Check wowhead.com for more info on other specs/classes.
For spriest though, DP upfront damage increased and heals you for 50% of the damage.
Edit: Mastery now affects Devouring Plague; new Soulbind Conduits.
NEW Mind Devourer Potency Conduit Mind Blast deals an additional 5% damage and has a 10% chance to make your next Devouring Plague cost no insanity.
NEW Dissonant Echoes Potency Conduit Void Bolt has a 5% chance to reset the cooldown on Void Bolt.
NEW Mental Recovery Finesse Conduit After Psychic Scream ends, affected targets’ movement speed is reduced by 40% for 5 sec.
himmering Apparitions Potency Conduit When your Shadow Word: Pain deals non-critical damage, you have a 5% chance to create a Shadowy Apparition.
Potency Conduit Shadowfiend attack speed is increased by 20%, and it deals 10% more damage.
I like these for pvp, the % seem way too low tho.
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Bunch of nonsense IMHO.
The whole soulbind, conduit system confuses the heck out of me. Are these based off of which covenant you choose because Mind Devourer sounds nice and like it will help a bit but it’s a shame if it’s tied to a specific covenant.
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Conduits are a slot in every soulbind, regardless covenant. There are three different types of conduits: endurance, potency, and finesse. The conduit type has to match the slot in the Soulbind tree.
Edit: updated the proper names of the types of conduit slots.
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basically their idea for fixing our pitfalls is to give us TBC style gem sockets that we socket into a faction-based talent tree.
yes, this is blizzard admitting that they know we loved the old talent tree idea. yes, this is just gem sockets but instead of base stats, it’s rotation altering, game breaking mechanics that are impossible to balance that become obsolete next expansion , and yes, i am as confused as you brother
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This is about the level of stuff I expected from conduits. So I don’t mind them as individual items in a vacuum. They don’t look powerful, they very likely aren’t, and they do “something”.
However, this isn’t enough to fix the problems shadow has, especially when everyone is getting conduits and theirs are similar or of a better calibre than these.
Bliz needs to take a long hard look at the base spec, borrowed power fluff is “fine”, and it’s good to see the full picture, but it’s not fixing anything.
Other specs get their borrowed power as icing on the cake, shadow feels like it relies on them to make everything work in the first place… I don’t even think these do that though tbf, they’re the sort of thing I’d welcome if the class worked baseline, but it doesn’t.
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Thank you for explaining. Having so many systems thrown at us at once is a lot for me to take in and I keep getting them mixed up lol.
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why not just give all classes brand new talent trees as core feature, with the covenants granting us a bonus talent tier that gave our class a little covenant themed sub class flavor
edit: and bring back the gem sockets
Conclusion : shadowpriest is screwed.
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yeah it’s bs. every other class is step 1 -> do damage. for us it’s, step 1. do 20 jumping jacks, do a back flip, call your aunt and tell her shes a nice lady, quit your job to farm conduits, and die to world quests for a month -> step 2. do damage
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And when we get this this point the mob is already at 1/3 HP after a long agonizing ramp " jumping jacks "
VF is really useless for i’d say well over 50% of the open world / questing content.
Ooof. These aren’t good for anyone. Shame they didn’t give us more, or anything unique rather. And those conduits are all lackluster. If the void bolt cooldown proc was like 25%, I’d be fine with that one.
DP could be a valid open world resource spender if it actually devoured anything. I think it should work like the Lich King’s [ Necrotic Plague ]
(https://www.wowhead.com/?spell=70337) 50,000 yd range — Infects the target with a deadly plague, causing X Shadow damage every 5 seconds for 15 seconds. If the target dies while afflicted, or the effect expires after its 15 sec duration, this effect will gain an additional stack and jump to a nearby unit. The 15 sec timer is refreshed after each jump. If this effect is dispelled, it will lose a stack and jump to a nearby unit in a 10 yard distance, if there is no target the plague will be removed completely. Whenever this effect jumps, the caster’s power will increase. Instant. Disease.
An easy way for shadow priests to mop up packs of mobs as we cull the weak with mind sear or shadow word: death spam. The extra healing from a more “infectious” DP would compliment VE
but hey yall wanna stop flaring up and sit in a circle to discuss how to make VF work as if Blizz going to read the forums.
Let me be very clear if they were to read any feedback it would be the one on the official alpha.
we had there attention and now they think we got over it because a couple of guys who like VF told you it not going away this expansion so shut up.
Don’t bother keeping up the #removevoidform it has little impact now. First punch is always the hardest .
Just wondering did they listen to any of your suggestions?..yeah didnt think so.
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Ehhh I doubt that’s the reason we didn’t see any huge changes this time around. But if it makes you feel better believing that. And btw don’t take this as I want them to keep VF because I want it gone just as much as you do but I highly doubt the reason there weren’t more changes was because the #removevoidform slowed down.
Not that but what I meant is we should’ve kept it and all the people coming form discord screaming shut up so they can hear us should’ve posted on the official Alpha feedback…you know the one they are monitoring.
if yall really wanna fix it why didnt you guys post on it yet?
Did those people actually say they had alpha access? Because if they didn’t that could be why they’re posting in the class forums and not the alpha ones. Maybe in hopes that someone that doesn’t frequent the discord but has alpha sees it and can maybe throw some of the ideas in the alpha forums. I get you’re frustrated but it does absolutely nothing taking it out like this.
they have constantly asked the community to come together to stop the #removevoidform but didn’t bother to ask who has access to alpha?
come on, they came from discord where they congregated and none of them bothered to ask who has alpha (even though I remember some mentioning they did) solely to tell the #removevoidofrm to stop. I have explained multiple times that this can be channeled in a positive way and they should start posting on the alpha rather than asking us to shut up because Blizz is definitely monitoring that but I got told that I’m a spammer and I only hate VF so my opinion is invalid.
I did stop because most of the people who were keeping the # with me actually bought into this whole nonsense but the reality is they got played. the agenda was to stop #removevodiform and it worked.
If it wasn’t again why didn’t they post on the alpha feedback? when there were people in discord with access
I think you should stop with the conspiracy theories, frankly.
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