I didnt think it was all that bad until I qued a few lobbies with any melee dps and you just melt so fast you cant even play the game. Even if you manage to get some distance melee mobility is so silly its comical. They may need all that mobility since frost mages can blink them to death but from a shadow perspective it is silly when a warrior sits you for any amount of time. While playing melee I hate when casters blink, port, and root you to death but shadow literally may as well be a target dummy. I used to think warlock life was hard but holy mother shadow is like warlock without impish instincts to save it.
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Should try 3v3 
I bet SP/Caster/Healer is really strong!
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laughs in Windwalker
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Shadow mage!!! Does stupid damage but you have 0 mobility and half the tricks of a real mage. You are the target dummy!!
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Sometimes your greatest advantage in rss is the other guys are uncoordinated too. Making a 3s team robs that advantage
Saying this just goes to show how you have no idea what you’re doing and can’t talk about viability in any fashion since you’re making so many basic mistakes.
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The original developers created spectral guise for the very reason, of the topic of this thread.
While I don’t disagree with you, you shouldn’t have to be an exceedingly talented player to get enjoyment out of 2s and rss.
If anything, this patch is making all shadow priests get a lot better, So when we finally do become balanced everyone will think it’s OP, when in fact people that play shadow all collectively got better
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Unfortunately, shadow priest is one of those specs that is just bad for the game when it’s good. Bad spec design imo. It’s just unbelievably aids to que into when it’s good due to all its instant cc buttons for healers and team utility. Better for the game if its in the dumpster unless they redesign it somehow (which I’m all for).
I think shadow priest is probably the hardest caster idk if I’m alone in this but I swear it’s the only class where the damage output actually varies between bad and good players.
You’ll fight a clueless SP that’s doing 40k dps and downing and then you’ll fight one that holds 120k dps the entire time while they’re being trained
Can’t think of any other spec right now that has such a huge variance in how much skill /comfort affect output
Wouldn’t say it’s weak by any means a good SP especially when paired with a lock is miserable to fight against
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Feral is like that as well , as is DK
you got those DK’s that get past the easy rating and flounder in the higher ratings thinking they are weak has been for multiple of seasons
also I see what you are doing, its not unnoticed nor subtle
Please explain cuz I have no idea
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120k dps while being trained you say,
can you show any proof of this and if so how many kicks were used? what game mode? And if you are letting a SP cast as a DK then doesnt that say more about your choice on what to kick and cc than how good the SP is?
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Sure, I’m not the best and play badly sometimes
Priests have a really low CD cc chain though during their kill windows they ideally lock me down and/or fake a kick before doing this.
You might not understand the concept of sending damage during the cross CC as your account has zero arena achieves on it and at best I can assume you’re talking about SP purely from a random bg perspective?
Unless you’re EU and should just go post in your own region can you explain to me the need to argue about a game mode you don’t participate in? I see this a lot around here and curious does the debate fetish just increase so much that Reddit and Facebook comments don’t do it anymore?
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imagine that
There’s an EU version of the forums
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There’s also other forums for venting, or as you said you could always post to reddit/facebook I’m sure the worldofpvp would love for you to post.
Probably not it’s a bunch of terribad failure to launches like you tbh
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Just watched an SP do this in Ozzy’s stream, while focused by a ret and do in a 2400 MMR lobby
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Do you remember their name?
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