I hate Shadowform, I dont like being a purple blob on the screen. I know a lot of people feel the same so why not make a glyph that removes the effects when active? The glyph that limits it hardly does so. On top of that, there hardly even are any glyphs, meanwhile inscription is the least played profession (wonder why)…
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I love Shadowform.
However, I’m all for more cosmetic Glyphs.
I’m in agreement that there should be a Glyph to opt out of it.
I also think there should be a Glyph that makes Shadowform more “sinister”. Like (weeb allusion to Goku) Purple Super Saiyan Aura.
Dark Ascension needs to be animated like Apotheosis but Purple obviously. Glyph or new design.
Glyph of Spirit Apparitions options - Ravens, Shadow Orbs, Shadow Spears, Shadow fiends, None to name a few ideas.
Shadowfiend Glyphs should apply to Mindbender or Have Mindbender specific Glyphs.
Again… all for it.
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Always this. I disagree with taking Shadowform away but if people want a glyph for cosmetic appeal sure why not. Also give up a way to use the old shadow form which is so much better than the smokey new one.
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It sucks that we won’t see an increase in quality of the glyph system until there is some major outcry which likely wont happen. “We’re listening” my furry buttocks.
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It’s worse than that I am afraid. Shadowform’s new visuals now cause actual and real optical / eye damage for people with light sensitive vision. This is because when someone is flying on their mount with the Shadowform spell effect active, the purple smoke “puffs” that are a part of the effect, trail the character.
The result is several puffs of black / purple that follow behind the player character and due to the speed of flight, strike the screen before they dissipate. That in turn causes rapid screen flashing, and eventually eye-twitching and optical fatigue.
Several friends of mine have been complaining about it on Discord for months now, and I’ve tested / seen it. It seems like Zereth Mortis and it’s inherent brightness, really makes it obvious also.
Blizzard needs to expedite some form of turning off Shadowform completely, not because a Glyph is needed but simply because it is causing medical issues and they state one of their goals is to accommodate handicapped players.
This issue is right up there with motion sickness being caused in Maw of Souls due to the background effects. I mean… if your game is causing some players to experience extreme eye-strain due to a particle effect, the effect either needs to change or more realistically a means to turn it off is necessary.
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Oh snap! TBH I didnt mention this in the OP but honestly…One of the reasons is it gives me a headache looking at it as I fly O.O
Other people are having this problem?
Would love to see a change implemented. I always noticed that I felt off after a while of playing my spriest and flying around. I didn’t know that this was something else other players were experiencing.
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They won’t ever let you opt out of the visual of shadow form because of pvp.
it’s absolutely not a solution but if you’re having trouble with the cloud puffs, i heavily recommend zooming out more and angling your camera above your character so that they aren’t hitting the camera dead on, should hopefully help a little
i hope we do get more glyphs for stuff like this though, genuinely
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reduce the graphics and use the heartsbane grimoire to fix shadowform; temporary fix until they add the glyph.(and I’m not using a glyph on shadowform)
What does PVP have to do with it?
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Shadow form is a visit so that needs to be there because of the conditions of shadow form.
The same way boomkin form won’t ever go away for the same reasons.
I’m kind of confused by this still, are you saying it’s so players can identify who the shadow priest is?
But it did, there’s literally a glyph that changes it to look like something else
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It’s so players can identify shadow form is up.
It’s still an extremely noticeable form to differentiate between boomkin form and caster non shapeshift form.
Oh, I see. But shouldn’t Shadow form always be up anyway?
Yeah, unlike boomkin form you can heal in shadowform now, outside of the initial figuring out the spec of the priest, shadowform doesn’t really convey any additional info anymore about your opponent’s capabilities
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This game is in desperate need of more glyphs, and I’m not sure why they’ve stopped adding them.
I’d love to get a glyph that replaces shadow form with our old ravens from MoP, or a small purple eye that floats around you at all times, that way you don’t have to see the purple smoke, but can still see that you’re in the form.
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Someone can always accidentally go out of it which would make them a prime swap target.
I guuuuuess?
I don’t know, doesn’t really seem like reason enough. I mean, i dont even have Shadowform keybound
I mean, outside of the 10% damage buff there’s not much different about jumping an spriest in or out of shadowform, nor is this a good reason to keep it lmao
if Shadowform still provided armor or some form of DR like it used to i could MAYBE see that argument, but it also had moments where the priest would intentionally drop it to off heal, so it made more sense then anyways.
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