Shadow Form, Shadow Word: Shield

Classes Priest
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Hello.

Can I ask, why the hell do Shadow priest have access to transmogrification if all I can see is purple something on the screen?

Can we please get a glyph to remove Shadow Form effect entirely?

Second case, is our ugly Shield. We have it for years now. It’s not even shadowy shield…

When I see all thous from mages and pallies, I’m just jealous :stuck_out_tongue:

Changes are needed! :slight_smile:

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Removing Shadowform with a glyph ruins the aspect of “Shadow Priest” But I get where you are coming from.

And yeah, I’m still wondering why we use Power Word: Shield instead of Shadow Word: Shield.

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So we at least have SOMETHING to do when we get interrupted in PvP.

You realise every single other “Ex hybrid” spec has their healing / defensive spells on a different spell school to their main (Not filler) damage school.

Monks: Melee damage, heals nature.
Paladins: Melee damage, heals holy.
Elemental: Fire Damage, heals nature.
Moonkin: Arcane damage, heals nature.
Enhance: Melee instant nature / fire damage, heals nature.
Shadow: Damage damage, heals shadow.

We’re the odd one out here, and there’s zero benefit to it.

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My niBBa Aleani asking the real questions here

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In your attempt to make shadow look weak, you skipped to say that the generators and utilities of elemental and balance are also nature. Shadowmend being shadow is the least of the problem.

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More pointing out the lack of continuity. And I think the point that there is no benefit to things being the way they are, along with potentially losing the ability to use PW:S while locked out is perfectly valid.

A counter point, hypothetically, would be if this “Shadow Shield” were somehow more effective as a result of now being on the shadow school. An example would be that it absorbs 100% more when used on self, although that is obviously pending tuning, and the upcoming changes in 8.1 which kill the tanky edge of insanity build.

I very much miss the ability, from TBC to WoD, to toss heals in when locked out by mages and warlocks, currently you just press shield once, MD if it’s relevant / useful at the time, and waddle around a bit.

Have it as a glyph to change the appearance like lightspawn, sure, just don’t change the actual spell school of the ability.

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A glyph that makes power word:shield…shadowy, or something like that for spriests would be really great. Makes little sense for spriests to have a holy oriented spell, since they have fully embraced shadow/void.
Though i would prefer if they changed the shield for spriests, similar to how each mage spec shields have different benefits.

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I swear if you get this. i quit the game. Cant be that shadowpriest gets a shield for another “arctype” but looking cool and i cant even press arcanebarrier/firebarrier when locked on arcane/fire. back in the day with icebarrier that was the stuff. yeah give mages icebarrier back on each spec and glyphs wich make them look like fire/arcane for the crybabys so we can all

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‘‘Back in the day’’ the whole game was a total clusterf**k . Today however it’s about spec fantasy, and i fully support the idea, for each class, each player to be able to specialize in a tree, one path, instead of total chaos like it was in vanilla with specs having all spells completely disregarding spell schools. There was no fantasy, it was a mess. Like, how is a shadow priest suppose to wield light, when it’s physically impossible?..a flawed game design.

P.S. You can quit for all anyone cares, vanilla comes next summer, it will be a perfect place for you in that sh!tshow.

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Dude you are legit retardet. BEEING A MAGE A MASTER OF ALL THE MAGIC IS THE PURE DEFINITION OF THIS CLASS. We had that by beeing able to beeing firemage dealing massive ammounts of damage and beeing able to defend ourselfs with icebarrier, frostnova, arcane explosions(vs stealths), nova and so on. just because you werent able to do anything with “to many spells” in your “spellbook” with “ranks” its not my and most of other peoples problem. Actually all the pruning is because of people like you who “own smartphones” btw maybe you post with your main? :slight_smile:

PS: never even mentioned vanilla, guess you are retardet afterall. but yeah WOTLK when i startet was the real deal for me back in the day. Mists of Pandaria was good aswell but i guess not for you since you had once again to many options and buttons mh?

PPS: shouldnt a MMO just offer all the choices in the world given? why censoring a class to a specc? dont remember good old days where warriors had stances and had to actually switch to use stuff like spellreflection, deffs and second charge ? Same for Paladins, Dk´s, even monks got pruned af and they dont even exist for that long. I know you are just here to trigger me but seriously people like you always get me with “i want eaasy access to everything moma blizzard or i quit my sub” yeah just f you

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Also i just saw 2 Comments from you regarding SPriest and Lock so whats your deal dude? You rly like the classes that actually have to press 2 Buttons only and like numberchanges so your 2 buttons deal more dmg? Yeah thats fine for me bra. you should try out mage since you like arena. 3 buttons. GPyro, if kicked spampoly and blink “good gameplay and much room for counterplay”

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The reason why Power Word: shield exist for spriest the way it is, is because of the talents t shares with the other specs.

This used to be the same for mages, until the artefact and new talents that supported it.

So until that day?

Isn’t there a glyph that lessens the effect of shadowform?

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It used to be, but since they pruned 90% of glyphs and abilities, it’s no longer in the game.

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Can’t believe you bought into their “class fantasy” marketing crap when they did all the pruning.
Or you are a MOBA player who discovered wow.

Anyways, bring back TBC s.priest.

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So anyone with different opinion is ,retardet" fo you…noted.

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As you can see i wrote it exactly like that. Nice interpretation

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A glyph to give it a shadowy appearance would easily fix this, while leaving it out of shadow school.

I already suggested this back then, but such threads usually sink easily. Too bad, since mages already got their barrier rework :confused:

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I only said i prefer when a class takes a set path, instead being a mixed bag. Like, as a frost mage, why in the world would i want to cast fire or arcane spells when i am the master of frost and cold magic? Here’s a fairy tale, so i just cast a frost spell…figuratively…that encased my enemy into a block of ice, Here, ill just cast a fire spell to melt it. lol, oh well.
So in this regard i do like spec fantasy, as frost i would want only frost based spells, fire being fire based and so on.

What does this has to do with anything? lol The topic is about aesthetics.

And how did you come to that assumption? I like complexity, which is why i have always played the underdog specs, like survival hunter in Legion, and the reason i don’t play the likes of frost DKs or BM hunters. But i sure as hell don’t want TBC spriest back, god no, i like the Voidform, but it needs improvements. The more complexity, more mechanical interactions between spells, the better, im all for it.

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Voidform pins you to no mobility for its duration. If you move, your damage suffers. It’s a poor mechanic and it has no place in the current meta.
So no, Voidform is not great by any means. It has to go. It was nice in legion with the surrender gimmick, let it stay in legion.
A pure dps shadowpriest has no place in the priest class fantasy, if you really must think of it that way.
A priest is a support, pure dps shadowpriest doesn’t support anything, it barely survives by itself in its current iteration.

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It really doesn’t, and hasn’t since its inception.

This idea that shadow priest is a turret, and that the moment you have to do mechanics on a boss your dps plummets is a myth, save for 1-2 examples where every caster that isn’t a mage ends up suffering equally or even more.