You are not able to gain insanity by shield when you are out of combat. Only way to reset boss or Shadow Crash if you have talent.
So what about to give us insanity regeneration to 25 % when you are out of combat? Because, shadow always starts with 25, not 0.
I vote to remove voidform and insanity for next the big patch or expansion, thanks!
I’d love to see a base regen of 25 insanity out of combat, and the necessary measures to prevent pre erupting ever being a thing for raid encounters.
The way the numbers add up with and without the 25 pre pull insanity feels like some kind of cruel joke. Let me also remind everyone that shadow priests are reset to 25 insanity when we start a fight with more, that was a conscious decision made by the development team.
With pre combat 25.
SWV, SWP, VT, SWV, Erupt.
(25) + 15 + 4 + 6 + 15
Without pre combat 25
SWV, SWP, VT, SWV, MF1, MF2, MF3, MF4, Erupt.
15 + 4 + 6 + 15 + 6 + 6 + 6 (We’re at 58/60 insanity now) + 6
We need that 25 because, without it, we run out of good spells to cast before we can even start using the ‘powerful’ part of our rotation. Being forced to channel mind flay for 4 globals before you actually get to do anything feels absolutely terrible.
I also think it should go next expansion (Though voidform as a spell will probably stick around doing something different). But a major patch is nowhere near enough to completely rebuild shadow’s mechanics. 9.0 though, certainly.
I agree with OP, our ramp time lasts 1 year until we can do our DPS (basicaly from second voidform), so why not giving us first voidform quicker? That would be just good quality of life improvement, nothing harmfull to other players.
EDIT: Funny thing, we need to make our ramp time as big as possible in order to have bigger dps later on 
(COI, Haste stacks). I change my mind, we should be able to voidform from the start, 60 insanity out of combat and i’m good 
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