“We’ve been hard at work listening to feedback.” - Ion Hazzikostas
Uh. No, ya haven’t. There’s been a huge movement on the priest forums about Voidform for a while now. Ion, YOU said from the feedback of Legion alpha and beta, there wasn’t enough time for a rework, so we waited. BfA comes around, and still no significant changes. Now, SL is coming out of alpha, and still nothing but a bandaid “fix”, if you even want to call it that.
Can we PLEASE get some acknowledgement that we’re at least being heard? We don’t like Voidform. We’ve told you that for four years, and from the looks of things, it’ll be another two years before anything MIGHT be done about it.
Please, stop treating certain specs like the red headed step child you just don’t want to deal with.
What’s with people calling for the removal of content, especially content that adds immersion and flavor to the game, instead of asking for positive changes and fixes?
It’s not going to happen. I agree that SPriest isn’t in a great spot right now in terms of fluidity and feel, and they also just feel subpar in any form of content that isn’t raiding and very high end keys. But they aren’t removing a mechanic they’ve been trying to get right for 4 years. If you don’t like it play a different class, because Voidform isn’t going anywhere, and many people like it.
I’d like void form to be more distinct from shadow form (shadow form ought to be much more tame, visually. It’s sort of over the top for a form you’re in all the time), and I’d like to be able to cancel void form to save some of the insanity.
Actually, they could go ahead and delete shadow form altogether. What’s the point?
I love the look of it, but mechanically it’s just so annoying. My favourite version of shadow was (I think) in WoD. Whichever it was where we had that talent that shifted the emphasis onto our direct damage spells rather than dots. That was cool.
I dunno, I think the addition of devouring plague will help a bit. My biggest gripe with insanity and VF is that I all too often found myself sitting on a full bar, waiting for the ideal time to spend it. So it just sat there going to waste. Being able to chunk some out here and there will be good. This could work.
I’m against void form simply because it’s impossible to balance it so that people in bis gear don’t shred meters while people in less desirable gear who want to use it as an off spec, world content where mobs die fast, or just hit 120 aren’t bottom of the barrel.
I highly doubt they can make the spec feel good to play pre-bis gear in non-raiding content without having the high end players be way above everybody else.
Shadowform is ugly now. It used to be good, but they changed it and now it sucks. The glyph doesn’t even help anymore as the really bad part is the awful swirly crap all over your character. It literally makes me feel unwell. It has the same look as the weird blind spots I get in my vision when I’ve got a migraine coming on.
Also yeah as stated above, it doesn’t do anything! It’s literally just “remember to activate this when you rez or you’ll do less damage”. Just bake the damage in!
How would Blizzard know? They’ve never had a poll, and if going by the class forums and class development forums are any indication, most don’t like it.
I wouldn’t exactly mind VF still being in game, but I believe it should be a talent and CD for specific times, not a base class mechanic that has more wrong with it than not.