I think shadowform should be toned down, it should have more of a smoky effect, but not that you become completely purple, that should be reserved for voudform.
Smoke is not shadow! I miss when it turned your mounts shadowy too 
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There is a Glyph that dims it down a little bit, which makes it better. But I still think the shadow form thing should be purely aesthetic. Iād rather show off my trasnmog.
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Shadow is a toned down version of void.
Honestly, i think visually it should be reserved for voidform, also i don;t like the fact that it changed my transmog.
Ok, whatever you say.
Iām not even gonna report you, like lol. Am i supposed to always talk about gameplay?
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No, of course not and youāre always free to say what is on your mind. Shadowform, though? How important is it? Iāve never cared about aesthetics, so Iām somewhat biased
So why even bother commenting on this? Ivāe got just as many problems with wow at the moment as other people in terms of how the game is, but it doesnāt mean i always wanna talk about that.
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Letās talk about the price of fish, then \o/
Flag me almighty flaggers. Unbelievable XD
Does it drive you insane ?
Iām already slightly insane by default. Menial complaints just make me go a bit BRRRRRRRRRRRR
Iāāve spent too many years reading the warlock forums. That is insanity material.ā
Bullsh*t repellant spray at the ready
Try being a void elf when āshadow formā appears every 1 minute, for every class lol
Iām a Holy priest btw
You wanna talk about ārelevantā things?
Fine, s priest aoe is effin terrible. the closest couterpart to shadow aoe that i can think of is assassination.
Both rely on dots to do aoe, multidotting, but at least assassin, can dish out more at a faster rate, and itās aoe skill actually does decent damage, they also have crimson tempest, which honestly, i think if you need to use a certain talent to be proficient at a base aspect of the game, whether that is aoe or st, then they failed class design.
This is especially noticeable for shadow priest, where their aoe ability, searing nightmare, is locked behind talents, at least assassin can do decent aoe, without tempest, but yea.
Please blizzard stop locking specs functionalities behind talents, seriously stop.
Talents should be either improvements on already existing abilities, or complete reworks like glacial spike which would not fit in the base rotation.
There you go, thereās something relevant.
I think weāve had more forum threads about Shadowform visual criticism over the years than I can count.
Recurring topic, obviously because little has changed, so the status quo remains unsatisfactory for some.
Iām not a huge fan of Shadowform myself either. Especially as the fidelity of armor appearances increases and you can transmogrify how you want to look, it feels super depressing to lose that personal expression in exchange for being a purple blob thatās identical to all the other purple blobs.
I think there are numerous solutions that would be satisfying, but it kind of requires that Blizzard does something more significant than a glyph that barely does anything.
Isnāt there a glyph for that?
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Oooh cool! Not really up to date with glyphs these days 
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I still like it because I donāt have to bother with transmog.
My opinion on it varies by char. Iām levelling a tauren priest ATM as shadow because of speed, by but the gods do I hate the fact my char is this vague purple smoke blob. We should get an option to turn the visual off. Void form I can get behind because it had limited uptime.
My unpopular opinion Inc, just remove shadowform altogether. Itās a generic āpress me to deal more dmg and use Xā itās assumed to always be on, just bake it into the spec numbers and add a glyph for those who want the effect.
If an ability is āpress this to functionā with no other maintenance, itās crap and should be a passive. āBut muh flavourā thatās what the glyph would be for. But can anyone say that shadowform represents an actual choice now? Feels meaningful? Back when it locked holy and prevented healing yourself, maybe it did.
Itās basically the equivalent of the tank āhereās Ur sta and armour buffā passives but you have to click it to turn it on. Completely pointless imo.
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Actually, itās not that strange.
At the end of the day all that shadowform does is increase your damage by 10 %, that could easily be implemented into the base rotation, while voidform is the spell that changes appearance, and the gameplay.
So honestly, yea, it could be removed completely and it would not matter at all, it would actually be better because everytime you die you lose shadowform which is annoying, and itās also annoying that your mogs are hidden by shadow.
Itās just a flavor ability that increases your damage at the end of the day.
Itās an almost inconsequential ability.
For me this ability goes into the same category as raid buffs like battle shout, good for āflavorā i guess, but otherwise pointless, and even damaging sometimes, would rather remove.
But as always the muh flavor crowd focuses on irrelevant stuff. Flavor should always be secondary to gameplay, you should try as much as possible to have good flavor, but if it comes down to either flavor or gameplay, then gameplay should ALWAYS win, you fit the flavor inside the gameplay, not the contrary.
Anyway, as a passive it would be fine.
I made a quick concept of how can they give us options to choose between past Shadowforms
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