Everyone agrees that priests should get Door of Shadows as a class talent, but what this forum presupposes is what if they also go soulshape. Isn’t it a shame such a great ability is just gone?
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The issue for me is less about Priest mobility (which is mid-tier), but more so raid boss encounter designs. If Mythic bosses are using knockbacks, roots, etc. that a Priest cannot counter without external help it’s a problem for me. I don’t want to be babysat by an Evoker or Paladin to do a fight that every other class can do.
Stop designing bosses like this then I’m not going to complain about mobility.
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What skill are you referring to that a paladin can babysit you for assistance in mobility mechanics?
Freedom of movement to remove roots.
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Considering our toolkit, i´d not want Door of Shadows. We are literally the worst healer in every regard. Every healspec can do what we do, but better. I do not want a clunky casttime DoS, i want Soulshape, we deserve it. Make it golden, make us hover, i don´t care, give it to us.
I mean some kind of “holy / dark” travel form would be amazing. 
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Ok I was mostly joking before but we’re cooking now. holy and shadow energy forms for travel would go hard
We have speed boosts with Angelic Feather and Body and Soul adding a short speed boost to Power Word: Shield.
Angelic Feather used to be 80% movement speed boost in MoP and then got reduced down to 60% and now 40%.
If they didn’t want us going that fast before then I find it very difficult to think they will just add a new method to move quickly that is not a “Displacement” speed like Door of Shadows or reverse Leap of Faith.
If it was not an issue, they would just increase the speed bonus on what we have now.
So sad to say but I don’t think any more movement speed wise would really change things.
However, what if we combined the 2?
So here are the ingredients…
- Door of Shadows (think of the actual door aspect of it)
- Spectral Guise (you go stealthed but im this case you phase into another realm)
- Void Portals you see in the Void area of Argus and the Void Elves area.
Mix it together and you get…
- Phase Shift
Step through to really of Void. While in this plane, you move 200% faster for 3 seconds but are unable to interact with anything outside of their realm.
Basically, you get to move really fast for a short duration but the drawback is you can’t deal any healing or damage for 3 seconds. But you can move freely within that realm which is essentially just phasing you for short time.
This will provide escapes from damage and danger while granting you the ability to reposition yourself in safety without fear of death be it in PvP or PvE.
Now the argument will be raid frames disappearing in PvP but that is a poor excuse and they should just deal with it or make it so it’s reduced by 50% duration in PvP or something.
Edit:
As I finished the idea, I just recalled that we already have a PvP talent called this and does nearly the same thing but does not grant a speed boost and also does not prevent you from interacting with other players lol.
Step into the shadows when you cast Fade, avoiding all attacks and spells for 1 sec . Interrupt effects are not affected by Phase Shift.