I’m fine with Shadowfiend being locked behind Shadow Word: Death and Mindbender being tied to Voidform, but the duration of both summons feels far too short.
Shadowfiend should last 10 seconds and Mindbender should last 20. Right now there isn’t enough time to get meaningful casts off with Inescapable Torment, so the interaction ends up feeling weak.
The 40% chance to summon Shadowfiend also feels bad. It should be at least 60% so the mechanic feels more consistent.
Changes like this would open up different playstyles in the talent tree and reduce the heavy reliance on Psychic Link for AoE damage.
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The entire left side of the shadow talent tree is unplayable in every type of content. Very poorly designed. The extremely short duration of the summons is a big part of that. Making SW: D not able to proc anymore removed a fun synergy and viability. Shadow priest is truly the red headed step child. It’s class design is a complete mess with zero direction.
A possible solution would be giving back SW: D procs and making Inescapable Torment a choice node with Psychic Link but it would have to hit a lot harder.
Classic WoW really grew on me because spells actually do damage and mean something. Retail WoW spells feel like a chore.