Hello, fellow masochists. What is the point of mind blast? It barely hits harder than smite, yet it costs an absurd amount of mana. It doesn’t do the damage absorb anymore, and unless you feel like taking the shadow priest talents in the right side of the tree, you might as well just remove it from your bars. Feels terrible.
tl;dr: either buff mind blasts damage to justify it costs 1/4 of our mana bar or reduce the cost.
I always try to hit mind blast after radiance because I chose stolen psyche. Not sure if I would use it much if I didn’t go that route. I also use it as a shadow spell when pinging back and forth between shadow and holy for the boost. If I didn’t have either of those things, it would probably be benched.
Pretty much.
Unless you are going, shadow cov, stolen psyche, expiation and TE, there is little reason to press MB, when considering its cost.
This. If you select those talents- it hits pretty hard
I feel like I use Mind Blast less for it’s value and more for the sake of cycling TE when Schism and Mindgames are on cd. I do not believe the raid build utilizes it because it focuses more on using smite for mana efficiency, but it is useful for the m+ builds that run Shadow Covenant.
Personally I’ve been considering a build that doesn’t take PTW, so always has shadow bonus TE active with SW:P, which will reduce MB quite a bit. And it’s largely because penance does so much damage right now.
Mindblast to me hits like a truck especially if you take Expiation talent the added 7-8k (11-12k Crits) Shadow damage ontop of the flat 12-13k(21-22k crits) Mindblasts really Addes Up especially if they both crit? Thats a lot of Damage and Healing from atonement and its Usually a Life saver in situations just cause of how Hard it hits
Most wont dispute this for sure. Specing into MB talents makes it worthwhile but it just sucks that outside of that, the button is baseline worthless. At that point you might as well make MB itself a talent because there is virtually no point in it unless you go right side on the tree.
i can agree with this outside of the taking certain talents like Expiation that buff it, it really don’t do much which does kind of suck. I don’t know what they could to make it better they could revert the change to mind blast giving it that Damage Absorbtion thing it used to have and have it based upon the amount of Targets with atonement like Lights Wrath in a way? But then that may make it a little too complex and complicated when it comes to scaling and Numbers
This is the value of MB for me too. Disc is wanting for a shadow DPS skill while running TE. I wish we had a way to weave so we could always utilize TE, but as it is, there is a small downtime while we’re waiting for shadow cds.
Rename PTW and make it shadow-flame.