I have some ideas of what would make me happily personally as a shadowpriest:
It’s really time that Priest/Shadowpriest was brought into 2024.
Firstly, Silence and shadowcrash need to be made default spells. Shadowcrash should hit and dot 8 targets by default, replace the 2 shadowcrash talents like so:
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First Talent: Shadowcrash CD reduced to 15 seconds and initial damage increased 100%
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Second Talent: Shadowcrash now affects up to 12 targets.
Currently the shadowcrash CD is too punishing as we have to wait for the CD when packs are pulled, being completely unable to AOE at all whilst all other classes can happily mash their AOE buttons and do millions of DPS at will. For some unknown reason not only is our entire AoE damage gated behind talents but it’s on a long unreliable CD. - The increased initial damage from the new talent would help a bit as we are (I think) the absolute worst class in the game when it comes to instant AoE application by some margin.
Silence talent should be replaced with a talent to turn it into a real interrupt (you know, like all the other dps classes get for free - when on earth will we stop being punished for being able to cast flash heal? it’s useless and has been useless for over a decade, there’s no such thing as a hybrid spec anymore. Louder for people in the back: SHADOW, PRIEST, IS, NOT, A , HYBRID, SPEC, please give us the same stuff every other dps class gets.
like for example: Replace PI with A BL, and stop balancing Shadowpriest around PI cos none of us enjoy it, if you must have it then move PI to hold/disc trees or something. alternatively (or additonally) just give us a second power word that buffs the raid/group with 5% haste. (Removing PI + the fact we’re low on meters even with PI is how all these buffs I’m suggesting are ‘paid’ for)
We can’t move, at all. I think we are the only class that has no real movement ability these days, it’s grossly unfair, give us a little dash on a 2 minute cooldown or something, not as strong as blink, maybe half the range and it leaves a trail of angel feathers or whatever. If you want to make it shadow only then make it ‘void warp’ and it leaves a little purple mark on the floor for a second.
Fix voidweaver:
Voidweaver is bad, improve it by making it more consistent and buffing its damage slightly: Entropic rift AoE radius increased 50%, Void Blast damage increased a further 10%
Give us something to do when we are moving, we are one of the most immobile classes in the game and it hurts us horrendously when it comes to being competitive in a ton of different content - Almost everything we do is a hardcast:
- New spell: Void/Shadow lance, no CD, instant cast, its damage somewhere below mind blast and above SW:P application. (Alternatively to avoid skill bloat, make SW:P initial application do more damage)
Increase mind blast damage 20% (it hits like a wet noodle AND somehow has a CD in addition to this). and whilst you’re at it just change it into something else entirely that has an actual animation like shadowbolt or fireball etc.
Dots: Make dots great again, increase SW:P and VT damage by 20%
Increasing core ability damage like this will also make our damage less cooldown dependent, currently we do very little damage outside of Voidform/Halo CD which means in M+ we are only useful on alternating pulls.
I think most of these buffs could be justified just due to PI being removed before you even consider we are languishing at the bottom of the M+ and Raid meters.
- TL:DR
Make Shadow Crash a default spell and add talents to make it better than current.
Make Silence default and can be talented into an interrupt.
Remove PI, Replace it with a Bloodlust so we can find M+ Groups.
Because we removed PI, Buff Mindblast and our SW:P/VT Dots by 20%~. (This will also increase our damage outside of our burst windows which currently is a massive portion of our damage)
Improve our damage profile when we are not able to stand still.
Improve Voidweaver a bit by increasing its AOE radius and void blast damage.