Absolutely hate the addition of Mind Spike, it will surely push Mind Flay out of our rotation, our most iconic spell, and the last spec that had a channeled spec in the rotation. Now with everything in gnomeregan most likely will be disease immune so we will be forced to only use half of the effect of the rune Twisted Fate… Vampiric Touch wouldve fixed so many problems for shadow priest… So we will use ½ of one of our runes then have 2 damaging runes in mind spike and sw:d, a cd in shadow fiend, and then another dead rune slot for pve in dispersion…
Or we might not get to use shadow fiend because the only reason to bring a shadow priest would be for the homunculi debuff, either way, none of this feels great to the shadow priest. Atleast with vampiric touch we wouldve brought great raid utility.
And it wouldve been less of a problem for people to deal with in pvp i bet.
Feels to me like there has been some huge oversights when making shadow priest runes.
So my plea to blizzard is:
Please give us Vampiric Touch as an alternative to Mind Spike so that people who like to play shadow priest can still get the option to play it. With mind spike you might aswell play destruction warlock as its essentially just gonna be a worse warlock spec now.
it seems to me like blizzard put zero thought into these runes and just gave us a random shadow ability without putting any thought into how our rotation works or feels…
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Everyone wants VT but as usual blizzard thinks they know better, I have my doubts as well
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Isnt both dispersion and pain supression potentially really useful in PvE? Other than that I agree, making mind flay useless in the pve rotation is awful. One potentially cool fix could be you have three charges of mind spike each with their own CD.
I agree… mind spike is a complete miss. No idea what intern had that idea…
Making Mind-Flay useless is completely strange and i just can’t believe that this is gonna be it… maybe we are still missing a piece of the puzzle, but right now Shadowpriest is a hard pass in pve.
Just hope we get Dual Specc at least so we can swap for pve and pvp
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I kinda wonder tho, how useful would a SP be even with VT? At least most bosses (and trash) in BFD die so fast you barely get any benefit from the mana regen anyways, and your overall dmg is still gonna be low compared to melee.
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you shouldnt be running out of mana if you have shadowfiend, and mana pots, and a raid decent raid comp, so why would you ever use that in a pve setting where you are supposed to be a dps? the only way its useful then is if you messed up your positioning and need a panic button to get out of a sticky situation
Im not sure yet about mind spike but I definitly dont want to see VT for SP.
I want to play an actual dps specc not a support meme again that only gets taken into raids because it brings 1 usefull thing.
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Bro wanding is better than Mind Flay.
what are you talking about? That spell is already dead.
I didnt like the idea of having another spell with 1.5 sec cast but still there is no correlation between these two topics.
with twisted fate, shadow form and despair it wouldve been so much fun… however mind flay in it self could definitely use a rune for it to do a bit more than it does currently, id have loved to see them incorporate something like sending shadowy apparitions at its target everytime it ticks
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the datamined crit rune could maybe apply to mind flay if they actually end up implementing it.
it will definitely apply to mind flay, but if we have to stack 3x mind spikes inbetween mind blasts for optimal dps then there is still no time to fit in a mind flay without losing dps… thats my big issue, there is just no room for mind flay as soon as you implement mind spike it completely changes the gameplay
its just sad to see a rune do that on a hybrid class since we dont get alot of other rune options for our spec like pure dps classes who get 4 different runes to chose from
There is only 1 pure dps class
1 useful thing still better than none