but it also costs insanity…to use in voidform…that they want us to say in for as long as possible…i don’t think they know what they doing anymore
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Right now it’s actually tuned so poorly it doesn’t, but it also doesn’t do anything either. I guess as long as the stack count isn’t lower that doesn’t matter though.
Bliz have made a spell that has to be bad by design to fulfill the purpose they want it to fulfill.
Kung Pow: Enter the fist joke goes here
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This brings me back to my suggestion in another post.
Just make Void Form a talent now that they’re giving us another spender. Void Form will now just be an optional Breath of Sindragosa.
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Watch them do something like “You can’t cast Plague in voidform” to “fix” these flaws we’re pointing out
Then the spell will literally never be used
Who is designing this?
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puts on tinfoil hat
I think whoever designed or thought of void form has all the power atm, and is refusing to give up on their poor baby void form. Even though they’ve failed for years, and have had 2 years since 8.0 to come up with something by SL alpha. But that my friend is just a theory a FIXMYDAMNSPECALREADYTHEORYLIKEWTFDOSOMETHINGWHATDIDIREADWHENIWOKEUPTHISMORNINGDOYOUEVENPLAYTHESPECYOUDESIGNED?!
Classes, including priest have changed a lot over the years. It’s never fun or “fair” losing something you enjoyed. I enjoyed TBC Shadow / MoP shadow / WoD shadow, but like most things in life, they aren’t permanent. Life isn’t fair. But if the Majority agrees it would be a better change, the minority will have to adapt. That’s just how it is.
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Im curious about the implications of it being a 12 SECOND dot and costing insanity, if their purpose is that it used to be on mobs that you wouldn’t want to waste that insanity by going into void form and it last 12 SECONDS can it stack on a mob or will re application just extend its duration, like how much insanity generation are we going to have? To be a competitive decision with void form is it going to take 12 seconds to go into void form? I don’t even think that was a thing in Uldir. Sorry tired not for sure can convey what I want.
Also is it going to be affected by mastery? and what about SHADOW word death is it going to be affected by mastery? All this time and things aren’t even fleshed out.
70+ days of silence and then this, its current datamined values make me feel like its a half thought idea, the wording of the post with Void eruption costing insanity and how SHADOW word death “so it must be something that is mostly used in the outdoor/leveling content” makes it feel like someone just read about the tool tips on SHADOW priest some general feed back of the class AND maybe tried to level the character in leveling gear tried to make some changes to SHADOW priest with minimal effort and time put into it cause that is what has been allotted.
I HATE to say what I’m about to but every time I see all these seemingly hundreds of changes and improvements to character customization and updates, I really even more feel like SHADOW priest are just an after thought at best and currently not worth investing time or recourses in. I really dont want SHADOW priest to be the Warlords of Draenor demonology warlock “we’d rather you not play it”
Start of BFA blizzard kept hinting at a rework/revamp but it would be delayed cause of x reason. We got stuff that made us, to be honest, pretty powerful ,still lacking super desirable utility, but competitive elsewhere as a dps. But all that is going away and going to be left exactly if not worse state with the current changes ( Void bolt rank 2?) that we were in when BFA started.
With all the changes to character customization you obviously want players to have investment in their character, I have been playing SHADOW priest for a Stupid long time. Priest don’t have another dps spec to play as so please don’t make this " we rather you didn’t play it" as we didn’t have time or resources to do what has been known needed for a long time.
I really really don’t wanna go play another Character
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The problem is that Void Eruption does more damage, so you’re still better off casting it and potentially wasting a void form than casting the new Devouring Plague.
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You guys are confusing DP’s purpose its basically a “Exit voidform” button.
the damage is bad the DoT duration is way to long. it does not interact with the rest of the spec and talents at all. if you reapply it on a target you lose on the DoT damage.
the only thing it interact with is insanity bar and VF. they lied and we ate it up. its just a glorified “Exit VF early” button that you can use outside VF.
#removevoidform
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Oh that degenerate play style again from 8.0 that makes Void form useless, lets exit void form so I can erupt again. Quick math it looks like the dot will be expiring just as you generate insanity enough to go into void form again that Is if you do nothing for a global… I think? ROUGH napkin math that is. Seems reminiscent of a clarity of power rotation spanning 16 ish global cooldowns for a full rotation and repeat but I guess whats the point of void form then
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basically, so you would want to weave VE and DP
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They just want us to stop complaining about void form, so they give us a trash spell and throw the name “Devouring Plague” on it in hope that we will be fooled. Hahaha, nice try. #removevoidform and just to make it clear to them as well, because they also said we were not making it clear for them #reworkshadowpriest.
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to me it literally read like a long way to say “Shut the hell up”
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Counter point though: It isn’t fair that we had an incredibly fun spec (and only dps spec on the class) changed to this awful void form abomination. It should have been a new spec or talent or something in the first place.
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