In pve and pvp? Do you thibk its worth gearing a shadow priest in DF?
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Can’t really talk about PvP as I have not yet engaged in it.
But in PvE I think shadow is a lot of fun. I mostly play holy now, but I did play a fair bit of M+ and raid encounters with shadow. I think the general playstyle is a lot more fun than in Shadowlands, it actually feels good to play.
It felt a bit weak at first (Especially since it looked a lot stronger in the Beta) but it got a huge buff in the patch today.
Yes, I enjoy it in PvP (mainly BGs)
In PvP you can build for Dots and Direct damage(which was buffed this week) as well, both having it’s ups and downs, the main problem is that interrupts are basically stuns against you if they land on your shadow casts, but Mind Flay is an excellent baiting tool for that.
The melee heavy zug zug meta also doesnt help much, there will be most likely always somebody in your face…
On the other hand, fully talented out Mindgames with Dark Ascension (which also has next to 0 cd if you take Driven to Madness PvP talent) hits like a truck, SWD still hits hard after the nerf (Deathspeaker+ Pain of Death) and despite the nerf Idol of Y’shaarj is still a solid choice, you have a Stun, Fear, Silence , Horrify (Vampiric Touch dispelled), and you can easily get Improved Mass Dispel which lets you pop those pesky paladins or mages out of their safe havens in a blink of an eye(and with the lowered CD you can even use it to dispel negative effects from your allies), hell, you can even get Power Word Life in the Priest Tree which heals for 60k + without crit on a low hp (below 35%) ally, even yourself, as an instant cast heal.
Playstyle wise, its the funniest its been since cataclysm.
(We did also have legion emerald nightmare where it was alot of fun)
However its not rly fully complete theres still some critic for it to deal with before its cemented.
If you enjoy it, play it, pve balance aint that far apart overall somethings top snd bottom sure, but most of em arent miles behind for sure.
I swapped to evoker, but am now coming back to shadow tbh lol
For pve I feel like at the moment we are a bit weak also we have the problem that significant part of our aoe is coming from single spell mind sear which relies on the fact that mobs stack together but many times in dungeons mobs are static casters who don’t move even on interrupt making mind sear damage weaker since mobs are not grouped together which feels bad.
Maybe the buffs will help with this since they have a affect on psychic link, making it a good secondary source of aoe damage. For our single target might improve upon buffs coming soon making us middle of the pack instead bottom in raids terms of dps, but it seems that we will be always weak on movement heavy fights.
its big fun to me atm, and buffs now make it viable in pve too.
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