I want voidform back. Shadow feels like you’re an eleSham without the utility
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I don’t know if that’s entirely necessary. Shadow is almost fine. Two or three small changes would make a big difference for the class.
Void Eruption and Dark ascension should just be instant cast. But it’s not entirely necessary.
Two core things that have to be changed about shadow priest are it’s movement abilities, and it’s defensive.
Some ideas for better defensives.
- Rework dispersion to allow casting.
- Create a new ability similar to pain suppression but it works like this: 3 minute CD, cloak yourself and the lowest health ally in a shadowy mist reducing damage taken by 40% for 6 seconds. I think it would likely be too strong for a DPS to have if it was target able.
- Rework vampiric embrace. While Vampiric brace is active reduce damage taken by 40%.
Movement.
- Shadow needs it’s own unique movement talent rather than feathers. I don’t know what that should be though.
Small things that should be changed.
- Shadow crash needs a slightly larger area of effect.
- Give shadow crash two charges. But has greatly reduced damage from consecutive casts on the same target. This is to allow for when you mess ups on dungeons pulls where you don’t hit anything with crash because of how the tank gathers enemies.
Vampiric Embrace is very problematic when you are unable to cast anything due to movement or being interrupted or stuck in a CC.
It’s only useful when you are able to free cast.
So it would be interesting either baseline or another talent could make it so when you take damage while Vampiric Embrace is active, you automatically heal for a portion of that damage.
Also, maybe the enemy also deals a portion of damage their dealt to you back onto them.
Perhaps also extend to your allies.
So basically taking some aspects of Mindgames and incorporating into Vampiric Embrace.
Inspired by motha Xal’atath… some kind of “Void Gravity”, where Levitate, when cast on yourself, passively adds a 20% speed bonus and only breaks on stuns. This shares a talent node with Angelic Feathers for Shadow only.
Many people suggested changes for shadow crash which I agree with.
If there was something else I would like to see for s priest it’s this:
1: sear back as a choice node with link
2: no 2 point nodes which is something I think should be the goal for every spec in the game
3:I would like double apparition on crit back
4: flay and spike are just slightly different flavors of vanilla, change spike to be a proc only ability that can be used off GCD and in the middle of other casts, moderate proc rate, quite powerful when it procs, generating more or less 12 insanity.
5: make more abilities proc apparitions, mins flay and spike insanity proc it, with archon, but shadow word death still isn’t, and it should proc it when below the execute threshold, or with a deathspeaker proc.
Old Voidform was the best thing that happened to Shadow Priest now it’s a circus