Was the coolest, effective, FUN, class fantasy spell we ever had and only got it for such a short time. That is all 
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I felt like it would always instantly break to dots even if I pre-shielded myself but it’s been so long I may be misremembering.
Breaking from dots was a risk to be sure.
But that just means you needed to find other ways to use it.
One way I liked to use it is to pre set up feathers and then I can use Spectral Guise and run into my feathers and you can cross the map a long distance before loosing stealth and pop out the other side.
Worked great to get behind enemy lines in battle grounds and Ashran.
Also you can Mass Dispel yourself prior to shielding and then Spectral Guise. Of course if you’re poisoned or bleeding, then you had to deal with that another way via an item or someone else removing it.
You can also time it so a warrior can charge your Guise or a Death Knight will grip your guise instead of you allowing you more time to play keep away and get your dots out.
You can use Spectral Guise and walk in a hunter ice trap and you can be stealthed while frozen.
There are some others I can’t quite recall as well.
I think the PvP video Anboni made in WoD shows a lot of opportunities of Spectral Guise use and why it can be such a good spell and still in today’s modern game can find such uses once again.
You can find his vid in this link below alongside a link to my thread showing other videos of Shadow prior to the removal of both Spectral Guise and the addition of Voidform.
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Yeah those are some pretty good points. I’m just picturing trying to use it in arena currently and have 14 BM hunter pets attacking me with 5 dots up or a Warrior bladestorming every 15 sec on top of me or an Unholy DK with dots+pets and it just insta breaking every time. I could see more use of it in 2’s or duels potentially.
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That would be a good time to use Cascade (if we still had it) alongside Vampiric Embrace as all those targets will net a lot of healing let alone the damage it causes.
If my feedback we’re to be considered and Cascade became a part of our toolkit to be either a dot spreader to compete or replace Shadow Crash or just returned as a burst AOE damage spell alongside my wanting Shadow to be split into a Periodic and Non-Periodic damage builds that focus both our primary cooldowns to lean one side or the other with other supporting talents and possibly the Hero Path options further leaning into those 2 distinct damage types, then the Cascade usage alongside a Non-Periodic damage enhanced build would (should) do a LOT of damage and with Vampiric Embrace healing returning a portion of the damage done as health, I think those situations you are mentioning would not be as frightening.
What’s nice is that the Cascade trick I just mentioned wouldn’t even be that strong in low target situations as it’s only really powerful when you need it, when a lot of targets are on the screen.
So it seems to cancel out the entire many target Zerg scenarios you are describing.
But hey, priests can’t have nice things, didn’t you get the wow dev memo? Lol
Multiple Cascades thrown in a BG was one of the most beautiful things ever, and watching the poor guy in the back getting hit for 30% his hp and dying out of no where was cool too haha.
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