I do agree here. When in void form you are constantly casting. You are actually encouraged to constantly pre spam your next ability key not to lose even a few miliseconds, so you can do optimal dps.
Out of curiosity, what are you doing if not casting any of our damage spells at low stacks while we’re essentially locked at 100 insanity?
Main point, you’re actually making the argument that DP should be cast in this scenario.
Just bring back Shadow Orbs and remove Insanity. We already have DP back. Blizz are just trying to make insanity work, despite it’s many flaws, just because they already designed it. It’s just being hard headed for the sake of doing it.
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Exactly think. The dev’s can be stupidly obstinate.
I also hate voidform and wish they’d remove it.
Sadly it isn’t going anywhere any time soon.
But hey, I don’t theorycraft, or pretend to care about the numbers lurking somewhere beneath the ability.
Just find it clunky and horrible. Always have.
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Oh good they’re ignoring everyones feedback and doing the opposite of what anyone asked for.
We finally get DP back and they tie it to that dumpster fire called voidform lol
#classicblizzard
Looks like I’ll be skipping shadow again this xpac
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I actually like Voidform because it feels like kind of a mini-game and it’s not very proc-dependent. Once you reach mid-xpac or later, also much faster-paced than the old shadow orbs style.
That being said, the older style was easier to balance and was more competitive. I also feel like the old Devouring Plague / Orb style had more self-healing, which I appreciate.
I don’t hate Voidform. But I also don’t love it, either. If we exchanged it for the old Orb system, I wouldn’t feel bad.
I do think people who want to go back to the old Orb style aren’t considering how several of the same issues will persist. Devouring Plague was not “burst” unless you were using it in an arena. It was not burst in any PVE sense, especially for M+/raiding. We’d still have no burst CD. Shadowfiend would still be lame. And while it would be easier to play and would fit a wider range of content, it would also be more boring.
Cant wait to find ways to weave devouring plague into my voidform rotation since im sitting at 100 insanity for the first 5 minutes of it anyways.
Not.
Delete voidform, or actually make it cool man. I hate this stupid mechanic.
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dude the new go to is gonna be weaving VE and DP back to back.
I feel like devouring plague is going to make things 200x more clunky and there will be -500 flow to our rotation.
It always felt like voidform was a good concept for a 2 min cd that blizz tried to make into a rotational ability for some reason. The concept of it is unique and different but having it tied to an active ability that has to be ramped up and cycled every time makes it feel like exactly that - a mini 2 min cd being used over and over.
Making competing abilities will more or less just result in the same thing, either a cycling burst ability in which the spec revolves around (Ugh…chaosbolt,starsurge,etc) or another ability that doesn’t do much outside of void.
At this point, (imo) voidform needs to be baked into insanity, at least the haste aspect of it and route damage bonus to baseline. Voideruption and voidbolt will instead generate insanity and will be part of maintaining it, as it wouldn’t be a static resource anymore. Devplague would remain the spender, sacrificing haste for burst damage. Perhaps the higher insanity you get the more unstable it will be making it more difficult to maintain than lower amounts of insanity. Voidform can replace pi and instantly grant 100 insanity on a 2 min cd.
If voidform was a two min cooldown that let you cast mind blast while channeling mindflay and it extended your dots while giving you a sizable boost to mastery, crit or haste it would be amazing.
It keeps the core rotation the same but better.
I am not a fan of Voidform at all. Personally, I really enjoyed Shadow Priest in MoP and wish we could go back to MoP spriest design with shadow orbs.
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Full support for #removevoidform
We are supposed to make our enemies go insane. Why TF do we make ourselves go insane now instead?
Also, it would be nice to have shadowform appearance options in SL like picking Druid forms at character creation. That way you don’t have to have that purple fog if you don’t like it. Maybe let voidform be one of the options, so that the void fanboys and fangirls can keep their “voidform”. Meanwhile, the rest of us can go back to shadow orb DP with shadow ravens! Oh and “blue lightning” glyph for mindflay (the classic style animation) .
Yes, I know that most of my feedback here is aesthetic. That is because many others have already offered excellent “mechanic” recommendations.
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