The Alpha Class feedback forum shows otherwise.
Priest class feedback forum has more support in concerns with Void Form and the general state of Shadow in SL with a massive amount of likes compared to the rest of the class forums.
Druid is 2nd place with over 100 likes for top post. Priest has over 400 likes and multiple 100+ likes posts.
Yet those classes and those posting and liking are not considered in the “minority” from your perspective i’m betting correct? If they are then I guess its the minority voices that blizzard are listening to (at least when it comes to other classes) as whether you like or dislike x about your class, it should be represented with a post and backed by likes on the official SL alpha class feedback thread and I challenge you to find a “positive” void form post with enough likes to overshadow the negative void form posts. You wont find it.
That’s the thing though, we have discussed this for years from the Legion Beta to current times and blizzard have yet to fix it. It has only gotten worse with each iteration from Legion to BFA to SL. They have spent 4+ years and its only getting worse, not better.
The only way to “Fix” it is to remove its identity as it currently exists mechanically. Because simply put, Ramp up mechanics DO NOT WORK in how wow is deigned.
This has been discussed at length but for quick little nibbles of examples…
- Any intermission phase of fights benefit all classes except for Priest because they have extra time that their DPS CD’s get to finish cooling down. Priest on the other hand, it just resets our ramp and we have to start all over again. Most times its resets right before we hit our max potential or just as we do.
Its like standing up for the first time and getting knocked down instantly while everyone else is running around having fun. - Any fights with movement causes Void Form to be reset at worse or cut severally short at best as any movement beyond a a single GCD causes the entire specs damage to plummet back down to zero and forced to start up again. This is because we can fit a GCD worth of instant cast Void Bolt. But everything else we need to hard cast in order to prolong the passive increasingly decaying nature of Insanity Drain and thus knock you out sooner then expected.
- Every GCD is used to build insanity be it to get into Void Form or to stay in Void form. Meaning if you use any priest utility spell (we have a lot) then you are punished for DPS efficiency for as not only does it cost a GCD but while in Void Form, it could cascade and cost you MASSIVE amounts of damage as it could lead to a short Void Form window and thus reset all your damage again.
- In PvP, as soon as you enter Void Form, you can easily be silenced, interrupted, feared, stunned and just any CC to force your Void Form to end prematurely and thus heavily cripple your damage potential and you loose access to half of your spec mechanics as for example, Void Bolt is only usable in Void Form. So you cant even cast some of your rotational abilities. This is really bad on Priest because we have no reliable way to Kite, CC, snare, Root etc. We are an easy target to tunnel into and shut down. So in doing so this flawed Void Form mechanic hit us massively when if you compare to Mage or Warlock, Mage can Kite and CC and blink and ice block out of CC. Locks can chain CC and get procs etc from being attacked. Priest get nothing but just have to face tank it.
- If your running a 5 man at the required gear level for the entire team, the priest will always be behind in meters because by the time he is able to start pumping numbers, the mobs are already dead by everyone else. So the priest looks bad by comparison and thus why it has a negative stigma.
Those are just a short list of issues of WHY void form in its current “Identity” as a “Ramp up” mechanic just doesn’t work in the game. Any number tuning will either make the ramp to long and thus be broken or too short and thus be OP. There is no middle ground because there is no hard cap.