Warlock or Shadow Priest?

Left it a bit late TW bonanza is over, you could have done both with all the bonus XP flying around.
Anyway for years now there have been loads of locks for the first few weeks of every patch but they peter out by the end of the first month. SP on the other hand seem consistent prob because they been OP for a few years. Now they say SP is getting nerfed next time around but they always say that. What ever tho theres always a spot for a summon portal jockey in raiding. In general tho it appear the lock appeal doesnt last where as SP does.

Warlock gameplay is boring as hell, shadow priest on the other hand has one of the smoothest caster gameplays in the game. On the other hand tho warlocks has 3 dps specs while priest only has 1 so if all you want to do is pewpew then warlocks might be a better choice. This is however my personal opinion so your experience might be different.

As a SP I am going to suggest go Warlock for the next patch. SP has been nerfed and while I have not tested this yet my gut tells me we going to struggle a bit. If its casual you playing then choose which ever one you want. If its for M+ etc be weary about the nerfs.

warlock is tanky, has pets, has true DoTs and drains

SP has better pvp options and support spells

Warlock for pve
sp for pvp

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Warlock. It has 3 dps specs to specs to choose from while SP has only one and if you do not like healing and SP is nerfed to crap or they change the playstyle to crap then have fun with that.

Warlock’s only drawback to me seems to be you can’t play the human toilet masochist specs with it.

Same with you though, you said that warlock is super strong at all times. There are almost no warlocks in current m+ now

warlock is the only choice you can go several patches while being super broken while shadow priest would have been nerfed into oblivion by then since devs hate shadow priest

Lock is consistently at least a 1 of in every raid tier. Dungeons in S2 season I agree but it’s a bit of an anomaly given lock had a place in high keys since the start of Shadowlands otherwise.

Shadow is competing with tanks on the ptr for overall damage in m+ and bliz don’t seem intent on changing that with either mechanical alterations or tuning. It might, might be serviceable by 10.2.5 but that’s a long time to wait.

Malefic Rapture
Malefic Rapture
Malefic Rapture

Dot, dot.

Malefic Rapture
Malefic Rapture
Malefic Rapture

Preferred unstable spam <.<

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Is that how it is in PvE?

In PvP it’s all about keeping all the DOT on the 3 targets. You can’t really spam Rapture all that much because you usually have 2 melees on your preventing you from doing that.

I guess the spec is more interesting in PvP then.

I think this is what it boils down to. No one can decide what someone else prefers.

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Yes and no, you need to keep the dots on targets, and use shards on rapture/seed.

SP is getting severely gimped in 10.2 if that matters to you.

Plus Blizz changes it so frequently…

what are you on about?

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Avoid SP for now, ST is bad, AoE is clunky as hell as you only have Shadow Crash, which has travel time and 20 seconds CD, to apply your dots in an area, the 4P is terrible, and you don’t bring anything that a discipline/holy doesn’t bring to the table.

Disco is very strong atm though.

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