Shadow AoE

[Orsen-2243646 (Orsen)]

Continuing the discussion from Midnight: Curse of Ula’tek PTR Development Notes:

@Linxy

Shadow

• Developers’ notes: For Shadow in Curses of Ula’tek, we’re intending to improve Voidform gameplay and are adding an additional source of multi-target damage to reduce the spec’s reliance on Psychic Link in AoE situations. For Voidform, we’re updating Void Volley to be a limited use ability that can be used a set number of times during Voidform which leaves more room in the rotation while giving you the chance to use it at its most opportune moment. We’ve also updated Voidform support talents to have more noticeable effects to align with our goals.
• New Talent: Shadeburst – Shadowy Apparitions that float towards your primary target explode, dealing Shadow damage to all enemies within 8 yards. Damage reduced beyond 5 targets.
• Improved Voidform has been redesigned – Voidform increases your spell damage by an additional 5% and grants 2 additional uses of Void Volley.
• Ancient Madness has been redesigned – Shadow Word: Madness increases your Haste during Voidform by 2% and increases its duration by 1.5 seconds, stacking up to 5 times. When Voidform ends, the Haste lingers and decays over 10 seconds.
• Voidform now grants 3 uses of Void Volley instead of Void Volley having a cooldown during Voidform.
• Power Word: Shield absorb increased by 25%.
• Phantom Menace has been removed.
• Hero Talents
  • Archon
    • Focused Outburst has been redesigned – Void Volley deals 15% increased damage and Shadow Word: Madness casts during Voidform unleash a Void Volley at your target.
    • Resonant Energy has been slightly redesigned – Creating a Halo increases your spell damage by 2% for 10 seconds, stacking up to 4 times.

Continuing the discussion from Midnight: Curse of Ula’tek PTR Development Notes:

@Pejn-dalaran

Agree
I just find it so strange that Blizzard pinpointed two issues for Shadow

Unfortunately, they didn’t pinpoint anything. I’ve been screaming into the void since DF season 2 but they completely failed to understand the point.

• Nobody asked to make Archon even stronger than it already was compared to Voidweaver. Casting Void Volley off SW:M in Voidform is just OP you can just stack up on Insanity and burst players down, thereby pushing yet ANOTHER class into a CD centric feast famine playstyle.
• Shadowy Insight should turn Mind Blast into Void Blast for Voidweaver. Void Blast is supposed to be Voidweavers signature ability, but currently we’re just trying to cram out all of our abilities before Entropic Rift runs out. Stop forcing Feast/Famine playstyles onto every… single… spec…
• Allow Shadowy Insight to accumulate 2 charges.
• Just make Void Volley its own ability, not tied to Voidform. Everyone thinks it looks cool.
• Void Form should just be a Power Infusion Shadow cosmetic Variant cast on the Spriest when we us PL. We can keep the related talents for those who like coodown centric playstyles.
• They took my exploding ghost idea but without removing the very problem it was meant to solve. Which means everything will require a nerf because Psychic Link still can’t be balanced. PL needs to go away forever.
• DoTs need to be castable at will. Only 8 or 6 targets must be allowed to be DoTed at a time, otherwise both DoTs and Exploding Ghost will be nerfed into oblivion because “Math!”
• Why isn’t Shadow Form a Visage style cosmetic Spell already? Have options to have it activate only in combat, stay on all the time, or turn off entirely. Remove its requirement to cast SW:M. Every PvP players is tired of having to reactivate it after rezzing mid battle.
• Mobility… I really hate to have to offer specific and balanced solutions to this problem only to have it completely ignored again so meh…
• The base Class tree is a mess of barely useful abilities for all 3 specs but Shadow especially.

Curse my obsessive compulsion to point things out, my eyes are going to roll out of their sockets.