Something I noticed playing as a void elf shadowpriest, reveling in my class fantasy, was that focused will and to a lesser extent power word: shield, visually detracted from my shadow revelry due to their “holy” appearance. It looks odds as a shadowpriest getting whacked by a mob to then have holy glyphs spinning around you. Power word: shield is a staple to priests, but can we shift the look to be shadow / void colored? What do other folks think and have you felt this same way?
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I fully agree. I don’t get why they don’t change it. They did it for mages, so why can’t they do it for priests?
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Just make a new, but mechanically identical passive, that uses shadow effects rather than holy.
Call it “Insane focus” or something. Maybe “Insensate insanity”
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all they have to do is change the name to hate bubble but keep it mechanically the same and color it purple.
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Focused Will is fine. It sounds pretty neutral.
Also, Shadow and Discipline only having one stack of Focused Will while Holy has two stacks supports the fantasy of Holy’s piety giving more stacks, and that Shadow and Discipline, no matter what, are still priests.
Totally agree it’s out of place. I’d like for it to be replaced altogether, maybe with another life drain of some sort.
This. No idea why they didn’t do this when they were altering mage shields for class fantasy.
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My full support on this idea. I have asked for this before as well. 100x YES!
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Yeah I’m on board 100%
Feels weird i’m going into void form, tentacles coming out of me while shooting void bolts everywhere then I pop a shield and get the holy spell effect.
I feel the same for the Life grip and the levitate spell. I wish they could be void/shadow themed for SP priests.
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I want them to kill it and replace it with something else. I’d love the idea of a variant of Vampiric Embrace replacing it, instant-cast debuff with 10-15 second duration, grants decent self healing to you based on damage done(maybe minor for allies too?).
Alternatively, I’d love them to kill off or make baseline most of the talents, then add ones that replace your shadow abilities with holy spells. I’d love playing a holy caster or a holy/shadow caster DPS, though I might be alone there.
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@blizzard, please revise the holy effects present for shadowpriests. It kills our fantasy. Kthnx! <3
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In an upcoming expansion about class fantasy rather than spec fantasy I can’t see them doing this, however I agree it should be done.
To be fair they should probably double the amount of glyphs in the game to give players a ton more choice for their spell effects.
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I feel they should appeal to the aesthetic of the race, of updating the following:
- Void Elves: Having Holy Spells be of a shadowy visual.
- Lightforged Draenei: Shadow Spells to be of a light visual.
- Lightforged Deathknights: To have the tattoos & their symbol to be an aerie blue/green hue (Necromatic vibes).
I feel appealing to the race-class fantasy would generally be a ‘must’ and show that they genuinely care about the writing and fantasy of the game.
A lot of people rave on “WhO cArEs aBoUt LoRe?!” but many, if not most of us in fact do.
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- Void Elves: Having Holy Spells be of a shadowy visual.
- Lightforged Draenei : Shadow Spells to be of a light visual.
If they did this it should be in the form of glyphs that anyone can use.
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No.
With those two, it’s cannon that either would explode if they used the opposing force. So seeing a holy Void Elf or a Shadow Lightforged – Is a literal kick in the nards to lore, as if they could give a Kodo’s Dung about it. I’m not stating it should be an option for those two races. I’m stating it should be an unchangeable feature of absolution. Like Void Elves having a purple hued skin. Just part of what you get along with the race.
If they had something inscription could make (Like a glyph) that was 'This item begins a quest!' and it allows both those features - But explains how it’s cannon / possible in terms of lore, that I’d be okay with – Sort of like the ‘The Codex of Xerrath’ for Warlocks (To give them green / fel flames), but a priest alternative that’s made by a profession.
Discipline spells should have their own element. The whole concept of discipline is balance between shadow and light afaik, therefore I think there should be an element that sums the two. Even if anathema, mages did have frostfire bolt, didn’t they?
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Well, Penance with the glyph is both shadow and light same time and looks pretty neat. Wish there were more glyphs like that.
mages did have frostfire bolt, didn’t they?
I miss FFB. 
I think it would look cool but having our shield in a different school of magic is nice. If they make the shield shadow magic we’d be locked out of casting it when were shadow locked. Thats what happened to mages when they made all their shields spec specific.
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I was about to create a new post, and noticed you already did, back in 2019. It is absurd Blizzard has done nothing about it yet. All they have to do is just create one glyph that converts holy/ light effects to shadow for some of these spells, like power word: shield, fortitude, levitate, etc. It breaks my immersion and contradicts my transmog and shadowform when light effects show on my shadow priest.
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You don’t have to go very far. They do alter Halo and Divine Star to match Shadow.
Also, once more… I’m asking for Levitate without sparkles. A Glyph would do!
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