Both ST and AoE buffs for us, looking alot better then the orginal buffs they were showing.
Vampiric Embrace is no longer on the global cooldown.
This one is 100% my favourite.
I question to why these look like pvp buffs to stack given the currebt position of shadow in pvp 
they rly are not giving a F in regards to dealing with classes in pvp weirdly.
I am deeply concerned by the changes to psychic link.
Aoe void torrent, buffing mf:i…i mean …it looks like the trololo psychic link/mf:i build will be stronger than sear…which is not what i wanted to see…i dont wanna be redotting stuff constantly.
PsyLink working with Void Bolt now is just super juicy!
These are pve buffs. Shadow getting nerfed by 25 percent + less insta spell procs in pvp content.
You think its for the worse??
Do you wanna play voidform mind spike mind sear void torrent and MFI in the same aoe build? Cuz I sure don’t.
Pretty sure Sear will still do the most damage 
Sear doesn’t even do the most damage right now for people in optimised gear…
This is true, its gonna bloat our m+ build to our raid pretty much, i dont know why theyre against just increasing damage. Rather then adding more.
Its a rather complex buff, where they could have just increased the damage of what we were already using.
They coulda buffed paychic links damage instead of adding more to it.
Mind sears never been the top of my damage lol.
Psychic link was already going to be a major player in our M+ and cleave builds as we got more mastery / gear. The changes they’re making to it will just lead to them watering it back down.
Looking at your gear, the builds where it should be are probably still better for you in M+ / Mass AoE. But yeah after all of these changes mind sear is going to sit in this weird limbo where it’s necessary for dot maintenance but less damage per insanity / gcd than DP + MFI with link.
I just don’t see why they didn’t buff dots themselves. It’d help with movement for one.
Making Mind Sear a spender was a mistake anyways. They should have doubled down on spirits as Shadows main source of AoE damage. Just decouple spirits from VT and instead have them proc on any recently damage enemy. Maybe even have them do splash damage.
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Personally, I would have wanted Idol of NZoth for example to allow exploding shadow apparitions to do small AoEs.
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They should just buff Pyschic Link in to a Passive that cleaves on all our dots and stuff.
Or make Pyschic Link in to our Mastery instead of the one we got now.
Pyschic Link Is interesting but they aren’t there quiet yet with shadow in this expack.
Given id argue ST was a larger problem i think itd of just been smarter to buff the DoTs at focus point.
And then buffed Mind blast to polish it off
This would have naturally lifted both ST and AoE with Shadow Crashs AoE dotting properities. And Mindblasts damage buffing psychic link indirectly.
I agree we got nothing to clear small adds with now we are useless on moba fights i just target 1 big boss and and boss.
They should Just make Mind blast Apply VT and SWD apply Pain as i stated.
Shadow Crash needs to go its kind of clunk fiesta and you feel clumsy when you miss it if people stands on slope or if tank runs and its to slow to land.
Also think Mindbender should be a pet and Inescapable Torment a new thing for easy access to cleaving adds because we have nothing to deal with small adds.
If they did this, u may aswell just remove the DoTs and make them passives all togerher, u cant just delete DoTs in such fashion realistically.