Hello everyone!
I’ve been a shadow priest enjoyer since i ever started playing this game, which was back in BfA (around 5 years ago).
That was the peak of fun for me as a Shadow Priest player;
The class had its flaws, mostly due to the need for very specific builds all based on borrowed power, but it was very unique and fun, and above all had its own identity.
Then came Shadowlands, the first in my opinion of the steep descent in terms of fun playing this class and the first step thowards this class’s massive lack of identity.
Since then, there has been a kind of void (pun intended) in me;
I knew I wasn’t having as much fun as I wanted to, and at the same time, trying and gearing up other classes, there was nothing that could make me enjoy it as much as I did playing Shadow in BfA;
And I’m really sorry to say that this rework is yet another disappointment;
Not only have the problems that were supposed to be solved in the first rework not been effectively solved after 3 reworks, but since then the class has been a real nightmare to main, with button bloat, constant reworks, very uncommunicative devs for what the situation is, and a real loss of direction in terms of class design in every way.
I have already given more constructive technical feedback on the forum, but honestly, I don’t even know if it will be considered as it raises points that many others have pointed out and that were not listened to after the second iteration of this rework in the patch the day before yesterday;
I know it is still early to give a final verdict and that there are still many days until 10.1, but that’s not completely the point of this post, and even if it were, the general direction of the rework, as with many others, I do not like at all;
They simply removed a spell and added an interaction to the already existing talent Psychic Link, and split what we had before with an extra talent point in the talent tree. (essentially watered it down to compensate)
I know not everyone likes the old Void Form and prefer the current iteration of the class overall, but I was hoping that in Dragonflight all the major groups of the Shadow Priest community (Old VF vs Pre-Legion Shadow Priest) would be satisfied, something that the talent tree would allow with a some extra effort from the devs;
And don’t get me wrong, as long as there is a real effort to actually scrap the old design and build something completely new and fun, i’d have been completely up and excited for it!
But i feel like many others that that hasn’t been the case so far.
I feel like most Shadow Priest players right now (me included) play the class mostly because of its amazing theme tied to the Old Gods and the Void. That’s why I was so hyped but then disappointed for the idols in the Dragonflight beta.
My idea of making the majority of the community happy also seemed to be their intention from the premises of the Dragonflight beta, where they said that our talent tree would have the motto “build your own Shadow Priest”.
I’m just sad that it hasn’t been the case.
And please don’t read this point as a rant, i’m just really discouraged and hopefull to finally be able to play the spec i love in a game that i so enjoy.