How long will Spriest be meta?

I got berated really hard in a 16 for being feral, not the first time a Shadow priest runs their mouth in a 16+, so I would like to not be made fun of anymore for existing. I am thinking of re-rolling as shadow priest. How long do you think it will stay like this? I don’t want to be berated anymore in instances and noticed that they were doing 3 times the damage of other DPS and not having to worry about hazards.

If it’s at least 6 months I’ll re-sub with the big 6-mo.

Play what you want, just kids talking trash

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Idk what world you’re living in but SP isn’t doing that damage. They’re literally in keys for PI/MD and Mind Soothe. Take away dungeons that require that and they’re back to where they’ve usually been…an afterthought.

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I got bad news about Feral viability for ya pal, it ain’t going up just because Spriests will go down.

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You have done only 1 16 on the druid and it wasnt timed so i guessing it was low dps.
You have multiple low keys at 14 that aren’t timed and your parses in raids are basically grey.

Inspecting your character compared to Top ferals on Raider IO for mythic plus your Talents are wrong, your weapon enchant should be wafting writ for haste buff.
Your missing a socket for your necklace,you don’t have a illimited diamond for 75 primary stat increase and 66 haste/mastery or crit.
You have not a single crafted item for Embellishments too increase your Dps.
Your legs have the low enchant on them should be 177 agility and 131 stam.

I would suggest going to wow head and checking out feral guides,you tube search feral rotations/mythic plus guides.
Feral is fine if played well but from the evidence of your character via raid logs your dps is super low for 435 ivl and your gear.

There is no point character hopping if you cant sustain Dps on a character,you need to learn rotations and your best Stats/rotations enchant etc.

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It’s not. I just want to have an idea of how long the meta will last bc a bonus xp event is coming soon and I want to make an investment that will reward me for a very long time.

If you look at OP’s raid logs the Spriest could well be doing 3 times their Dps,since their single target is super low.

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I had an SPriest go off on our tank in a +12 (I still have Wyrm gear to upgrade) because he had the audacity of pulling a few extra mobs. This was after an unfortunate wipe where one of our DPS bailed.

We still made time but man they were worked up over those extra mobs.

Anyway moral of the story is play what you want, let jerks be jerks and go about your business. You have tools to handle those.

Probably right up to the day I start playing again, and break mine out of mothballs. On that day (mark it down) the nerf bat will fall heavily on his head. Happens every time.

Rerolling FotM without learning everything that makes it FotM just makes for misery all around.

Improve, become a better player, play the spec you like and learn to play it well. That will get you ten times farther than attempting to chase the meta.

I knew one that would get DPS envy and reroll every few weeks much to the dismay of the team, but because they didn’t have the knowledge or muscle memory for what they were rerolling to, they were always underperforming and it was a cycle where the player was hamstringing themselves and looking for easy solutions rather than learning.

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I don’t think the issue is that the OP plays Feral.
The Op’s raid parses are super low for a 435 ivl,guessing was a Dps issue
They are also specced wrong for mythic plus.
They are missing sockets on neck,missing best leg enchant,have zero crafted items with embelishments for Dps increases,wrong weapon chant,no illimited diamond.

Players make posts like this all the time and often they are the issue not the person who might of said something over low Dps.
If your going too run group content at least be specced correctly and have the item upgrades too maximize your Dps too complete the content your queuing for.

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Until I start playing one.

:face_with_hand_over_mouth:

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You’re trying really hard to bring closure to this thread. Are we starting to uncover something?

Btw, the neck sockets comment is troubling. I already have all the sockets that the neck will allow. Where are you getting this data? Are you sure it’s reliable?

16 is trash content. even 23 is causal level.
donno why people want spriest even in 16s? just dont play with toxic animals and join 20s? people are more chilled here and have mostly a clue about classes…
we rolled some 17 keys yesterday and i was here with my causal aug. we had random dds. no fire mage or spriest and keys was super ez. we timed them with ++.
people was causal and they dont even have portals.

toxic animals are mostly in low keys. i join 17 in pugs only if there are 2900-3k players. and i am not kidding. and 20s i play only with 3k people. and there are more then enough such groups in europe.

they will ruin spriests, fire mages, tank druids, holy paladins to the ground. dont worry. i bet it will happen with s3 start.
its same braindead strategy like they did in diablo3 to keep people busy somehow. so they dont have to produce real content.

They probably checked your armory page which shows you logged out with only two gems in your neck.

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Because that’s the max gemslots allowed with the best quality enchants on that neck. I wanted to add more and there was an error. Do you really know what you’re talking about?

Im actually trying too help you improve your Dps by pointing out whats missing on your character in regards too talents,gear and enchants.
As too the necklace the 3 star item enhancements are able to be added too a 437,i have multiple necklaces at 437 all of them i added 3 sockets.
Anyways you do you,can only point out what i see as missing on your character,but cant really blame people if they point out low Dps in keys,when ferals are totally fine for the content your doing and pull decent numbers.Peace goodluck with it.

Look at my neck. It has 3 gem slots. Please don’t insult me while claiming you know better.

Edit: To get the third slot, you use a T3 tiered medallion setting. For slots 1 and 2, it is cost effective to use two T2 tiered medallion settings. Has been that was since DF launch.

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Who is berating you for being feral? Feral is actually a good M+ spec. Not great, but you can do some insane damage and utility all the way through 20 keys. Even higher than that, although I haven’t done so myself.