I quit halfway through ph1 because of priests. They were just way too overpowered. Ruined the entire experience and fun of PvP. And eventually made me stop having fun.
However, ph2 ramped it up. I really don’t think I can make it halfway through ph2 with the current state of shadow priest.
I’d be surprised if I make it halfway through next week before I quit again if Im being honest.
New balance patch coming on the 21st and no priest changes… wtf are the devs smoking ?
They were impossible to kill with their absolutely mindboggling healing, now they also one-shot anyone they see with a single instant cast spell.
You couldn’t make this up. I’m sure the entire dev team in blizzard are enjoying their priests. They are mentally 7 year old toddlers.
Shadowpriest balanced. you just cant outplay them
Would love to hear an explanation by you on how to outplay them.
Bad players always defend broken classes, without them they would have to learn to play. Just ignore priest mains defending the current state.
Same as bad hunters in p1. And druids at the start of p2. They cry becouse they know they dont have any skills.
Spriest is and will always be strong in pvp due to its toolkit.
Altough same in dmg as boomies in pvp, Spriest is a diffrent case.
They will just go back to mind flaying people to death and people will still complain about it.
Im not against a nerf/tune down of sw:d just know it wont change anything in case of Spriest.
cough Also disc is always better in grp pvp but lets not tell that secret to the normies cough
Getting oneshot by an instant cast is not the same as someone spam casting interruptable and numerous casts.
But they’re changing everything. They could change the toolkit of Spriests in a hundred different ways, just like they killed melee DPS then made hunters the only viable melee DPS.
You even reading what im writing or are you that mad about the topic?
Or is star surge now suddenly a spell you can interrupt that never “oneshot” ( whatever that even means anymore the term oneshot now seems to be used just for anything thats strong) anyone?
I just dont want to die in 2 seconds. I miss the day when casters casted abilities instead of just literally murdering you before you have a chance to even react.
SoD ph2 PvP is the worst pvp i have ever seen in a video game. And I played new world for the past 2 years. I started playing SoD because i got fed up by amazon games level of amateurism and went to a weathered 20 year old dev team expecting quality. But blizzard is making AGS look good at this point.
Wtf is this trash pvp we have right now? For the record spriest is the most broken, but not the only broken class. The dmg across the board is too high. People are just melting in 2 seconds. but with spriest there is no possible way to even fight back though. is there any class in the game that can kill a spriest?
Indeed, thats why they dont need an instant which hits for more than 50% of ppls health 
Im sry but this really sounds like a skill issue.
YES sw:d is overtuned but claiming that nothing can kill a spriest is just plain up wrong. Spriest got no fear or trinket ready = dead against any melee.
The killtimes you guys describe is 100% you letting the priest just cast on you without interruption.
I played it myself and no you dont just klick sw:d = kill on a 100% health target.
Any Spriest just casting sw:d without any pre prep will just die and only survives if ignored.
You guys ever tried playing with a healer in STV? Probably not. I mostly do the healing there and its easy to counter a Spriests dmg.
Also solo pvp is always a joke and should not be taken serious as its always just a rock paper scissors fight of who wins.
Also the the current stam you can get on gear is not enough to deal with the current dmf of any of then classes.
Does it need tuning? Again yes so stop crying already as even if it gets nerfd the REAL PROBLEM still persist.
Stop posting if you dont know why you acrually get beaten in pvp.
Cant wait for guys like you to just go to cry about the next class that kills you in pvp in seconds probably hunter or rogue next.
I won’t play this crap until there are test servers. Honestly, I know what runes are coming, but at least the game isn’t a total failure. My last login was on 11.02. The fun and motivation is gone, I won’t come back either, because it repeats at lvl 50 and 60 if they don’t test the 
. But look on the bright side for Blizzard. They now have a mode as Discoveries and can save the resources for PTRs. Economically it’s a great thing $$$$
Wierd i thought it was hunters…wich are now reduced to a melee oddity.
yeah big skill issue. priest places a dot and casts one short cast and then SWD. Boom dead. that’s less than 4 seconds before i am 100-0’d
cant be a skill issue when there is no time to react. Sure a priest can be managed in a duel where you are aware that he is coming to attack you. If he pulls up behind you or if he targets you during a group fight. GG.
It’s so easy to just throw out the claim of “skill issue” but anyone who deffends the absurdly out of control dmg in PH2 SoD have never played a proper pvp game before. If you think people getting globaled in seconds is good pvp then your opinion is automatically ignored by me, Im sorry.
Yes there are many other classes that are also wildly out of control and also need nerfs. But priest can almost instantly nuke you from a range. Ele shamans can do it too but on a procc. But yes, they also need nerfs. But the Spriest nerfs are urgently needed because they dont rely on procs of any kind. They can consistently delete every player in the game. Even a BiS geared player would get obliterated by a priest.
Just for context. I play warlock. I have shadow ward which absorbs 240 shadow dmg or something like that. then I also run around with shadow prot pots which I keep on a keybind for anytime a I notice a priest dot on me I know hes about to try and nuke me. And it BAAARELY helps bro. I still can’t win against them, but it buys me enough time to run away maybe.
I second this honestly. Test servers are needed. They dont have to show us where to obtain the runes. Just give us premade characters with all the runes obtained already. The fun of discovery is not in discovering what runes are in the game as that will be on wowhead before the phase even launches anyway. The fun of discovering runes is just discovering them ingame. that’s all.
Test servers does not hurt the “discovery” aspect.
Sw:d atm is a crutch babbie tool for noob players to get unfair kills against people. Its unnecessary and overblown overpowered to the point its not even funny. Its like starsurge, no difference
i almost hitted rank 1 in shadowpriestin retail so you need reconsider what u saying
your rank in retail has absolutely no weight in this discussion. If you are actually defending the current balance of SWD then you are a crutch player with no skill.
On of the main reasons why I play rogue, I can choose which fights to take most of the time. Ignored them in Wpvp in Phase 1 and will do so in Phase 2.
On of the main reasons why I play rogue, I can choose which fights to take most of the time. Ignored them in Wpvp in Phase 1 and will do so in Phase 2
There is no dishonour in dying, only in not fighting