Dragonflight: How Warlocks can Abuse Shadow Priests

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Thank me later.

This is how you shut down a puny Shadow Priest, who gets overly excited about having some instant-cast abilities back:

  1. Banish Shadow’s 1-min Mindbender - that’s all their burst damage and only time window when you can die to a Shadow
  2. Amplified Curse of Tongue on Shadow Priest every 30 seconds so they cannot cast
  3. Hold your Pet Stun (Axe Toss) till you are CC-ed (Stunned or Silenced) - then use the Pet Stun/Interrupt to stop Mindgames. So you should track (with Omnibar) Psychic Horror and Silence CDs.
  4. Hold your Dark Pact till Psyfiend - so you don’t need to use Coil to heal and can tank through Psyfiend window even if you can’t kill it.

Then it’s GG - their mediocre dot dmg won’t dent your health till 30% dampen or so. You probably won’t lose to a Shadow.

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Ok so how do i beat uh dk now?

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Just run during PI or purge it, you will be okay, for a moment…

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I feel personally attacked

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Shadow has like 4 different builds. Mindbender one is the most versatile but you do have other options that give you good damage outside of it.

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haha me too

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Mindbender during fear so it doesn’t break, free cast mindgames void torrent shadowcrash etc… good luck

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spriest is fine stop overreacting to nothing.

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Agree and disagree.

  1. Mind flay channel is downright bad. You won’t have the global in a real game to cast that.
  2. You can run the Psychic Link, Death proc build but that’s just pad dmg and no punch. You need deep dampen to take down a warlock
  3. The Big Mind Blast build is also not viable either - you won’t get the perfect storm to land one big Mind Blast and honestly it doesn’t really hit that hard…
  4. The summoning thing from beyond is a 1-min proc and it hits 12k per cast… Honestly pretty weak…
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You don’t - you need a Rogue, Feral, WW, DH to do that for you. Just keep on living buddy.

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Totally - it’s more than fine. Spriests can do well in most match-ups, as long as it’s not Lock/Ele, Lock/Mage, DH/DK, Lock/DK.

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Actually - that’s prob going to be half of the ladder…

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It’s ok.

You can especially with a double caster comp.

Play with something that also has rot like an aff or ele. Or insane sustain like a dh or fury and it’ll be fine.

It’s not great but it’s not terrible especially with the instant damage build. The point is you’ve got a number of builds that can give you good damage profiles in various ways while also working with a number of comps.

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Nobody is good into demo lock atm. But saying sp is especially bad kinda trippin. Hell their insane damage lets u pump catharsis on their allies and just gib them. Stop makin sp sound weak.

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Can’t you just fear the pet and stun/silence on your go so they can’t press their buttons and stop stuff?

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For you. Then you lose potential CCs on healer, which allows them to free-heal through your damage. Dispel is still a thing if you are not playing with an Aff.

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Not just that You can use ur root on their pets. And its super obnoxious for them to do anything. I actually love rooting demo pets. U can also proc fear 15% damage with mind bender off their pets. U dont have to use it as a stun on the lock

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Well said. But no one is going to claim their class is strong… I’d argue we need Greater Fade back, won’t you agree with that?

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The way you had this all laid out in the original post was as if you were 1v1’ing cuz teammates can dispel curse, stop banish, make lock use pact before psy, etc. I think it gets kinda messy trying to lay out a 3v3 match over the forums though so not sure it’s worth diving into all of that.

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No. i wouldn’t. Honestly ied rather they Nerf our survival. nerf catharsis and fix our mana a bit. Our mana feels pretty bad. I legit dont take mass dispel anymore because with 90% of my stuff costing mana as shadow, i feel i get one off a shuffle on beta. Hell if u wanna have a MD ready u can barely even be allowed to purge. But our defensive needs a kick in the nethers. We can play so bad and not die. You can drop Improved MG and actually take shield. PWL AND SWAP. to 100% never die.