Hey all, all the years I’ve been playing wow I’ve never played spriest, how are they with the rework that’s been done? Are they viable and are they fun to play? Will be doing mythic plus mainly.
Thanks in advanced.
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Viable? Yes. Fun? Meh.
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The Rework Has positives and negatives.
Shadow Priest in 10.1 had Mind Sear Removed and Mind Spike and Mind Flay become a Choice node, so 2 abilities reduced Rotationally. It doesnt massively change things to this extent, primarily because Mind Sear didnt feel like worked properly with Psychics Rotation and 2 fillers just ment Mind Spike was primarily a Filler when it Procc’d to reduce Mind blasts Cast time. the issue comes down to how these interactions helped Shadow Priest During moments of movement.
Now, basically your ST Rotation applies to both ST and AoE, alot smoother in terms of rotation and doesnt feel as bloated with 2 Fillers being sat on ur bar and shadow crashs reduced CD makes it alot easier to continously use and reduced moments between CD
The primary problems Its caused is, with the reduction to Procs we get and Lack of on the move Damage movement has become further punishing. so being forced to move wont feel great.
it has Good ST And AOE DPS. it still a engaging rotation, and still holds One of the largest ability pools and feels rather good to play outside of movement issues.
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It’s ok. It’s not the best, but it’s not the worst spec out there.
Mobility is one of the issues, the second are big mob pulls - if you will be in a situation where the tank will pull more than 8 targets… Well, good luck with targeting the mobs that aren’t dotted by Shadow Crash and dotting them manually xD
We need to see how it will perform in couple of weeks, but if you never played priest before, go for it, really. The rotation right now is pretty simple, it’s really easy to pick up and you are not bothered by the things that were great and they are now gone, because you’ve never really experienced them, so it will be fun for you 
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this is what i think of having to hard cast my dots when missing shadow crash when tank has to move and getting hard focused by melee meta in pvp and void form and dark Ascension isn’t instant cast.,
and having to cast power infusion on another target (not my pet to get more dps.)
a frikkin support role not even than still not instant cast mass dispel.
it gets even better you go oom after one [Power Word: Shield] or [Flash Heal] mana is none existence.
we take loads of damage from literally anything still no 100% damage reduction on Dispersion.
Or Door of shadows blink…
Devs for this class is a big pile of Meh.
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You’ll probably get a lot of different opninions. I for one really think SP is still a good and very fun spec to play. Way more interesting than some other casters.
I do have to say i focus on pvp and not pve so i won’t say anything about pve.
You have a lot, literally a lot of utility, support and damage. Always a global to spend.
Best advice i can give you is to just check it out and see if you like it. Welcome to the dark side
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