Does anyone here think that blizzard went far enough in terms of simplifying shadow priest as a whole and did they do enough to reduce the button bloat issue?
Shadow priest is fun and it can melt you
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Yet they still can’t/wont fix affliction warlock.
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But the question is has blizzard ease up shadow priest enough for those who want to try it out or want to play it?
It’s fun and everything an Aff Warlock should be.
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I dont find shadow priest hard to play
Its not that complicated at all.
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SP was easy to pick up even before they removed Mind Sear.
No it’s perfect. You can play the super simple version and be fine or get a little deeper into it and eak out some performance.
Aff was doing good season 4 sl. What is wrong with it now? Still not FOMO meta numbers?
It wasn’t hard to do consistently well with aff. You could just never top the charts like destro was.
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i’m still mad they changed void form from how it worked in legion / bfa. imagine playing a spec that rewards actually managing resources.
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its totally fine. if you want a one button class may i suggest FFXIV. that game has been gutted by their devs. (i play both)
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Shadow Crash is so much fun, I love fortified week when all of the trash survives long enough for the build up to kick in.
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WAIT how do you AOE now? I played a bit and didn’t check much, but saw Mind spike where my Mind Flay button was. Seemed to hit hard enough without having to stop and check, though.
Your main source of AoE is from the Shadow Crash talent (with Whispering Shadows also talented), which will apply Vampiric Touch on up to 8 targets and is on a 20 sec CD.
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AOE comes from Psychic Link: 30% of your damage is applied to everything dotted with VT.
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I just started playing it using builds I found for M+. I have like 5 buttons in my base rotation and it’s pretty straightforward. I don’t really understand what people are complaining about, tbh.
It’s nothing like Enh Shaman and its seven billion base rotation buttons.
we need another pass at simplifying shadow priest gameplay. in particular, i recommend removing these buttons: power infusion, mind soothe, mass dispel
It’s better than it used to be. However, I still hate mind games. It’s a PvP ability that becomes a harder hitting mind blast on a longer cooldown in PvE. It doesn’t really add much to the shadow priest rotation. I wish they gave us another damage alternative on the shadow side of the class tree.
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Ohh interesting. So only the Mind Sear part was removed. I’ll check a summary, thank you!
I would guess they’re trialing things with sPriest, and then they’ll move to AffLock
The issue with Aff is it is the only DoT class that actually has to manage its DoTs that much. The fact Vile Taint doesn’t have a cd short enough to maintain Agony is insane when Shadow Crash can maintain BOTH of SPriest’s DoTs for free.
It’s not even the fact VT can’t do it. It’s the fact it is so unbelievably close to being able to is the problem. VT being 40 seconds instead of 30 would honestly feel better because it means you don’t feel scammed having to refresh Agony 5 seconds before it would auto refresh with VT.
Another issue with Aff is the spec does absolute dogwater damage in ST if you use AoE talents. Yeah, the new Doom Blossom buff is cool and so is Grim Reach in AoE. Too bad if you take either you are competing with the tank on a boss because both do literally 0 damage in ST.
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