I am very excited for Phase 2 and i think the SOD team has done an icredible job on many fronts, however i really wanna express my concern for shadow priest yet again.
I fear Mind Spike will completely ruin our rotation going in to phase 2, there will be no reason to run Mind Flay which is our most iconic spell as shadow priest.
And if thats the case we will be running Twisted Fate and only getting ½ of its value. Which as the most struggling DPS spec out there just feels super bad.
Vampiric Touch wouldve solved so many issues for us and still left us room in our rotation to play as a shadow priest should be played in my opinion, now my prediction is we will just be spamming mind spike and mind blast with the occasional shadow word pain endlessly which is gonna be such a boring rotation and its not gonna feel like a shadow priest at all, more like a dumbed down warlock.
I know we dont have all the info yet and all the datamined information is not necesarrily correct, but if it is. Mind Spike and Dispersion is not good enough to pull us back from the terrible spot we are in, and while shadow fiend is definitely gonna help with mana it also overrites homunculus which is the only valuable debuff we will be bringing to a raid since no one will be doing shadow damage except us.
Please consider giving us Vampiric Touch as an alternative to Mind Spike, id hate to see us just be a worse warlock with a 2 button rotation.
I cannot agree with you more. I was hoping so much for Vampiric Touch to be mana battery. But mind spike does not fill on Priest Identity of classic.
So far, shadow priest is “weird” that we do not need critical strike rating, as we need only spell power and mana regen but this mind spike is not the answer. 
-I was also hoping in some “Mind Flay” with CD like 30 sec, to restore our mana back. So we are channelers and dotters. .not just pure casters…
Also as you said Mind Spike does not work with Previous rune Twisted fate.
so SP will be viable to play?
this is sod, ure not getting optimal, or old. ure getting cluncky and new, and soon its the new normal.
just b glad u didnt play hunter, and went from ranged to melee. yet, anyway.
Well Iam a huge fan of melee hunters… and I really wish them to be viable. We are just not happy, saying our concerns we have, regarding class we love and play…
I agree. I wish they made a “flayer” rune instead that would made mindflay have a chance to proc instant and free Mind Blasts. Something similar to what Devokers have with surge on retail.
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amen! and ive played hunter 20 yrs. never ever have i contemplated melee. its a meme to me. i spesifically dont want to be melee - if i did, id have picked…
arms warrior
prot warrior
fury warrior
feral
bear
ench shammy
combat rogue
assass rogue
subtelty rogue
tank rogue
tank warlock
tank pally
retri pally
but i picked the ranged phys class. and then they removed its viabillity.
id be happy with a cluncky rotation, if i stayed viable
well… and what about if you want to be a ranged sniper with a bow - marksmanship, cool beast guy with options to choose bow/spear - beast mastery or spearman - survival? 
but hey I dont create the game xD iam here only to say how do i feel over new runes for Shadow priest…
then in p2, ure a meme spec. u can do it, but its a dead playstyle in terms of pve dps.
dont want to hijack the priest whine tho.
to get back to the theme, i wouldnt complain about a rotation when the spec and class becomes viable in a low level version of a classic wow style game.
Agree 100%
It’s very strange way to approach Shadowpriest in Phase 2… making Mindflay obsolete would be a really dumb move, but it seems that’s gonna be it 
Does shadow frost dmg (mind spike) has a slowing effect?
Agree they should give a rune that buffs mind flay for example lowering it’s cost buffing it’s damage and range , ofc you need to have the talent of mindflay
Also you can make it protected from pushbacks by 70% and maybe give it an effect like increase the dmg from dots or every tick chance to increase the crit from mindblast.
Dunno why these devs don’t think by themselves and make something new and cool but just searching other expansions and giving us bad old spells.
And casting mind spike is just bad…Sp is a flayer ,dots and channeling not a cast spammer from 42yards away. Plus I think mind spike gonna hit like Noodle,a bit weaker than wrath or smth.