As a Shadow Priest main, this tier set feels a bit disconnected from Voidweaver gameplay.
The 2-piece bonus sounds good on paper, but Tentacle Slam is primarily a utility button used for DoT spreading and maintaining Voidweaver interactions. Even with 100% increased damage, it doesn’t feel like a particularly exciting focal point for a tier set.
The 4-piece is even more confusing. Making Vampiric Touch instant after Tentacle Slam is nice, but in current Voidweaver gameplay we’re already casting Vampiric Touch less often because Tentacle Slam handles much of our DoT application, especially in dungeons.
When I think of Voidweaver, I think of Void Blast, Madness, Entropic Rift, and Shadowy Apparitions—not Tentacle Slam into Vampiric Touch.
The set may end up being numerically strong, especially because of the enhanced Apparitions, but from a gameplay perspective it feels more like a “Tentacle Slam tier” than a “Voidweaver tier.”
I think they are focusing on aoe more than ST. I think they are making Archon stronger.
Yet to see a build but I think Mind blast is going to be secondary and we are focusing on shadow crash more.
I think blizzard wants to remove PL since its a thing that doesn’t work so i think its spirits builds and anything that buffs over time damage. But yet to see peoples builds will judge it when season 2 comes.
I hope archon is the goat in season 2 am tired of multi dotting shadow word pain 40+ adds.
I think voidweaver will be as usual.
Only diffrence we will use [Vampiric Touch] before using shadow crash twice
I hope they change 4 set so it stacks two times instead.
Will probably not end so well with this iteration of shadow.
Its to the point were I think blizzard lost all competence about priest as a core.
6 talents of fade no mobility
damage taken is like way more than it should be.
mentality of having to take Twin priestess as a priest build and it does nothing for the priest other than buff an random target with it.
Much rather have hero or a combat ress reason to pick shadow in season 2 is down to rng luck joke at the current moment.
Will look forward towards the Waterdown version of shadow with a grin.
Shadow Went from Benediction respect to a mancave since after shadowlands ended.
Feels like the devs dislikes priest 200%
will be fun having to do everything with pain then slam then VT slam VT and then you can start your damage this feels like headache game play nightmare waiting to happen.
Still don’t get why blizzard don’t check against other classes how much shadow needs to do before it can pump VS other classes that press everything instant cast and pump in 1 sec.
This will be the last game i buy in epic version if this is their joke of tier set.