Ive been playing hunter DH and warrior for years and decided to go ahead and level up a shadow priest and a warlock to try some caster DPS
The amount of stuff on the ground to dodge feels like I can never get anything off, and having to stand and cast… by the time the cast is done everything is dead or mostly dead (heroic and M2)
BM hunter with all of its problems feels infinitely better than having to chase behind a pull, then plant, then Shadow Crash… theeen you can start DPSing
Blizz has stated that they don’t want shadow having a lot of instant spells and procs. Casters have a higher skill ceiling than melee. Shadow pumps, it’s just IMO a bad design that’s not very fluid now, yes the rotation is easier but it’s just poop IMO. Good luck
Once you get use to it being a caster is superior
its not just you, its really tough to find a good caster now, the current dev team sucks at designing them on top of just the sheer amount of anti-caster mechanics in the game now.
I said the exact same thing earlier and my friends all replied “lol spriest is S tier”
Yeah, sure, the tuning makes it s-tier. The core design philosophy is terrible though. Removing instant casts goes directly against the direction of WoW. Even rando mobs in DF have numerous abilities designed to force you to move, and we’ve taken a huge step backwards and are now forced to hardcast.
Dragonflight casters almost all seem to be going in two directions: limited to no mobility and long ramp up time. Neither are fun. Probably why I log in very little anymore.
Casters are WOW’s easy mode = YAWN.
I disagree and I guess so do you broseph. Good luck on your ventures friend!!!
Blizzard hates casters and wants to make them quit the game. Shadow has a lot less ramp up time than some other specs but is it fun? I don’t really think so, but that’s just my opinion. It definitely can do damage a whole lot faster than destro warlock which takes ages to get any damage out, all while you’re moving every 2 seconds for whatever crap is thrown on the ground at you.
I guess I would just describe the game as annoying now, not particularly fun as a caster. I was hoping S2 would be better but if anything it’s actually worse in dungeons.
They forgot to pass the memo to the encounter design team, it seems.
Not just Shadow, it’s symptomatic for other specs as well… Just see their horrible perception of Demonology in the PTR, or how they wanted to shove Stellar Flare for boomkins.
At least mages got rid of RoP, but then we see Demo. It seems that they move one step forward and then 2 steps backwards.
How come devastation evokers get to cast while moving though 
bcz of the 25yrd range, u kinda dont wanna be in that world lol