PVE crowd control

Classes Priest
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Sometimes I feel a little bit lackluster in PVE due to no hard CC option.

This feeling is even worse as we actually have cool CC options, we just can’t use them, which is sad.

Shackle undead is limited to only undead enemies, which sucks except for few very niche situations or outside of undead themed expansion.

Mind control looks great on paper, but most mobs which would be worth controling (because you loose your dps and make yourself vulnerable to aoe) are immune to mind control.

I would love to see an option from TBC time to MC a mob and at least use his buff spell on my party or his nuke to priority target, to make it worth using MC at least as a one trick pony instead of full CC.

Or at least change shackle undead to something more useful, I understand that anything what work on players would be too OP for PVP, but at least something a bit more useful than just undead.

What do you think? Do you agree? Or you think that priest (and especially shadow) toolkit is ok for PVE?

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Our utility in general is fairly trash.

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Something I always asked and wanted was some kind of near permanent “humanoid pet” due using mind control. Something like have a mind control talent that makes us gain as a “pet” a humanoid for 10 minutes and it have a CD of 3 or 5 minutes. That will give something interesting and unique to the priest.

Also suits the lore of control the minds of others using the void (or maybe just classic priest charismatic skills xDD)

Also I think will be not OP since the most powerful adds are inmune or not use the op skills, so why not?

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Something I always asked and wanted was some kind of near permanent “humanoid pet” due using mind control. Something like have a mind control talent that makes us gain as a “pet” a humanoid for 10 minutes and it have a CD of 3 or 5 minutes. That will give something interesting and unique to the priest.

As this used to be a talent in Legion and it got removed, I wouldn’t expect it returning anytime soon unless they would just bake this functionality directly into MC, maybe without that cooldown, I’m pretty sure warlock doesn’t have any CD on Enslave Demon, so no reason MC should have it I guess. It would add some utility/CC priest need.

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I would love to see shackle undead changed to shackle evil through something, allowing us to CC at least humanoid and undead.

As it stands, shackle undead is useful on 2-4 pulls across 2 dungeons. It’s terrible, and thanks to infested means we lack yet another thing most groups consider vital for pushing higher keys.

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Shackle Evil whould be; Human, Demon and Undead. Seem balanced enought tbh. Altho as Disc I’ve kinda fallen in love with the dominate mind talent. Taking control of the G’huun mob and move it behind the group for 30 sec usually is enought and it don’t break on dmg etc. :sunglasses:

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Ye. Also mc for some reason act like a taunt…so if u dont have fade ready then you are up for some sweaty situation :joy: . Also Last word should be a talent that makes instead of lower cd silence just replace silence with a 15-20 sec cd interrupt. imho ofc.

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Yeah i know, but it’s not a hard spell to use really.

Last Word could be funnier if it whould just add a AoE component to the spell, cause tbh. there’s probably other enemies nearby who whould yell louder then a priest anyways :roll_eyes:. Making It less powerfull then a moonkins solar beam, but it still whould work a bit like an AoE silence which are kind of more immersive.

Just as i whould like if Surrender to Madness just queued you up for LFR G’huun on use… :rofl:

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TBF these utility spells are from vanilla, since then priests lost some utility but never gained new skills.

Could do with something new.

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You mean like this?

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I am here to spread my shadow propaganda, don’t interfere.

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That’s not our ability, it’s from some random world quest mob in Zuldazar. My point is that this is an idea people have asked for on shadow since we gained our void connection in Legion. In BFA the ability now exists, yet for some reason they decided not to give it to shadow priests?

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That’s even more sad. I’m on mobile so I can’t juggle between links and webpages, I thought it was some datamined spell or something pvp only.

Looks good, should be baseline and not pvp only.
Like most pvp talents. Baseline please.

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like 80% of the playerbase atleast doesnt know priest have shackle undead at this point, everyone think its pruned away

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Even if people knew, it’s used on 2 pulls out of every pull in all 10 dungeons, and even in those situations the DH and Monk CCs work equally as well.

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Yeah i dont know how many times i have cc’d a target with shackle for it just be ignored and leg swept or any other form of roflstomp cc.

Shackle undead is outdated af

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Yeah then you wipe cos too much damage then group is like ‘ZOMG THIS PACK OVERTUNED’

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This is so relatable.

We should CC
30 sec later
AoE

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That Void Orb spell would be great, it would also add another alternative to DK or DH mass pulls, even if a bit weaker.

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