The status of shadow priest in pvp

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I’ve been playing sod since the start and I’ve been enjoying most part of it.
I main shadowpriest and it might be better not to tell how many hours I’ ve been on this char.
Most of the phases I’ve been also enjoying pvp, p1 and 2 were good , in phase 3 we were too strong, got nerfed and from that moment on it actually went nothing but downhill for us.
Where someone once said ‘‘We rather buff the other classes than nerfing that specific class’’ he meant to say ‘‘We rather buff the other classes than nerfing that specific class except for shadow priest we just nerf them untill no one plays them anymore in pvp’’.

Having the void plague rune switch boots slot in the certain phase was completely understandable because we were too strong.
But not having it back where it belongs… on the chest slot by now is really mind blowing.
And than phase 5 where our pvp got nerfed into the ground where it’s not even fun to play shadowpriest anymore.
Vampiric Embrace the talent itself got nerfed the only thing that kept us a bit allive. The increased magic damage reduction and I believe the healing got nerfed as well. So basicly a triple nerf in p5 for us and as cherry on the top you decide than its also good to fix inner fire at that moment while it has been broken for 3-4 months already.
So at the moment , we do no damage do we go for dispersion we have negative damage, no self sustain any longer. So with other words spriest pvp is BAD.

Meanwhile rogues do more than in 2 minutes than I do in a whole day.
Boomies press 1 button and everything around them drop dead like a fly.
Hunter press 2 buttons and ur dead or you are in a freeze trap 24/7 and wish u were dead.
Paladin sit 12 sec in their bubble with no counterplay possible at all.
Feral druid would take me approx a year to kill so tanky they are.
And I prob forgot some classes…

We have to work so hard to get 1 kill and that is when we play perfectly… one little tiny mistake and ur deadge.
As last I wonder if u could give me any insight in what kinda nerfs you gonna give to priest in p6 jokes asside.
I think void plague should return back to the chest slot so atleast we have some of our survivalbility back without loosing any dmg.

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Already wondered where all the SPs went, they were insanely abnoxious previous phases but don’t really notice them anymore.

Now boombies do higher dots then SPs…. Makes sense

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I have seen shadow priest do decent but they tend to be back of the pack hiding and pew pewing from a far.

I can tank another warrior / rogue for half an hour but a druid comes along and press’s a button twice and I’m melted into the ground

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They are pretty good in PVE I do admit that (even tho I heal raids).
Ye shadowpriest phase 3 was … I dont know … maybe to easy, sometimes I do some pvp on my boomie press one button and everything dissapears around me.
So I kinda like it to work for the kill but as shadowpriest u need so much at the moment to make any chance.

Like coffeeshop says its better in pvp to be somewhere hidden in pve gear blasting with ur new tier 2 set bonusses and trinket than ur pretty strong. Other than that u really have to work for ur kill.
But im just sadge that the devs said ‘‘we rather buff the other classes than nerf one’’ and than nerf priest 3times in p5… I guess I should have known by now never to trust any words they’re saying.

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Hey, I think this topic needs a bit of refresh, so here I am.

Yes, Shadow Priest was kinda disappointing in Phase 4, but now really shines in Phase 5, both in PVE (thanks to the two T2 variants) and PVP.

My POV and a few tips for PVP:

In terme of gameplay SP is fragile, so keep distance, hide behind others, knowing the Shadow Reach talent allows you to cast almost everything from a fair distance, similar to a hunt (but not as far).

If you don’t play Troll, get your Shadowguard extra racial at Karazhan Chapel, this might proc a blackout on sneaky rogues, ruining their opener. Playing Forsaken is even better for this since you can have both Shadowguard and Touch of Weakness to proc blackout on melees. This can save your delicate toon so refresh both racials everytime.

Keep in mind dealing damage with dots takes time. Also dots can crit now, thanks to Despair rune, which is wild.

Always apply at least Pain on target, this will greatly improve damage on others spells such Mind Blast, thanks to Twisted Faith rune.

Dispell your friends as well as your foes, very important. Priests are also unique for this, so keep an eye on others.

Sadly Void Plague and Dispersion are now boots runes, so you got to choose. I suggest Dispersion since the big mana regen + survivability is too important to pass on for most encounters (it’s our shadow bubble after all).

But the best of the best, the must have for any SP, is the new epic trinket for Priest you get from a quest item dropped by Chromaggus in BWL:

:bat: Cassandra’s Tome :bat:

  • 47 Shadow Spells Power
  • 70 Healing Power
  • 100% crit guaranteed for next spell on use (2 mins CD)

Get this tricket ASAP, period.

Apply Pain > Use Cassandra’s Tome > Cast Mind Blast > Spam Death during the cast > Game Over :skull:

With this you can delete most health bars in one shot, sending unsuspecting players back to the nearest graveyard sooner that expected, so they can meditate on what actually happened to them. :ghost:

Most Paladins will waste their bubble on this and healers will sweat.

Enjoy the shadows

\o/

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I laughed really hard, so true

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Sorry for the late reaction but you are right, I eventually figured it out myself due to spell batching u have a small window to use mindblast + SWD and they both will crit.
That doesn’t take away that it’s still a lot easier for most classes to kill someone than it is for priest.
I’m running fear ward since I play healer PVE and with rank 13 set I play shadow PVP ( I’m an undead priest ).

But during phase 6 I’ve noticed that they haven’t been doing much testing themself.
For example one set bonus made it possible for shadowpriest to cast Flash heal in shadowform.
So a lot of priest went for 2 points in healing focus, until I and probably a lot more found out that while in shadow form healing focus does not work so we stopped skilling that.
Now with the tier2 healing set bonus you can get a Deliverance proc that can be triggered by any healing over time spell.
It basicly makes every spell an insta cast, thats not that crazy.
But now I switch out of healing spec into shadowspec but I keep the proc.
So what you can do now is SWP > Trinket > insta Mindblast > SWD - I’m pretty sure it shouldn’t work like that but I’m fine with it at this point.

I also must admit that I’m surprised you don’t have trinket (at least the more used ones) keybinded but I guess everyone his own playstyle.
I do remember I think in phase 3 before the point u finally unlock shadowform that there were just to many buttons to click and to many to be key binded.
I was so goddam happy when I casted shadowform I saw the actionbar toggling over to actionbar 5 or something.
So I had finaly enough space to keybind the heals on the actionbar and other spells on those places in shadowform :smiley:

Anyway I can’t wait for AQ40 to happen so the era of the dispelling bot in MC and BWL are over :slight_smile: