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I will be rolling with DK and Priest as my two mains, FOTM crew locking in
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So the latest PTR update gave Focused Will to Shadow (and Disc). Shadow only gets 1 stack so 15% less damage taken when meleeād.
Devouring Plague is going to be kind of the biggest survivability increase though because 50% of the damage it deals heals the S-priest. Itās equivalent to about 10% of your health a cast.
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Shadow has had Focused Will since they removed the Damage Reduction aspect of Shadowform in 8.1.
I must be blind cause I couldnāt find it in my spellbook on retail.
Iāve always been a sucker for dots that heal.
Makes me feel like a god.
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Itās there. Weāve had it for a long time now.
You guys arent very smart are you? Going around claiming your spec is a GOD will ensure it gets a big fat nerf! Keep talking that smack.
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Karen please take your toxicity somewhere else.
Thank you.
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Must admit Iām looking forwards to dotting you a crowd of people, throwing 3 shadow crashes in then teleporting in and dropping a fear bomb is gonna be some hot stuff
Yea, because anyone takes anything seriously on the forums. lawl
I would really like to believe spriest is becoming a god - it was my second main back in 2008 and I am very nostalgic since I have not played it until last Friday. But when I look at wowmeta for BFA spriest is #4 and when I look at wowmeta for Shadowlands spriest is #9 in DPS rankings. Seems like spriest power has actually dropped (relative to other specs.) Can anyone explain the discrepancy between wowmeta and the perception in this thread?
I personally made the thread based off of the overall improvement shadow received.
Not the DPS rankings.4
But shadow is S tier for PVPā¦so technically we are walking gods in pvp again so people talking about that and not specifying could confuse people.
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Shadow priest was fine before. They could have made a few small tweaks like capping the number of voidform stacks, and then the spec could have been buffed without ever getting too strong. I like voidform on live, you rarely have to ever refresh dots because youāre casting void bolt so much and itās fast paced.
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We are pre tuning, shadow TCS including myself are being deliberately vague on performance metrics, and wowmeta is a clickbeta data scraping site that makes unfounded conclusions based on data it does not understand and makes no attempts to.
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Thanks for sharing, I mainly pvp and this video helps.
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So why are they becoming gods? I played my spriest a bit but the gameplay seemed meh for now.
People panic because spriest will actually be able to do stuff in pvp now, as in, be a threatening damage presence. For the past 4 years, even if shadowās damage was overtuned, it was incredibly easy to shut down. Now that itās changed and people have to pay attention to them again, they freak out and claim itās OP lol. I kind of understand, after 4 years of being able to essentially ignore something, any improvement to it will seem wildly unbalanced.
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I think looking at data alone doesnāt show the whole story because in BFA thereās so many RNG based elements revolving around procs. The average person has like 10-12 procs that can trigger between Azerite traits, trinkets, amulet, cloak, etc. There was also a strong emphasis on keeping Void Form up and on fights youāre moving around a lot its a pain to keep up.
Shadowlands looks like its watering down the entire RNG element of stuff to start with which is a good change.
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Iām just glad DP is finally back. Damn I hated Legion spriest and BFA made it even worse.
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