On spriest in arena it’s just non stop interrupt and stun. Maybe 1 out of 4 casts go off. Melee interrupt needs a 30 sec cd at least, 15 sec is ridiculous.
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If they’re that quick to interrupt and do it that often, then have you perhaps tried faking casts?
If you know they’re coming then it shouldn’t be so hard to fake, right?
Isn´t OP the same DH who praised the gear upgrades?
Seems like your priest is lacking some gear. Fortunately for you, it´s something you can fix and seems like you enjoy to do! Hit some solo shuffle and upgrade that unchained gear to the current standards. Now you can survive a tad bit longer to get a cast out.
EDIT: I love CheckPvP
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Remove your link or I will report you. Linking characters to others on the forums is against the Code of Conduct.
All he did was compare that topic to this topic. It’s not like he linked your armory, he just linked a topic which turned out to be relevant to what he wanted to say.
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Your priest is only ~258 PvP iLvl, no wonder you don’t have a chance to cast anything. You’re probably dead before a 15 sec interrupt comes off CD!
Also quite often as a caster you must communicate with your partner to request peels when you are in a tricky situation. It’s no good trying to face tank 2 melee (and possibly a tank, since you seem to like tank shuffles) - you need your team mates to help peel them off.
I will also be waiting for more demands to balance spec’s around solo shuffle, the content where most dps will just zugzug big deeps buttons instead of… doing all the… other stuff.
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I’m well beyond that ilvl on my priest and I can barely cast anything when I’m getting focused as shadow. It’s just constant interrupts, stuns, disorients and so forth and by the time they’ve cycled them all the first ones are coming back off CD again.
It was a mistake to give healers an interrupt.
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This problem is a big part of why I hate the fact that they design the classes for PvE first, and PvP second. In a normal PvP game, where designers don’t need to care about the impact on PvE combat, it’d be a simple thing to keep the “mind game”-component of interrupt vs. hard casting by just adjusting the cast times to fit PvP combat.
For example, making the pace faster for all hard casts by cutting down cast times for everyone, would still keep that vital component in the PvP design of trying to cast vs. trying to interrupt, yet at the same time helping the casters.
But because quick hard casts doesn’t fit PvE as much as it does in PvP, they don’t do such designs.
And because having big differences between bursts and sustained fits better in PvE, it has meant we’ve had burst-centric PvP designs for a really long time despite PvPers complaining about weak sustained for all of that time.
Although, to be clear, casters dominates quite often. Despite interrupts. Despite psuedo-interrupts. Casters still tend to dominate often. It’s because with coordination, a viable comp can make up for those weaknesses and “enable” a wizard, while a comp that doesn’t count as viable will have a much harder time to “enable” a wizard.
But that’s with these slower hard casts in the designs, and big bursts.
Doesn’t really fit solo shuffle that great as things are now though, but rating should increase the average rate of people “enabling” their wizards on their teams, so it’ll be more of a low-rated problem after some time has passed.
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This is how I understood the rules as well.
However, I can be kind here and do so, if it bothers you that much. I think my message went through: have some time off from the forums, yeah? Kinda seems to melt your brain.
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Well, if u get peel from teamm mates, cc wise, counter pressure, fake cast.
Its not imposible as u state.
Someone has to die in arena tough:)
Just don’t play a caster. (Fire mage is not a caster)
Your life will be much smoother for PvP.
Much worse for PvE.
The choise is yours. 
Yeah, it’s really annoying, there’s just too much CC’s in the game atm.
You can’t create a gap as a caster since every melees have actually… better mobility than ranged ???
So you have to hardcast in front of him, and melees just have too many tools to prevent you from getting a cast off. But I mean, it has been pointed out for years.
Let’s take an exemple you’re fighting a windwalker in a 1v1 situation. You’re trying to cast whatever.
Interrupt number 1 = kick
Interrupt number 2 = incap
Interrupt number 3 = stun
Interrupt number 4 = kick again
Interrupt number 5 = Ring of Peace
Interrupt number 6 (monks only) = Port away
Interrupt number 7 = incap again
Interrupt number 8 = kick again
Interrupt number 9 (monk only) = diffuse magic
…
you get the point.
All this damage denying while obviously beating the **** out of you up and stealing your lunch money
You have 0 gear to do anything. Grind some honor in epic bg’s, buy some honor gear and try again.
advise for general solo pvp:
solo fiesta: play a melee with large burst and def cds
bgs: play a ranged class that can pewpew from 40y away
so yeah cannot have both. technically you could play bm hunter for both but you might be dying of boredom and you are generally too squishy
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I’m not gonna say it is easy having a WW, DH, or DK sitting on you… BUT you need to adapt to the situation.
Think about how a WW monk does his “go”.
He normally wants to pin you in place using a stun so that he is free to do his burst rotation without you escaping or interrupting him with counter cc.
The same principle applies to Shadow Priest.
If you want to deal damage to him, you should “setup” this kill opportunity by stunning or fearing him first.
In fact, it is even encouraged by talents to deal your damage while a target is feared.
I barely have trouble casting as Shadow.
Damnation and its CDR talents, Unfurling Darkness, Shadow Crash and Flash Heal are your friends. Not to mention the frequent procs of Mind Blast, Mind Spike and Deathspeaker.
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agree. Getting dmg out as shadow isnt hard at all. Most stuff is instant. The dmg of these abilities was more the problem the last 2 seasons in my opinion but when OP is getting kicked all the time he is doing something wrong.
And its only getting better in DF or is already better right now in prepatch. On Beta i didnt need to cast at all haha
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I am with lockfromwish and broxis, I just picked up a shadow priest and I rarely have to cast.
I either use instants or if I dont have anything available I do utility stuff, healing, purging, dispelling etc.
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I notice a lot of newer/less experiened Shadows hard cast spamming Mind Spike. So they’re probably getting locked on that as well, idk. Maybe Elahri can share more of what they’re doing and we can offer tips, or link their SP with the talents its running.