I’ve hated PI from the moment we first go it. Our dmg is already tied up with our CDs, adding another CD didn’t help. Nerfing PI only made it worst. Please just get rid of it.
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I wish they would just get rid of Twin Suns of the whatever and let it be a personal CD only.
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I really don’t understand why Dark Ascension and Void Eruption have cast times. The only personal CDs in the game with this weird handicap attached to them.
So Shadow Priests have to hit that button with a cast time, then target a teammate with Power Infusion, THEN we can start attacking. It’s just super clunky for no reason.
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Back in Cataclysm, Dark Archangel (Todays Dark Ascension) didn’t have a cast time (but it did require stacks of Dark Evanglism to be consumed).
While in Legion (Voidform inception with the combined spell Void Eruption) always required a cast time unless you took Void Origins in PvP.
Void Eruption delt damage. So… my conclusion is that by default, they didn’t want shadow to do damage instantly when you use your damage cooldown. So instead of separating Void Eruption from Voidform (I think they should for multiple reasons regardless) it was just easier to force a cast time on Dark Ascension in order to not have a clear difference of disparity between the two cooldowns with one having a cast time while the other does not.
I think they did this because it was near pencils down when they finally got both cooldowns done with the talent tree as a choice node between cooldowns.
This is another example of the failure of Voidforms with its constricting amalgamation of multiple types of spells that “kinda” worked when Voidform was used more often and had no cooldown but is just backwards in its version today with the fact that the best part of Voidform being Void Eruption as far as visual ascetics go, but then being used once per Voidform with Voidform being a long cooldown.
I think if Voidform was just a form shift to do damage differently and didn’t actually DO damage going into it, it would qualify to be a cooldown that is instant cast and by extension, make Dark Ascension instant cast as well.
I hope they unravel this intertwined jumbled mess of spells and cooldowns going into 11.0 but I’ve been disappointed before so… we shall see.
But yea, I blame Voidform.
Edit:
Honestly, I think Voidform should change your Mind Spells to be empowered and do something different similar to Demon Hunters Metamorphosis changing Chaos Strike to Annihilation and Blade Dance to Death Sweep.
Some spitballing ideas…
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Mind Flay = Void Flay: Deals damage on the move OR makes your Vampiric Touch, Shadow Word: Pain deal damage again each time Mind Flay (Void Flay) deals damage.
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Mind Blast = Void Bolt: (Basically take the 2 spells now and combine the best features of both into the same spell).
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Mind Sear = Void Sear: (Obviously this requires Mind Sear being brought back, as a choice talent with Psychic Link IMO) Becomes the 10.0 version of Mind Sear with it dealing damage more quickly at the cost of insanity while normal Mind Sear is like it used to be as just another filler.
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Mind Bender = Void Fiend: Sends a Void Bolt effect to every target each time they are damaged by your Void Spells.
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Mind Spike = Void Spike: All targets within 10 yards of your target receive 5% more damage taken from your Void Spells for 10 seconds, stacking up to 3.
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Mindgames = Void Manipulation: Reapplies itself after the duration or bounces to a nearby target. Can only refresh itself once per target.
I’m sure better and more interesting ideas could be utilized, but the goal in essence is to just empower Mind Spells.
Although, I already have my own ideas on how to improve your Mind Spells via the Y’Shaarj Idol and connecting each 7 primary Sha entities to Each main Mind Spell we have alongside adding a 7th Mind Spell to act as our displacement ability to swap positions with your party member. But that’s a different concept.
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Which is a dumb philosophy for Blizz to have seeing as how literally Dragonrage from Evokers spits out Pyres, and it’s instant. Void Origins should have always been baseline. Now we don’t even have it as a PvP talent at all.
I’m honestly just going to swap to my Druid and gear Balance until Blizzard finally decides to help Shadow and Holy out in PvP. It’s too infuriating and depressing.
Speak for yourself, I love PI
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