Search old posts if you want to see what the community was talking about when they implemented the now SL iteration of shadow.
Here is an example of a thread that discussed the issues.
Tonight, Chris Kaleiki tweeted what seems to be a hint about upcoming Shadow Priest changes. This possibility was furthered by his likes and replies to comments on the tweet here:
Heres hoping fellow Shadow brethren. Here’s hoping…
I think there is still hope in making it work. I am not on alpha so I don’t really know the flow of how shadow priests feel on there, but playing one on live and wondering if I had devouring plague NOW, I could really see some nice changes. For example when our insanity is draining at the beginning of our voidform, it drains pretty slowly and so it tends to overflow. Devouring plague could be incorporated so that it’s something we spend when we have a little too much insanity you know? So we can…
The praise for the shadow changes to VoidForm is now gone and maybe back to worse than it was before.
So I’ve seen alot of ideas of how to fix Devouring Plague and then I remembered a mechanic from a old MMOs whose name I can’t remember (everyone had wings) that I feel would shine here.
What if whenever you apply DP while DP is already on the target, instead of just clipping it, the old DP would be fully removed and the remaining dmg from it would instantly be dealt to the target and the new DP would be applied at it’s regular duration? It would give an incentive to apply DP as fast as you can,…
I’m constantly casting dots now since I can’t voidform to extend them. VT and SW:P are too far apart in duration without void bolt to increase them. Devouring Plague needs to extend duration of dots by 3 seconds. Misery Talent needs to extend SW:P by 5 seconds to match VT.
Voidbolt at this point should go away and the damage and CD just merged into MindBlast alone. Why the extra button conversion from a 90sec CD. It’s cumbersome to have it be a 90 CD and a 3.5 sec CD on same button. It wo…
So disagree all you want, but it was NOT widely accepted… it was reluctantly accepted due to time restraints.
Edit:
Devouring Plague was one of the better things that came from the SL changes. But… it was still a “band-aid” in that it did not “Solve” the underlying issues that plagues Shadow.
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