So the vast majority of shadow priest players absolutely hate voidform and the entire insanity mechanic. It was a gimmick in legion that was fun because it was broken, then it became balanced and thus unfun in bfa and now its useless and inhibiting in shadowlands.
most paladins agree that holy power as a mechanic is unfun and they took it away from prot and holy because of that. now its back for all specs in shadowlands???
melee survival was a meme in legion, a worse meme in bfa, and its still here for shadowlands???
Wait. What’s wrong with shadow priests. I just started one. I thought the void form/insantiy thing was kind neat. I mean I turn it off after combat. Void elves are pretty, but I thought it was still kind of a cool touch.
No just misplaced priorities due to bad vision of what the game and genre is.
A lot of the guys from the D3 team got moved to WoW years ago. So the ARPG influence is all over the retail product much to its detriment. Be it solo play, endless grind for character power, greater rifts, etc.
While not all of these are equally offensive none of them are in the spirit of the MMORPG and the game suffers for it.
It’s sort of a common opinion. You can pop over to the priest forums and there’s a whole bunch of threads, some of them very large and extensive, about shadow’s problems. One of the leading subjects is “everything that’s wrong with voidform and insanity”
It’s not a very well liked mechanic in its current state, even during Legion it was disliked. The consensus is it needs to be removed or improved because it’s negatively impacting the spec.
Oh noo. I’m not going to do that. I came here out of mild curiosity. I’m not going to go thread diving just because the thing the current thread is talking about isn’t actually explained in the thread. That’s cool. Perhaps it does suck. I’m not that worried about it.
I’m a shadow priest main I have 12 priests and raid mythic with two of them, I enjoy insanity and everyone I know likes the mechanic’s concept if not its exact mechanics at the moment.
I don’t trust anything the forums have to say, people come to the forums to complain not to say stuff like “Yeah, it’s pretty good. I think it could be better but I don’t have any real complaints.”
I mean. I guess that’s an opinion to have. Though dropping a link on a forum thread, a media design for discussing, and just going “read that” isn’t really good form. In either a business or personal setting, but you do you. I’m not going to derail the thread. If someone wants to explain that’s fine. If not. It’s another forum thread. I’m not sweating it.
You could say that about any form of feedback and make it sound valid. I think DHs should do double their current DPS, it would really make the class pop.
That’s fair. I was talking more about it being aesthetically pleasing. If there’s a balance issue then it probably needs to be looked at. I just know people always say that they feel the classes are becoming homogenized and I think that void form, at least on a visual level, is pretty unique.
Also, DH’s can have more damage if they’re willing to trade. They agree to give us those cool wings and you got a deal.
I personally liked shadow priest before they decided to make it based on void instead of shadow. Shadow ravens were cool, older void form looked nicer imo. Can’t stand void form or its mechanics so I stopped playing it in Legion.
It’s like survival hunter though - some people like the change other people hate it
