This isn’t me being confident that we’ll be fine in 8.3, I like many other experienced shadows and members of the TC community are wary of how things are going to turn out.
I’m agreeing things aren’t looking great, I’m just tired of playing the victim. I want the actual problem fixed.
Also while I’m here, you should be looking into buying a highborne compendium of storms trinket, and considering dropping ilvl second ring, gloves and bracers for optimal stats. The trinket is 400 ilvl, I know, but it’s wayyyy better than either of the other things you’re wearing, and it scales in multi target.
What is stupid, that our PvE AoE state, doesn’t show us the same way in PvP. There is a lot more classes that shine on top of us in AoE, DKs, mages that just spam one skill /fire one/, Moonkins. And 8.3 don’t address any of our issues. I don’t have time to switch classes, but shadow going worse in PvP with every patch and no one looks how changes will perform there.
Nope I see the numbers in BGs like Ashran, that the most times people just nuke each others and if I am only shadow this can be correct, but after BG in scores never see overwhelming by shadow priests. I see mages-fire, moonkins/and they are in front by much/ and even DKs are more damage, than us. So our ranking as AoE hero just don’t shine in PvP.
And that’s the problem in PvP we don’t have burst, don’t have the AoE, we are trained by any mele and everyone can escape from us, if we manage to overtake him. No mobility and our arsenal versus meles and 45sec default CDs on CCs make us just bade compared to any other class. And blizzard never address this as problem. We need single target for PvP and some talents to drop at half our CCs in PvP. Reverse life grip was not bad idea. MindSpike was perfect mechanic to have single target instead of doting in PvP. And much more.
There was telent to easy spread 25% pain with mind sear, they removed from us, but still keep moonkin mechanic to easy spread dots. What ever we have now is just bad version, of what is present to other casters.
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And about my build, insta damage I find more useful, than spec in dots, that is slow dmg. That why prefer Mind Blast over dot’s, this maye be will be bad for PvE, but in PvP works fine.
I talk about BGs. I play a lot, have addon memoria /have shot from end screen in every BG I play/ and can tell, that never seen shadow on top of moonkins, DKs, some mages-fire, specially on epic BGs. Usually moonkins are by much on top and then DKs and then may be some priest can be there. In arena can be good that damage. Or may be, have bad luck to get in group with good shadow priest Will be happy to see you on merc mode.
Well im talking about bg aswell. If fights arent heavily onesided and last for a bit nothing except moonkin can come even close to sp damage from my experience.
I streamed my last 20 or so random BGs. This is exactly my experience.
Epic BGs are very different, because as was said shadow has no target scaling aoe like sunfire or unholy plagues. But in 10 and 15 mans you just destroy everything.
EDIT: If people wanna watch a 20something brit mash vampiric touch against random people, whilst assorted punk and alternative plays in the background, then that stream might be for you
People don’t stand in healing rains, and healers don’t press dispel.
Will be happy to see you on merc mode.
