At what point did they start revolve around death and darkness and turn into some lame void mages. I really wanna play Spriest but i cant get around the whole void theme its lame
MADNESS/Sanity is tied to the Void… that’s literally where their Shadow form comes from.
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exactly .i dont know why people want to tone down something that is basically linked to void and darkness just because they dont like darkness
that is pretty much a "you " problem.
Comes off as a weekend thread tbh.
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What were they before in your opinion ?
Void and Light cover a lot of themes in general. Priests are about the mental side of this spectrum I think, where Holy Priests spiritually lead others to give them faith and hope, while Shadow Priest to the opposite, where they confuse and manipulate.
Another theme the void covers is that it’s something that devours, while Light does the opposite and radiates
They are still about death and darkness 
The reason it doesn’t “feel that way anymore”, is just because back in the Classic era, the Warcraft fantasy wasn’t that expansive as it is today, so Shadow Priests were mainly tied to Undead Priests as a “starting point” for that fantasy.
So because the story in the game is now visually moving a bit more into the “pure cosmic void”, and expanding on “void fantasy”, which btw it has ALWAYS been about, it can feels as if “Shadow Priest lore is being rewritten”… But it really isn’t
It’s EXACTLY the same way as how Paladins were “rewritten”. 
Paladins used to be about these “holy warriors that had some divine faith”… where as now holy magic is more of a “science”, and now accessible if you “just believe you are doing the right thing”… 
But that doesn’t mean that Human Paladins in WoW, isn’t about “faith” anymore, just because the holy magic lore was expanded. We still have churches and Human priests/paladins in the classic sense, because that is their culture in the game.
Just like how if you play an Undead Shadow Priest, their “cultural lore” in the game, is about “death magic”.
So the lore is simply evolving as the WoW universe expands.
what happened to shadow priest fantasy
answer: Feet.
If you don’t want to do Void, then don’t do it. Even ability-wise you can make it liveable through Dark Ascension and by not picking the Old Gods’ idols at the last talent tier. As of how did it happen… another thanks to the Legion for that, when spriest’s entire gimmick started revolving around a particular knaifu.
Sounds like legion did a lot of questionable fantasy changes, like turning combat rogues into pirates or making survival hunters melee.
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survival melee everyone had been asking for tho. It was a dead spec for 5 expansions
Isn’t it still? 
Its an overcomplicated confused pseudo melee spec. Whenever I meet one in a BG once in a blue moon I feel like we are both confused - neither me nor the survival hunter know what they are doing.
I get wrecked by Survival hunters in PvP 
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