Talent) a 10% buff now you almost not feel terrible.
The only way they could make it compete in that row is if they made it generate insanity and buffed its damage more, otherwise no one will ever take it over AS or SCrash ever.
Besides the reason people took that talent in 9.0 was due to Talbadar which buffed mind blast. 10% is pretty bad imo.
Both disc and shadow are so off putting for m+ .
Lack of aoe .
Terrible rotations even with unfurling and damnation .
The shadowy apparitions are dunno what the hell are those .
I wanna see a rework for this class either iâm never going to touch it again .
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I think it could be improved a lot by making the following changes:
- Searing nightmare generates up to 5 shadowy apparitions which deal damage and generate insanity. This would help with the fact that mind sear canât generate enough insanity or damage in small packs.
- Make searing nightmare baseline.
- Replace misery with a talent that changes searing nightmare to apply no damage or shadows, but applies vampiric touch along with the shadow word pain it already applies. This would make psychic link and auspicious spirits more viable and massively cut down on ramp up time.
- For the talent where searing nightmare used to be, make it a talent where searing nightmare refreshes the duration of mind sear, so you donât have to keep recasting mind sear or worrying about the GCD from searing nightmare delaying the mind sear cast.
Can see more about it in my post: My suggested Shadow Priest changes for 9.1.5
yeah in some topics i agree in some i donât they just need to rethink the class completely and do away with the void
this would be better but with a point and click like blizzard activates passive mind sear while channeling mind sear during searing night mare.
would be good but to op. I think something blizzard needs to do is check out for example frost mage is over tuned with ice lance doing 1mil damage, Shadow has like no 1 spell combo that other classes has because main focus of blizzard isnât there when it comes to making classes fun to play. Shadow now feels less fun in any current cleave fight now than it did before void form. They need to rethink their classes and make spells that are fun again come back being fun to use. They need To not use like a clunky Talent system choices for cleave which are like the whole talent row for lvl 30 in shadow priest talent choice like the worst expack of shadow priest In my own opinion. Yes yet i play hoping they strike gold again making my specc and class fun.
The Talent system needs to be dealt with or removed baked in to passives you gain while lvling instead. My own opinion.
In the post I linked I explained it a bit more - searing nightmare could have its own unique type of shadowy apparitions, maybe give them a different name and look, then those specific shadows can be tuned so it wonât be too op, and leave the other shadows as they are. This way they can have the freedom to tune shadow priests smaller pack damage without affecting the bigger pulls damage too much.
shadow needs a brand new spell sort of blizzard or rain of fire or hell fire like.