Well for dragonflight maybe shadow aoe can meme with Holy Nova https://www.wowhead.com/beta/talent-calc/priest/shadow/BQREQVCGhURUlCAQIBBAOVRWREUQEYBCCwVBA
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I find it funny even a streamer says we should remove searing nightmare and bring back cascade
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well he has a point with that cascade was the best aoe ability shadow had and searing nightmare / dotting feels like lack lusting.
I Wonder why blizzard arenât even adding it back when so many likes that ability. This new talent system wont make shadow any better just more stress on top of the stress, but without an aoe baseline.
Like on big aoe pulls shaow is gonna be gimped once more for two years. Till the next expack.
Currently, the damnation talent applies all 3 Dots to a single target. As a alternative, could this spell also be a shadow priest buff that then when used, empowers an ability like halo, making it instant and applying all 3 dots to nearby targets?
Sort of like how warlocks had soul burn to empower seed of corruption?
WE DID IT took them whole expack to buff us but finally.-
but i wish they removed Searing nightmare and brought back Cascade.
Theyâre looking into it for 10.0. And this is the 2 blue weâve got saying that
We donât know what theyâre doing yet, but all I can say is that, they usually donât add/remove spells mid expansion, unless itâs an extremely dire situation
Small buff nothing major, We still stuck casting SN and Mind Sear which is the most boring aoe in game at the momment. They should bring back wod shadow with Cascade and Halo. Its a bit unfair holy has it Disc has it but not Shadow.
If searing nightmare visually looked more like void eruption I might just feel better about the whole thing 
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Hereâs hoping they bring back cascade Halo and remove Searing Nightmare.
Hope they listen to shadow priest community now.
I hope they do so too 
4 years later still searing booooore meare. Still doing less aoe and singel target than a BM.
A problem with shadow priest is that whenever we are in void form, we have to choose between using DP or using VB. VB is always the better option, and so often we end up on overcapping insanity which feels terrible in general.
I think we need another insanity spender for AoE that isnât searing nightmare.
A common opinion here is that we should bring back cascade; I agree. Cascade was a button that used to feel so amazing to press, and the animation was awesome too. I think it could act in a different way to what it did in the past.
It used to be on a cooldown, and youâd just fire and forget it, but now i think they could make it an insanity spender (quite a lot of insanity), and make it spread your DoTs that you currently have active on your target.
This would bring power back into the DoTs, and it would make dumping into devouring plague a bit more rewarding. We could even have talent nodes that modify cascade:
- If cascade spreads DoTs to a target already affected by DoTs, release a shadowy apparition OR make the DoTs do x% more dmg OR tick x% faster. I believe this will open the option for further enhancing apparition builds or bring power back to the DoTs.
This ability could bring choice in an AoE rotation whereby we choose whether we want to stack another DP onto the single target before spreading the stronger DoTs, or whether we want to get cascade going as fast as possible before spreading a stronger DP.
Although i think bringing back cascade would be a great idea, we could also just modify shadow crash into a spender rather than just have it as a âfire and forgetâ as it is right now. We could keep it how it is, then have a talent node to change it into a spender.
As much as I like the lore of Shadow Priest, the gameplay is absolutely horrible.
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Single target is horribly boring without cooldowns.
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AoE is a clunkfest of clipping spells and overcapping resources, especially notorious during high Haste moments.
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Itâs the only spec that needs a talent to be able to do AoE damage. EDIT: Sorry Assa Rogue
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Legendaries are garbage and they seem to be coming back⌠Maybe itâs just me but I absolutely hate Shadowflame Prism legendary and I would much rather have a leggo that actually interacts with the whole kit, not with a 1 minute pet.
Channeled spells need to be either removed (better imo) or reworked so you can at least move, like Arcane Mage with Slipstream talent.
Voidform is really cool, the problem is the cooldowns donât match, Void Eruption being 1.5 min and PI 2 min, and the duration is too long.
I would preffer shorter duration but low cooldown voidforms with a more bursty profile.
They need to buff our single target dot Shadow Word pain it deals less damage than Holy priests. Canât they give us a pet instead that deals aoe like our pet staying up as warlock and hunter pets permanently.
Thatâs what spriest had in BFA but many people complained about void form so we got SN instead.
Yes, but we have one DPS spec to work with, itâs fair if one of 3 rogue DPS specs specialises in single target.
If it wasnât for the all the people already successfully playing Disc, Iâd suggest revamping one of the healing specs into a holy dps spec. Originally Disc was what Iâd consider the âpriest treeâ youâd mix into the other specs.
shadow is in a worse state than the game it self blizzard needs to walk away from mind sear and searing nightmare and shadow crash and void form. like we deal no damage in a aoe fight. No Joke Iâm Disappointed. This buff was nothing⌠Once again another quick fix to fix nothing.
Make Mind blast when proc on a target afflicted with Vampiric Touch spread Vampiric Touch on the nearby enemies-
They could make the four set we got now stay also add mindbender as a permanent pet that deals aoe damage each time you deal damage with instant mind blast⌠just steal the idea from BM hunters beast cleave, also add back cascade easy to fix this specc so it can be played without it back lash.
This season tanks just runs pulls everything what is the actually point of mind sear if i have to stand still when heâs miles away from me.
Half our talents are dead and dragon lands just makes it worse. Now we lose our sustain vampiric Embrace and dispersion.
Does the dev team hate shadow? Im still waiting for something you can do better than this. We are the only class in game that has no damage still.
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how shadow is in shadowlands.
Dev team class balance.
I still donât get the hate towards VF, the only drawback it get is that void eruption is tied to it thus giving it a cast time and gcd, so the easy fix here would be to make void eruption a standalone aoe spender, then VF can be instant and off gcd. Besides without it weâll never get picked for any M+ grps - Burst is the meta now and itâs here to stay! Sustained damage died the day M+ became a thing, so plz donât ask them to return us to it
M+ should be removed with VF. Change my mind!