Blizz: “Hey guys, we know your spec doesn’t work. BUT, it might work once you have all your soul binds, legendaries, and the right covenant ability! So just sit tight and maybe the spec is fine.”
Shadow Priests: “Shouldn’t the spec work and these other things improve / modify it?”
Blizz: “Nah. Specs don’t have to work by themselves. Hell, classes don’t have to work by themselves. Go talk to a vampire to get the rest of your spells.”
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I’m guessing that’s from the last interview?? I don’t keep up with this.
They’ve really shot themselves in the foot. This is going to repeat every single time just replace the class/spec each expansion.
I don’t think this kind of borrowed power system is sustainable, just creates more work for them to reconstruct specs so they end up feeling barebones again, poop, or OP.
Edit: I have a sneaky suspicion that someone there thought up of Artifact weapons back in Legion and now they don’t want to cave in to say that it’s not a good system.
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What the crack are you talking about?
Artifacts were great.
Wielding Doom Hammer. You kidding me right? That sucked?
There was more to the system then the fantasy of it… that is what I was referring to. Many frontloaded talents, changing a lot how specs function… which would feel bad after they were gone which it did, rinse and repeat.
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Remove voidform and revert Shadow Priest back to how it was in Cataclysm-MoP.
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No, that would be admitting our old boss’s ideas were better than our VOID INSPIRED class changes! You’re not my dad! - Blizzard
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I might get a forum vacation for saying this but whoever designed Shadow Priest from Legion onwards deserves to be fired immediately for the atrocity they committed in the name of class design/class fantasy. Once azerite traits are gone in Shadowlands you can enjoy Shadow Priests being outdps’d by healers again, the spec in its current state is single handedly being kept above healer dps by Chorus of Insanity, and once that is gone… the catalyst is going to be bittersweet to watch.
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Nah legion SP was amazing.
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No it wasn’t, you obviously didn’t play shadow priest before the legion redesign or you wouldn’t say such a thing. Voidform is an utter disaster and the only reason it even worked in legion was because of the artifact, and now shadow priest is barely kept above healer dps thanks to Chorus of Insanity.
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Even better
Wielding the Ashbringer
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And then, you threw it in your bags/banks to rot away after giving away its power! How dare you…
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I did, and no, it wasnt better before the Legion redesign. If you’re having trouble out-dpsing healers right now, CoI is the least of your worries.
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I played shadow all of Legion and it was the most fun I had with any class since Warlocks in MoP if not the very best experience I have ever had with a spec ever in WoW.
Not every priest player wants to revert to purple combo points which in my opinion was shallow in its implementation and never really fit in with the shadow priest theme.
As for the OP, he is mostly just imagining a fake conversation that never happened. Not sure if he is pulling it from anywhere.
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The irony in you saying this as you have 3x Chorus of Insanity stacked as you should. Try playing without those azerite traits and see how well you do on the meters, you’re proving my point. Once that is gone you will indeed be outdps’d by healers because the spec is currently completely designed around borrowed powers. I’m not sure if you’re trolling or not but you can have a stroll around shadow priest in alpha so you can see how “well” the spec is performing without those borrowed powers.
Well then you’re in the minority, and designing things around the minority and not the majority gets us where we are today. The current problems with shadow priests are so severe that Blizzard STILL doesn’t have a clue on how to fix the spec.
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Legion Shadow Priest was “strong” because talents like surrender to madness were straight up broken and the class as a whole was completely propped up by gear.
BfA 8.0 Shadow Priest is what you get when you remove all these crutches (garbage at all aspects of the game)
8.1-8.3 Shadowpriest is what you get when you try and replace those crutches with Azerite traits, Essences and other forms of borrowed power (only good in raids)
Now 9.0 Shadowpriest we are losing all this borrowed power once again, everyone on alpha who has tested spriest can attest to how horrible the spec feels right now.
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Are you trying to go for one-liners or try to understand what they were actually saying?
When Shadow loses its Azerite traits, lucid dreams, etc it will feel terrible to play.
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Oh hush. You have no way to gauge that. Stop talking out your butt.
I don’t see why you’d get a forum vacation for that. I do somewhat agree on the chrous of insanity thing though, it feels too good to pass up which is an issue with the azerite system as a whole.
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Have a look around the priest forums, have a look around the alpha forums for priests who actually play the class, take a look at all the videos done by content creators that have mained shadow priest since it’s exception, and lastly have a look at shadow priest in alpha, the spec literally doesn’t even function, that’s how bad it is. You obviously don’t even know what you’re talking about, the spec is garbage in all aspects of the game except for raiding, but looking at your profile you obviously haven’t attempted any such content so of course you wouldn’t know why current shadow priest design is problematic.
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Are you suggesting that any other spec can forego its best azerite traits and still expect to compete?
Until the next system comes in fill in the gaps, anyways.
Here’s the thing. No class could just ignore thier artifact and expect to perform in Legion. No class can ignore their azerite traits and expect to perform in BfA. The classes dont work without these major systems, i get it. But youre never going to be playing said class without those systems anyways
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