Please. Bring back devouring plague! I was main priest until legion release, i played mage in legion and bfa because i don’t like the void form. I miss the old shadow priest 
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Please void void form.
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I mean - not exactly good form to ask for something other people might enjoy to be outright removed. Devouring Plague was fun, sure. Void form is fun too. Just because you don’t enjoy it doesn’t mean some of us don’t. Classes and iterations change. If you don’t like something, move on.
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That’s good advice. 
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So we miss things being removed and are now asking for more things to be removed. ok.
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Yeah, that’s perfect advice.
Your playstyle is your own. Trying to force others in your mold is not only rude and insipid, it’s what causes real life wars.
Live and let die.
Since I wasnt around during pandaria/legion/draenor, what was the old devouring plague like? The only one I remember is the undead priest spell back in vanilla/TBC.
I, too, hate void form, and shadow priest in general feels really bad right now. Hell, priest in general feels pretty poorly designed IMO.
I just want old Shadowform back as a glyph option. I despise new Shadowform.
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Devouring Plague has had two separate iterations.
The first was the undead priest-specific racial (back when we had those). It was a disease that the undead could put on a target that’d leach life and do shadow damage, if I remember right.
The second iteration of devouring plague became class wide for all races where shadow priests had a mechanic known as shadow orbs. Upon collecting three (which was the max, generated by mind blast) you could put devouring plague on the target. It was a short duration, but very hard hitting disease / dot that did big damage and leached from the target. It was a moderately effective heal as well.
I think this would be the perfect example of why, “class skins,” are needed.
The OP liked being a shadowpriest.
More recent players enjoy surrendering to the void via voidform.
Why can’t both exist?
Same class and abilities only renamed and reskinned.
A demonology warlock could be reskinned as a necromancer; summoning undead minions as opposed to demons.
An elemental shaman could be reskinned as a tidesage with minor tweaks to spell skins and descriptions.
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Thanks for the explanation.
So, why not just change one of the shadow priest talents to remove void form and instead spend your insanity on devouring plague?
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These are very different than what the OP is asking for. The OP is asking for a previous iteration of shadow priest from a mechanics perspective. A skin would just change how things look. The OP is asking for a previous iteration that is balanced around different times / mechanics / metas.
If everybody took your advise the azerite system wouldn’t of had the essence system introduced to help fix how bad it is.
WoW is always moving forward, but its not beyond Blizz to reintroduce old abilities as talents.
Hmmm. My solution won’t help class mechanics… 
I didn’t want to be rude. Im sorry. I miss the old shadow priest with orbs and devouring plague, it’s sad how they killed my favorite spec in the game.
I get that. Let’s get a little creative, shall we? How about if they brought back devouring plague (albeit in a different form) through a talent or something like that when the whole unpruning thing happens that Blizz has talked about?
Juggling two forms of resources isn’t totally unheard of either. DK’s do it with runes and runic power. Instead of asking for void form to be removed, why don’t we simply ask for devouring plague to be returned in some manner? That way you get your favorite spell / resource management back while also keeping what we have currently.
Adding class depth isn’t a bad thing. We should seek to improve upon what we have. Void form isn’t gonna go anywhere. Blizz likes it. They want spriests to have that niche of high dmg vs. high maintenance. It makes spriest a high skill cap spec where it can shine if people play it right, kind of like how Surrender to Madness worked back in early Legion.
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Oh yay, another boring mechanic that is like many other classes? Pass.
What?
lol no
anyways, what they should do is allow a glyph for MoP shadowform. That looked awesome.
I am confused. Devouring Plague was Undead racial priest spell from classic. What that has to do with the void / shadow form?