Weve been askins about that for a decade now. No one ever replied to a single one of those threads.
Mages USE magic. Priests believe in Shadow. Everything is Shadow. They ARE Shadow.
I think it’s more of the balance - you can’t have Light without Shadow.
e.g Benediction and Anathema - The Balance of Light and Shadow.
The brightest light casts the longest shadow etc.
It’s been a staple of the Priest class since its inception. I appreciate you don’t like Shadowform but its so integral to the class - it’s what gave it a personality in the early days and continues to make the ‘Light’ healer interesting.
I agree - I love transmogs and shadowform is what’s keeping me from playing a shadow priest. Blizz, please make the visuals optional already. Or like Greenbar said - make the shadow visuals build up with insanity, this will be the coolest.
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Those are the kind of changes that make things interesting…
It’s apart of Shadows core aesthetic. And it’s fine for a class or 2 to have these same things, same applies to druid.
It seperated shadow from other casters and that’s goodz I really like shadowform and I enjoy the fact I don’t have to put much effort into transmog to make it look good.
We have a shadow priest without shadow form, it’s called affliction warlock 🤷🤷
Absolutely not. Go play mage or lock.
Seems like there’s a split of people adamantly for keeping Shadowform visuals, and the unique identity it brings to the class/spec, and those who feel it obscures how their character looks with their hard-earned gear, and the unique identity this brings to their character.
Someone above made the incredibly smart and handsome suggestion of having the intensity of the Shadowform visual correspond to you current insanity level.
Do we think that solution would satisfy both camps?
I think it could… What’s the secret to getting Blizz to pay attention?
Or just add a glyph… Since that’s, like… What they’re there for.
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This would solve exactly nothing but piss off both sides.
Could you explain why you think that?
Also spotted something that suggested Shadowform may have functioned like this at some point in the past (Legion or WoD maybe). I.e. SF got more intense with higher insanity.
Can anyone confirm? Maybe not an original idea at all…
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Because people that dislike the SF effect will hate the high insanity effect.
And people that like SF effect would lose it every time they are not in combat.
Is like removing glyph of star, and Druid player gradually transform into a lazerchicken as Astral power goes.
Cool - thanks for elaborating bud.
I think I disagree with your first point. My gut-feel is that people who dislike the SF effect would appreciate that it’s not there when out of combat, and when it comes up in combat either wouldn’t mind so much (in the heat of battle, not so worried about how your transmogs look), or at the least it’s no worse than the current situation. For that camp of people, it’s either a good solution, or a step in the right direction that doesn’t go quite far enough. Either way is positive.
Your second point though… You’re probably right. People who like shadowform wouldn’t get to see it when chilling in cities etc. There’s probs a decent portion of the pro-SL faction that would dislike a change like that.
Such a fuss over grape-farts, man. Who’d have thought it would be so difficult to agree over our grape-farts?
No its not old shadow form the original one was one of the main reasons why i picked shadow priest as my character back in the days that and old mindflay animation.
And now they are both long gone and the new animations just look ugly as crap especially mindflay oh how much i hate the newer animation compared to old mind worm that it had.
I wish we could choose the animations we like. We have the technology for that in form of glyphs but instead of giving us options to do so blizzard constantly forces their new anime graphic puke animations on us.
Shaman is another example i would kill to have the old windfury animation for my enhancement shaman.
Really weird for shadow priests to have both shadowform and voidform. I am too in the boat of those interested in spriests, but staying away due to horrid impact on transmog.
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Is it? Voidforms just a cooldown in SL, I don’t like the new shadowform visuals either but that’s like saying it’s weird balance has moonkin form and celestial alignment.
The glyph system was a good way to add effect to excisting spells purely in a cosmetic way and hopefully they can bring this back. This could open up alot of costumization. Priests for example have differnt priesthoods with differnt ideals and ofc visuals.
1: Glypg of Ravens
Your build and spender (mb and dp) will now use raven visuals.
mindblast will spawn 2 ravens like the old glyph and Dp will make multiple 4 or maybe 6 appear and will look like the raven heal the npcc use (multiple ravens with sparkles)
Glyph of the inner sha.
Your build and spender will get a sha look and your shadowform will also be effected.
Glypg of n’zoth
Your shadowform will get darker and more sinister the more insanity you get.
(Voidform will now have 4 tentacles sprouting off of you like the Legion animation)
Glyph of the darkfallen
Your builder en spender now appear more vampiric and shadowform has a subtle red anima glow/smoke.
(The vampiric nature of the shadow priests has always been a priesthood I would love to see more off. Back in Wrath with these raven priests we actually found out their leader was a dreadlord in disguise with the scarlet crusade. This suggest the raven priesthood has a vampiric nature to them aswell since they obviously achieved or learned from their leader)
Glyph of smoke
Your shadowform now only has the smoke arrround you with subtle shadows reflecting on your character. This means no pure shadowform and just the backround smoke to show off your character.
and finally
Glypg of the OG (joke name)
Shadowform now has the classic look.
Also would like to add all shadowform glyph have the unique option to add in a extra minor glyph so the reduce effect glyph now works with all these Shadowform glyphs. This would add even more options and you have atleast the option to ruduce the effect if you please.
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I hope there comes a solution to this, my current workaround is to turn off shadowform when i get on mounts. It’s not just the blur but there’s also a particle spam that’s heading straight to camera and it’s highly distracting. I would not be able to stand it without at least rotating the camera upwards.
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I understand where it’s coming from but the option for both camps is already there - by means of the shadowform button.
I don’t think this will ever be changed. There is a button - to take off the form so you can already change at will. Chilling in a city and want to look at your cool Transmog? Push the button and with that remove the purple fart. Go raiding, PVP or do M+ or have a need for the extra 10% damage? - Click the button - you won’t be looking at your Mog in those situations anyway… If you are - you didn’t need the 10% damage buff anyway 
It’s a shadow priest - if you are not engulfed in shadow during fights its kinda missing the fantasy of the class…
I absolutely agree with this I ended up turning off Shadowform while im flying to places as the particle spam is going to induce an epileptic fit.
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