Ladies and Gentlemen.
Opinions please
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tthey actually reworked void form 
Lol
I like it.
I haven’t played it.
I’ve only just skim-read the changes.
But I like it.
Why?
Because I like big changes to the class/spec I play. That is what I enjoy for a new expansion.
I don’t want to play the same old. I want NEW. Lots of NEW.
This is that.
I look forward to it.
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VOIDFORM IS GONE (sort of)
well… i wish voidform gone forever.
If they make glyph to hide voidform visual…maybe it will be bearable somehow…
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From a PvP view. “Ancient Madness” + “Damnation” with VoidForm as a 90 sec cooldown could lead to some serious burst damage on demand. I really like that. They just have to move the damage over to the core spells now that VoidForm is gone and just a cooldown. Then we could really see a very good iteration of this specc. (finally)
Not sure what to think about “Unfurling Darkness”. This could mean, that players feel forced to use this on the same target to do more damage. That wouldn’t be a good design at all then. Also would feel strange to do every 15 seconds.
“Psychic Link” will be awesome in Mythic+ content I guess.
“Shadowy Apparitions” rework sounds really really fun. This will have a good feeling to it when playing, I assure you this. Because when you have kind of control over ghosty shadows you can send to an enemy with more than 1 spell, this will feel awesome for sure.
“Dark Thoughts” is very interesting. It could lead to massive damage in AoE situations with “Psychic Link” in combination. But also can give you massive burst damage when you stack it up to 5 and then melt faces with 5 Mind Blasts in a row! Depending ion how much damage Mind Blast will do, this could be Insane!
“Devouring Plague” with 6 sec duration is much much better. PvP talent gives 12 sec duration, which is a good choice.
As a long time Shadow Priest player, I
stopped during Legion because I hated the Void Priest playstyle. I tried BFA again, stopped right away in the first 6 weeks into BFA. It was and still is a horrible exprience to play Void Priest imho. Because I know how it was back 5-15 years ago.
I do not have beta unfortunately. But I really hope all those other Shadow Priests out there will cover up all those new things to play with! Give us the YouTube stuff, guys. Feed us more.
Blizzard could’ve actually nailed it here with the rework, now only numbers have to be on point, again.
Thanks for the work Blizzard, I really didn’t have any faith that you would even touch Shadow Priest at all before Shadowlands goes live. But you did. Please don’t stop with it, tho.
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Testing needs to be done.
The talent keeps some sort of voidform in the game and if its the best talent then its not really gone.
As an affliction warlock which is getting annoyed by the lack of dot damage im considering my shadow priest even more.
Hopefully the talent its not good and we can finally play shadow priest without fighting the resource system.
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Cant wait to try out it and it sounds decent changes. I need beta first! 
Bellular and Dalaran Gaming beter be making a video of these changes
I don’t think it’ll be a binary choice the way Legacy of the Void currently is, i.e. it maths out as best; you pick it.
The ramping Void Form gameplay has some serious limitations in most gameplay situations - hence why players have complained about it.
It really is a mechanic that revolves entirely around raid bosses, specifically ones where you can chain long, uninterrupted Void Form cycles back to back.
So if there are some raid bosses where Legacy of Void is amazing because ramping Void Form excels in those circumstances, then I think that’s great! That’s talent choices as it should be. You pick and choose depending on the situation, and in some situations you might want to have Legacy of the Void, and in others you probably don’t.
It’s difficult to imagine that Legacy of the Void becomes the talent everyone picks and has all the time. Ramping Void Form is just not universally good. We know this from BfA - even with all the borrowed powers.
so Shadows going back to be a boring Spec
Void Form has its Problem sure. But it also made the Spec feel somewhat Unique
They should have just made Voidpriest as a 4th Spec at this Point and tune it accordingly for the ones who actually enjoyed it.
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Voidform playstyle isnt gone, bunch of massive changes, mb cd and charges adressed, bunch of new talents…
I, as an advocate for voidform and how it works currently in bfa with “bis” gear, can unironicaly say that im realy hyped to see these and cant wait for some testing. 
Anything is better than current beta version slugfest.
They’re doing away with the stacking mechanic, i.e. - waiting just to be able to do competent damage compared to other classes.
Wahey! I’m happy with just that fact. 
With the change to voidform meaning you no longer get haste increase, I hope it doesn’t feel slow and clunky to use.
We all know how useless shadow feels if you don’t stack haste up to your eyeballs
Also i have to add that im getting worried about one thing. Im realy…realy realy not looking forward to be reaplying dots constantly in m+ …or just in general. Thats the thing im gonna propably miss the most…that with a good management you could keep your dots almost infinitely without the constant need of reaplying them…i do not feel like there will be enough space in new spec for that.
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Mmmm, a few interesting things, but 90 sec on void for only 15 sec uptime and 20 % damage seem too low.
And also, no haste during void.
The whole spec has always been about dots though ? Why play it if you don’t like its gameplay ?
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Publik has done a quick look video already going over the changes
void form will be a burst button i suppose? kinda seems so
Thats not true, and in current toolkit with vf bolt death various procs i dont feel like constant dot refreshing have any slace left. Without voidform stacking haste and refreshing dots you will have to refresh dots on packs in m+ all the time…thats what im worried about.